Beechgrove Garden
Beechgrove Garden is a TV show on BBC2. Celebrating the great Scottish garden. Tips and advice to get the most out of your garden, with inspirational ideas from Scotland's most beautiful green spaces. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 35 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in June 2025.
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Beechgrove Garden
George demonstrates how to give the gooseberries a light summer prune and also demonstrates an important June job for anyone who is growing apples.
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With the arrival of June, Beechgrove enters a time of colour, scent and productivity. Lizzie Schofield explores these features as she revisits the herb garden.
May 2025
Calum creates a gardening favourite: a lavender border. Meanwhile, Brian demonstrates a layering technique as a way of propagating new plants from existing stock.
Ruth and Brian keep on top of care and maintenance on projects that were started earlier in the series.
Calum and George take advantage of the changing season to plant out this year’s brassica crop.
Brian continues to develop the new rain garden, an area that is being created as a response to last year’s wet summer conditions, and the pair get to work pruning.
Kirsty is getting ready to plant out the sweet peas that are currently growing under cover, and Brian is developing a rain garden.
April 2025
Brian plants shrubs in the garden to help wildlife, while Ruth starts her own vegetable plot.
George and Calum are potting the onions and shallots that Calum sowed in December, and Calum starts work on his plot for the Beechgrove veg-growing competition.
Brian and Lizzie launch a competition between the Beechgrove presenters to see who can create the most successful vegetable plot of the season.
Carole Baxter and Brian Cunningham review how Beechgrove Garden has survived the winter - what damage did the storms cause, and what plants were lost to January's cold snap?
March 2025
George builds mini cold frames out of recycled materials to see just how productive you can be in a small space.
We visit Starbank Park on the banks of the Forth, where the community have created a grove of flourishing blossom trees in their revived walled garden.
Meet the Scottish gardener whose garden in Alva is made from propagated plants, saved seed and repurposed rubbish.
On the edge of the Lammermuirs and 730ft above sea level, Jackie Fry maintains a beautiful two-acre garden in some very challenging conditions.
November 2024
George Anderson and Carole Baxter tackle viewers' questions from Beechgrove Garden, and there’s a visit to father and daughter gardeners Erin and Joe Armstrong.
September 2024
It’s time to measure and enjoy the fruits of Beechgrove’s efforts as George Anderson and Carole Baxter weigh up the season’s successes.
George and Calum help cut down on those unwanted plant pests - weeds. The pair select varieties that provide great ground cover as they grow, helping to limit the spread of weeds in future seasons.
Carole Baxter assesses how the dahlias have delivered this year. They are great for cut flower collections, but has the weather affected the results?
With autumn fast approaching, Lizzie Schofield and Ruth Vichos pick the garden’s carrot crop, and Calum has the latest from his allotment in Leven.