Beechgrove Garden - 2010 - Episode 1

Gardening programme celebrating Scottish gardens, with horticultural tips and tricks. It has been the coldest winter in Scotland since records began. As chilly as the inside of a domestic freezer; -16 degrees centigrade in some areas. The snow brought on some odd panic buying as supermarkets ran out of all sorts of salt, one online retailer sold 20,000 sledges and there was an increase in sale of carrots for snowmen. The Beechgrove Garden has been under snow since mid-December and only just emerged a couple of weeks ago. In this first programme of the new series Jim, Carole and Lesley find out exactly how the weather has affected Beechgrove, but also what has happened in neighbouring gardens in and around the North East. Jim visits a snowy but beautiful Cawdor Castle garden which has sustained significant winter damage. He speaks to head gardener Derek Hosie and to Lady Cawdor about battling with the elements. They both give advice on how to deal with their snow-ravaged garden. Among the bright signs of spring, George Anderson is preparing to enter the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society's spring show. We follow George's painstaking preparations and his nursing of the beautiful bulbs that he is entering, and visit the show which is awash with colour from the bold bulbs of spring.