Beechgrove Garden

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.