Episode 3

With blossom popping and new green shoots emerging across the garden, Monty is busy with spring and planning ahead for summer. He’s doing a seed-sowing masterclass, cutting back Cornus and dividing ferns to put in the new Woodland Garden.

Frances Tophill is exploring the tiny but expansive world of miniature daffodils at a nursery with hundreds of cultivars. In Llanelli, Sue Kent meets a passionate gardener who has set up her own seed library, helping to preserve varieties of flowers and edibles which flourish in local Welsh soil and beyond.

There’s a florist in West Sussex who specialises in sweet peas and a passionate tomato grower from Wiltshire who loves to grow old heirloom varieties that grew before the 1950s and have been gathered from around the world.