Carol Klein's Summer Gardening

Summer is the time to start reaping the rewards of gardeners' hard work during winter and spring, and Carol shows off some of the results of the tasks and projects she started earlier in the year.

Carol demonstrates the utility in choosing plants based on how sunny or shady a garden is. This is also rose week, and Carol introduces many of the different forms taken by this summer must-have.

Carol takes a showery spell as an opportunity to investigate some of the UK's richest plant habitats, watery wetlands and bogs. Later, she celebrates members of the Iris family, including the `Katharine Hodgson' variety.

Despite the challenging mix of intense hot, dry days and torrential stormy downpours, the garden is showing off a magical sea of flowers and foliage throughout its relaxed beds and borders.

During the hot summer, many gardeners struggle to get to grips with those dusty, exposed, dry areas that never seem to work, but for Carol, these can be rich planting opportunities.

As summer reaches its climax at Glebe Cottage in Devon, Carol Klein introduces a group of plants that really provides the drum roll to peak summer time: the daisy.