All summer, Beechgrove Garden has had a focus on planting and gardening that is beneficial to wildlife. Pollinator-friendly plants have been spread around the whole garden, but there is one area with a particular focus on wildlife-friendly planting, and Carole is there to review its progress. She is joined by George Anderson, who will be tackling some important pruning. There is also a visit to Skye to find out more about a great community garden in Portree.

It's the last episode of Beechgrove Garden's summer series, so Carole Baxter and George Anderson are in a reflective mood as they look back at how the 2023 growing season has been. It was a hot, dry June, a damp August, followed by a bloom of hot weather in early September - so what has that done to the garden?

Carole and George dig up the crop of blue potatoes planted earlier in the year, there are bulbs going into the ground for spring 2024, and there is a back-to-basics demonstration of how to take hardwood cuttings.

There are end-of-term updates from Calum Clunie at his allotment in Fife, and Brian Cunningham goes over his herbaceous border at Old Scone.