Monty advises on essential summer pruning and adds French beans to the vegetable garden. The programme also meets a gardener in Hertfordshire who combines her love of cottage garden plants with tropical plants and visits a garden in Kent where pots are the stars of the summer show.

With the bank holiday weekend looming, Monty Don has plenty of inspiration for gardeners from planting for late summer colour to tidying up herbs and pruning soft fruit. Nick Bailey concludes his journey into the clematis world by looking at the late summer-flowering varieties and the programme travels to Devon to meet a retired biology teacher with a passion for houseleeks.