Glass Houses and Shrubs

S1 E6: In tonight’s show Diarmuid Gavin wants us to use glasshouses to restore a sense of adventure, flair and excitement to our gardens. On his campaign, he visits Wentworth Castle in Barnsley to help out with the final stages of the restoration of its elaborate Victorian glasshouse. He give us his guide to greenhouse buying and meets up with passionate allotmenteers in Nottingham, who have gone one better and designed and built their own remarkable greenhouses using recycled materials. Diarmuid gives us his top greenhouse growing tips; he gets to grips with hothouse flowers and explores the wealth of temperate and tropical flora on display at the National Botanic Gardens in Wales.Also tonight, Matt James thinks that shrubs have been overlooked and ignored for too long. He wants gardeners to rediscover and appreciate the importance of this amazing group of plants. On his journey he visits a garden in Norfolk where shrubs are the stars of the show and inspires a group of young gardeners at Flatford Mill in Suffolk, to plant shrubs in their gardens to encourage wildlife. Matt gives us his beginner’s guide to shrubs with the focus on colour, flower power and fragrance and he shares his top pruning tips, to help keep shrubs looking at their best year after year. Please note, this version may differ slightly from the UKTX version.