Last July I set off to the North of Britain to film the first of five programmes for ‘Monty Don’s UK Gardens’. A year later I have just completed the fifth, filmed in Scotland, and the completed series will be shown on BBC 2 next February. But on that first trip it rained every single day – and sometimes it feels like it has rained every day since then. Certainly this has been the wettest 12 months in my lifetime.

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