About this episode

David visits Jimi Blake's garden to discuss new plant beds and features guests on garden photography and growing food crops.

As the dry spell continues, David travels to renowned gardener Jimi Blake's Huntingbrook garden in County Wicklow. He finds out how Jimi created three new beds for smaller plants including sedum, linaria and a few rogue sweetcorn. Adam Frost chooses Crocosmia 'Hellfire' as his bulb of the month. Advice from Amy Kelly on the food crops that will save you most money and Anna Hudson answers a question in studio from a listener who has been struggling to grow beetroot for years. Also on the programme, award winning garden photographer Jason Ingram and growing your own lemons from seed. Contact the programme on gardenerscorner@bbc.co.uk

People in this episode

Host: David

Guests: Jimi Blake, Jason Ingram

Topics covered

• garden design
• plant care
• photography
• skincare
• growing food

Keywords

• gardening
• redcurrants
• photographing gardens
• growing lemons
• beetroot

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Crocosmia 'Hellfire', beetroot, lemons, sedum, linaria, sweetcorn

Places: County Wicklow

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