Beechgrove Garden

Planting borders and planning for cut flowers are on Lizzie Schofield and Brian Cunningham's to-do list at the garden. Lizzie is direct sowing in the new cuttings area and Brian is in the zig-zag border, planting varieties that will grow tall, making them ideal for the back of a plot without requiring support or staking.

Brian kicks off this year's collection of plants being cultivated in the 6x8ft glasshouse. This is the most common-sized domestic greenhouse, so if you are lucky enough to have one, Brian has some great ideas for this season.

Lizzie is the first of the presenters to start work in her competition plot. The theme this year is planting that will appeal to one of the senses, and Lizzie has one of the most challenging: touch. Plus, there is a report on the alpine collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and all the usual handy hints.

It's time for some early summer colour as Carole Baxter makes the first of her visits to classic Scottish gardens. She visits Glenarn, which has a fabulous collection of rhododendrons looking their best right now.

Back at Beechgrove Garden, George Anderson and Calum Clunie are busy refreshing the grass and gravel plot and planting new varieties. Calum demonstrates how to take cuttings from a fuchsia, and there are some ideas on how to manage your plot if you are unlucky enough to have club root in your vegetable patch. And there are all the usual handy hints.

Kirsty Wilson and Brian Cuningham show how to help the pollinators in your garden and at Beechgrove as they focus on planting that will attract bees to your plot.

Even if you don't have a garden, Kirsty demonstrates how you can help the local ecosystem by sowing a meadow in a pot. She also discusses the best summer bulbs to plant now for fragrance and colour.

Brian is back in the vegetable plot for his summer-long guide to productive gardening for beginners, and there is a demonstration of how to prune spring-flowering shrubs. All that and the week's handy hints.

Some more unusual methods of growing are demonstrated at Beechgrove Garden. Ruth Vichos attempts to produce a mushroom crop and there's a report on some of Scotland's best bonsai, with everything you need to know to start that form of cultivation. Brian Cunningham is in the Seaside Garden at Beechgrove refreshing the planting with varieties that can withstand a coastal climate and Brian turns conifers into sculptures with topiary. Plus the week's handy hints.