Episode 6

Gardening magazine. With thoughts of fresh posies and sweet smelling summer blooms, Toby Buckland has plans for a cutting garden at Greenacre, full of flowers that can be picked and that will keep on flowering over the summer months. He makes his first sowings of flowers that will bloom within 12 weeks and makes recommendations for varieties that are ideal for cut flower borders.

Spring has truly arrived when one of the wilder members of the pea family, the gorse, is in flower. Carol Klein follows its trail to her own back garden and looks at one of its surprising relatives, the Katsura tree, and takes cuttings from another family member, the Lupin.

The home of one of the best collections of Magnolias is Trewithen gardens in Cornwall and, although they are over a month late in flowering this year, they are now looking absolutely glorious. Alys Fowler gets an extraordinary view of their floral canopy from raised platforms within the garden while finding out about their enduring appeal from head gardener, Gary Long.

Alys also joins Toby at Greenacre and continues work in her forest garden where she explains how some of the edible plants she is putting in will earn their place in the garden, not only by producing great food for us, but by feeding the other plants around them too.