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Gardening with the RHS Pixiu
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'Gardening with the RHS' offers seasonal advice, inspiration and practical solutions to gardening problems. Trusted gardening professionals give you the latest horticultural advice, scientific research and tried and tested techniques to bring out the best in your garden.
Topics covered include: growing your own vegetables, flowers, garden design, lawn care and gardening with children. Plus expert masterclasses in topics ranging from cottage garden plants, growing orchids, to pest control and eco-friendly gardening.
Plus we’ll have behind the scenes reports from the country’s most prestigious flower shows. There’s something in these podcasts to interest every gardener, whatever your level of expertise.
For more info see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast
A Pixiu production.
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From Botanic Gardens to Insect Studies; the Secrets to Thriving Ecosystems
Chris Kidd, Curator of Ventnor Botanic Gardens, discusses his pioneering low-intervention approach to horticulture with a two decade long experiment which has yielded some surprising results on the Isle of Wight. New research from Butterfly Conservation reveals letting parts of your garden grow wild can increase butterfly numbers by up to 93%, we meet entomologist Dr Richard Fox to find out why moths and butterflies are such important members of the garden community. And finally, we catch up with Gemma Burr at RHS Garden Wisley to learn what you can sow right now to ensure your garden stays insect friendly throughout the season.
Host: Guy Barter
Contributors: Chris Kidd, Dr Richard Fox, Gemma Burr
Other links:
Ventnor Botanic Gardens website
Butterfly Conservation wild garden study
Wild Spaces website
The Big Butterfly Count
Sustainable Planting Combinations
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Critter camaraderie: Slugs, Snails, and Guerilla Gardening Tales
After a deluge of questions relating to garden critters, RHS Principal Entomologist Hayley Jones makes the case for why you shouldn’t be too quick to eradicate slugs and snails from your garden. Artist and ‘accidental activist’ Paul Harfleet shares how he has been transforming sites of hate crime through guerilla gardening. Finally, Rosemoor's Peter Adams talks about the benefits of potager gardening, a style of ornamental kitchen gardens with roots in the formal gardens of the French Renaissance.
Host: Gareth Richards
Contributors: Hayley Jones, Paul Harfleet, Peter Adams
Other Links:
The Pansy Project
More Information on Slugs and Snails
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Early Summer at Wisley
This week we’ll be dropping in with the advisory team at RHS Garden Wisley to answer some of your most asked questions this season. Plantsman Ed Cooper will be shining some light on the enigmatic delphiniums he’s been growing down at the trials field, and horticulturist Verity Battyll shares some top tips on how to keep your rose garden looking stunning all year round.
Host: Guy Barter
Contributors: Ed Cooper, James Lawrence, Amy Ashman, Nick Turrell, Verity Batyll
Other Links:
Bowes-lyon rose garden
Delphiniums
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The Enchanting World of Herbs
This week we’re diving into the enchanting world of herbs. Join us as author and horticulturist Connor Smith uncovers the rich history of these remarkable plants, celebrated in food, medicine, and mythology for millennia. The Queen of Herbs, Jekka McVicar, shares her expert advice on cultivating your own herb garden. From RHS Garden Wisley, Liz Mooney delivers a heartfelt love letter to her favourite herb. Plus, we’ll hear reflections from Wisley curator Matt Pottage as he bids a fond farewell after 20 dedicated years with the RHS.
Host: Gareth Richards
Contributors: Connor Smith, Jekka McVicar, Liz Mooney, Matt Pottage
Other Links:
How Herbs Healed the World by Connor Smith
100 Herbs to Grow by Jekka McVicar
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Squashes, Hebes, and the new RHS patron is announced!
From butternuts to tromboncinos – on this week's show, Wisley’s Liz Mooney tells us about some of her favourite squashes with top tips on how to grow them. Roz Marshall talks us through the results of the RHS Hebe trial at Wisley and Harlow Carr, and Director General Clare Matterson reflects on the announcement of King Charles III as the new patron of the RHS.
Presenter: Guy Barter
Contributors: Liz Mooney, Roz Marshall, Clare Matterson
Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk
Links:
Shrubby Veronica (Hebe) trial results
How to grow squashes - RHS
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It's RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024!
Welcome to RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024! We’re diving headfirst into all of the trends and highlights this hotly anticipated show has to offer; from the growers filling the Great Pavilion with their dazzling botanical displays, to the striking RHS Plant of the Year Prunus ‘Starlight’, and of course the legendary garden designers lining main avenue with some truly spectacular show gardens.
This year is all about celebrating the young gardeners of tomorrow, so join us for a peak inside The RHS No Adults Allowed Garden designed by Harry Holding in collaboration with local schoolchildren, as well as Ula Maria’s Best Show Garden-winning Muscular Dystropy UK - Forest Bathing Garden showstopper, Tom Massey and Je Ahn’s Gold medal-winning WaterAid Garden, Tom Stuart-Smith’s luscious Gold-winning The National Garden Scheme Garden, Ann-Marie Powell’s RHS Children Choice Award-winning garden, and much, much more…
Presenters:
Jenny Laville, Gareth Richards, Guy Barter
Contributors:
Tom Massey, Je Ahn, Ula Maria, James Armitage, Ann-Marie Powell
Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk
Other links:
RHS Chelsea Flower Show Website
SheGrowsVeg
Urban Organic
Pure Grenada