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 33 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2025.
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Beechgrove Garden
Beechgrove follows Sophie McKilligan from being a budding allotment holder in Aberdeen to blossoming as a gardener at Culzean Castle.
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Calum and George tackle club root, a serious problem at Beechgrove. George also checks in on the main vegetable plot, gathering more produce for the kitchen, and Calum sows violas for autumn colour.
Ruth shows what can be still be sown in the garden to get home-grown produce at this time of year.
July 2025
Kirsty and Brian focus on Beechgrove's trees and colourful borders, and Brian explains why this is the right time of year for pruning trees.
Ruth checks on the strawberry patch and looks at the benefits of growing microgreens, Brian demonstrates the best way to go about pruning wisteria, and George reports from a fascinating royal garden.
It’s a productive time at Beechgrove Garden, with fruit and vegetables now ready to be picked, dug up and enjoyed.
It’s July, and the new month brings a new set of jobs to get stuck into at Beechgrove. Calum harvests the shallots that were planted last year, and there is a look at lawn care.
June 2025
Kirsty and Brian visit Beechgrove Garden’s June Border, part of the plot designed and planted to look its best in June.
Brian is in the Calendar Border, an area designed to have something of interest every month of the year.
George demonstrates how to give the gooseberries a light summer prune and also demonstrates an important June job for anyone who is growing apples.
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.
2025: Episode 20
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It’s time to look ahead at jobs that will deliver results into the next growing season. Plus a visit to a garden that was designed for the Chelsea Flower Show but is now taking root in Cumbernauld.