The Beechgrove Garden Season 33

The Beechgrove Garden has only just emerged from the December snow, and the team take stock of the damage done over the severe winter and search for hopeful signs of spring.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. The team mount Project Plant Rescue, Jim and Carole investigate the alternatives to peat, and Lesley begins her garden design masterclass.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. The team decide to start planting potatoes, Lesley and Carole mount their tatties-in-containers challenge and Jim gives a self-sufficient couple tips.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim and George show how to pollinate plants by hand to maximise fruit yields. And Carole and Lesley take a look at some of last year's potato trials.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole and Lesley revamp the Beechgrove alpine garden, George demonstrates how to grow large vegetables, and Jim plants broad beans and sweet peas.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole and Lesley plant new collections of baby fuchsias, Carole and George tackle leek rust and white onion rot, and the tulips are out in force.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole starts a gourd trial, Jim seeds celtuce, chicory, claytonia and Chinese kale while Lesley tackles square gardens in her design masterclass.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole attempts to rekindle interest in carnations, Jim has another go at growing sweetcorn, and George learns the tricks of the bonsai-growing trade.

The team is on a break from the garden to be at Gardening Scotland. Sometimes called the Chelsea of the north, it is the biggest gardening show north of the border.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim indulges his passion for dahlias and provides solutions for a steep, sloping garden in Linlithgow, and Lesley creates an Olympic-themed bedding.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole and Lesley plant annuals in the greenhouse, Carole seeds her geranium family trial, and Carolyn has solutions for a shaded, sloped garden.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim reviews developments in the orchard, Carole plants a range of micro leaves and George gives a Kelso couple pruning and plant maintenance tips.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. The team puts waders on and heads for the pond, Jim tries out a new lawn moss product, and Carole visits a couple's garden in Grantown-on-Spey.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. The team discuss the state of the oak which is now hampering the growth of other plants, and decide to lift the crown of the tree.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim checks on the success of the yields in the fruit house, and Carole and George give the bog garden a revamp. Plus Jim reviews the garvinea trial.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole and Lesley make arrangements of hardy annuals and check their potato yields, while Jim sees if a new fertiliser has helped the vegetable crop.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole visits Janis Louden in Lumphanan to help create a herb garden before tracking down the renowned giant titum arum at the RBGE.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim, Carole and Lesley each take a favourite area of the garden to showcase as well as completing routine maintenance in those areas.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. The team is on the road to help complete the development of a new community garden used by those affected by homelessness in Maryhill, Glasgow.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim reviews varieties of dahlias and garvineas, and visits Glenbervie House's garden, while Carole and Lesley look at their trial of tumbling plants.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Carole harvests her trial broad beans, Lesley discovers how her hardy and half-hardy annuals have fared, and George helps a pair of novice gardeners.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim reviews the vegetables he has been growing in the potager and Carole demonstrates how to take semi-ripe cuttings for easy propogation.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. Jim works on the main lawn to help it cope with erratic weather conditions, while Carole helps Drumblade Primary clear the weeds from its sandpit.

Landscape gardening show. The Beechgrove team are on the road to Spey Bay to help build a garden full of wildlife themes at one of the most exposed sites they have ever worked on.

Celebrating Scottish gardens. George Anderson enters his produce at the Dalkeith show, and Jim McColl visits the Newburgh Orchard Group in Fife to learn of their current project.

Gardening programme celebrating Scottish gardens, with horticultural tips. The team enjoys the colour of autumn while battening down the hatches ahead of the winter.