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Gardeners' World 2026

Monty Don is back for a new series of Gardeners' World 2026 starting on Friday 13 March 2026 on BBC2 and the BBC iplayer.

Where has the Winter gone, with Monty Don's Rhineland Gardens and Gardeners' World Compilation 2026 only just ending, it feels like Monty has not had any time off from our screens.

Prior to that we had Gardeners' World Winter Specials 2025/2026 and I cannot decide if is it too much, or not enough to see us through the Winter months?

Monty back at Longmeadow and after a very wet Winter I wonder how it is after the floods and what projects has he planned for the garden this year.

Longmeadow is in Hertfordshire and is just 2 acres, although seems a lot bigger on the telly.

Monty, his wife Sarah and family have lived there since 1991.

It was just a field when they moved in and it took years of hard work as well as soil conditioning to turn it from a field to a garden.

Monty had no idea at the time of designing and creating his garden it would one day be one of the most watched gardens on the telly.

The big news for this series is Adam Frost has moved house again, so he has a new blank canvas of a garden to start again in.

Unlike Monty garden transformation all those years ago we will be watching it transform and we get to see Adam planting his very first trees in episode 1.

Adam has transformed 2 gardens and shared them with the viewers of Gardeners' World and I am sure getting a vegetable garden prepared. will be on the agenda.

Gardeners' World has not just been about gardening, it has also featured their 4 legged co-stars more and more in recent years.

The main stars have been Monty Don's Dogs, the Late Nigel, Nellie and the current Dogs Ned and Patti. (Monty has other off screen pets)

I wonder if this year we will see a replacement for Nellie?

Adam Frost also has his animal co-stars stealing the limelight, Ash the Cat and new dog on the block Buster.

Buster recent appearance on Gardeners' world caused a stir as he was caught by the camera 'watering' the plants in the background of the shot!

There are the other pets too, including Rua, the dog of Frances Tophill, so many that they have needed their own page The Animal Co-Stars of Gardeners' World

As well as seeing what happening in the garden at Longmeadow, the other presenters will be showing us their own gardens and projects.

We have the usual visits to some of the most beautiful gardens in the United Kingdom that are open to the public as well as getting a look round some private gardens.

The viewers videos are back which are recorded by themselves and take us either on a tour of their own unique plots or to show us what they have been doing in the garden with some helpful tips along the way.

Will this series bring any format changes or new presenters, we will have to wait and see but the return of Gardeners' World marks the start of the Spring season and time to get sowing and planting.

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Gardeners' World 2026 Episodes

Episode 1 13/03/2026

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Episode 2 20/03/2026

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Monty Don's Rhineland Gardens

Monty Don's Rhineland Gardens is a 3 part series featuring our favourite TV Gardener ;Monty Don that was first shown in BBC2 on Friday 16 January 2026.

The series, shown over the 3 episodes sees Monty Don travelling along the Rhine visiting a total of 4 Countries.

This hour long programme starts in the Switzerland and he ends his journey in the Netherlands.

Gardeners' World 2026 returns with Monty Don welcoming us to the first of four Gardeners' World Compilations 2026

The first programme was shown on Friday 09 January 2026 on BBC2.

It is repeated in the Saturday morning Gardening slot and is also available on the BBC iplayer.

With Gardeners' World 2025 ending late this year and Gardeners' World Winter Specials 2025/2026 only just ending, Monty is back with the highlights of the last series already.

The first of the four programmes looks back on Monty making changes to the Jewel Garden by adding giant grasses,

He plants some Dwarf Beans and gives us some tips for Oriental Poppies

We revisit a garden in Bath visited by Toby Buckland, as well as a visit to RHS Bridgewater by Jamie Butterworth.

Adam Frost visits a walled garden in Essex and we see what a Community Group in Cheshire has done to involve people in gardening.

We also see him visit a Couple in the Peak District that have their own way of growing vegetables.

In Episode 2 Monty is, Putting tender Salvias in the ground and doing his pots in the Jewel Garden taking out Tulips and adding Summer bedding.

Carol Klein is giving us some inspiration for our beds and borders for the Spring.

The Aster is celebrated by Rachel De Thame and Advolly Richmond following in the footsteps of writer and garden designer Vita Sackville-West.

We are also visiting viewers gardens to look at Delphiniums and Ferns

After several weeks Monty back for Episode 3 and at Longmeadow he is sowing Cosmos, telling us his secret for growing Blueberries and making a sauce from his Tomatoes.

Sue Kent is in the border to Wales to meet an Artist using their blooms and Rekha Mistry is in her own garden

Chelsea Flower Show Designer Tom Hoblyn meets with Joe Swift to give him a lesson in bud grafting.

There also a visit to some allotments in Birmingham and meet a Chef who likes to grow their own produce.

Episode 4 is the final Episode of the Compilation episodes before the return of Gardeners' World 2026 on Friday 13 March 2026.

Monty is potting a Fig Tree, shares his knowledge for Rose growers and revives a Agapanthus.

Frances Tophill is visiting a retired GP and Arit Anderson is visiting the garden of 2 designers.

A visit to the RHS Hyde Hall by Ashley Edwards to see the drought resistant plants they grow as well as a close up look at Bees by a Wildlife Camera Man.

Some armchair gardening during the cold Winter months is always a treat.

We take a break from the hard graft to flick through some seed catalogues and plan ahead for the next season.

Time for some inspiration and planning, time to admire others hard work.

If we do not achieve a garden to Longmeadow's standards, just getting to taste your own produce or have a garden full of colour is just an achievement!

Hurry up Spring!

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