Gardeners' World - 2010/2011 - Episode 28

The tropical bananas and cannas at Greenacre have filled the late summer and autumn borders with fiery colours and big bold foliage, but as the clocks go back and the days shorten, it is time to put them to bed before the first hard frosts of the season kill them off. Toby Buckland has tips and advice on how to store these tender tropicals over winter so that we can enjoy them again next year. Fiery colours of a leafy kind are on Carol Klein's agenda when she visits the National Arboretum at Westonbirt in Gloucestershire to examine just a few of the 2000 members of the maple family grown there. She discovers a wonderland of spectacular leaf colour and fascinating bark formations, and recommends the best varieties that gardeners might grow in their own back gardens. On the trail of the autumn apple harvest, Alys Fowler meets Paul Barnett, an apple man who grows 250 different varieties of apple - on just one tree! Thanks to a technique called budding, incredibly, he has managed to fruit all his favourite apples, both cookers and eaters, in his own back garden.