410 episodes

'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.

Gardening with the RHS Pixiu

    • Leisure
    • 4.0 • 412 Ratings

'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.

    Garden carbon footprints, wasps in springtime, and pruning shrubby Hydrangeas

    Garden carbon footprints, wasps in springtime, and pruning shrubby Hydrangeas

    This week Guy Barter and RHS Sustainability Fellow Chloe Sutcliffe react to a recent study published in the journal Nature Cities that claims that urban agriculture has a carbon footprint up to 6 times bigger than conventional agriculture – discussing what this means for allotmenteers and community gardeners, and how we should be thinking about our environmental impact. Entomologist and wasp defender Serian Sumner explains why spring is the perfect time to make peace with yellowjackets, as the queens emerge from hibernation. And the RHS’s Adrian Thorne gives us a practical guide to pruning shrubby hydrangeas. 

    Presenter: Gareth Richards

    Contributors: Guy Barter, Chloe Sutcliffe, Serian Sumner, Adrian Thorne

    Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk 

    Links:

    Nature Cities: Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture

    Endless Forms by Serian Sumner

    Shrubby Hydrangeas 

    The Garden Magazine

    • 30 min
    Blight-Resistant Tomatoes, Harmonious Borders, and the Women Who Shaped the RHS

    Blight-Resistant Tomatoes, Harmonious Borders, and the Women Who Shaped the RHS

    This week, we’re trying to honour March in all its glory. We’re delving into tasty and blight-resistant tomato varieties. We’re exploring how to build and renovate harmonious and colourful borders. And finally, to celebrate International Women’s Day and the 220th anniversary of the RHS, we’re turning back the clock to honour a few of the women who’ve shaped the organisation.

    Presenter: Guy Barter

    Contributors: Simon Crawford, Susie Pasley-Tyler, Fiona Davison

    Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk

    Links:

    How to grow tomatoes

    Tomato blight

    Gardening with Colour at Coton Manor

    An Almost Impossible Thing

    • 29 min
    Apple Pruning, Allotment Preparation, and the Thinking Behind Plant Names

    Apple Pruning, Allotment Preparation, and the Thinking Behind Plant Names

    This week we’re exploring small but useful nuggets of information that have the potential to change the way we interact with our surroundings this growing season. We’re getting seasonal tips on GYO – things like training and pruning apple trees and preparing allotments for the busiest time of year. And, we’re delving into plant names – and the system behind our classifications. 
     
    Presenter: Guy Barter
    Contributors: Andy Lewis, Jenny Laville, James Armitage

    Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk

    Links:
     
    Apples and pears: winter gardening
     
    The Newt in Somerset – an RHS Partner Garden
     
    Allotments: getting started
     
    RHS Practical Latin for Gardeners
     
    Untangling Latin Names

    • 28 min
    Notes on Hardiness

    Notes on Hardiness

    This week, we’re investigating what exactly makes a plant hardy, how tropical plants survive British winters, and the ways in which what thrives here may be changing – especially in urban environments like London. Presenter Gareth Richards and RHS botanist James Armitage take a tour of weird and wacky tender trees that have survived here against all odds. And, Hillary Collins of Grafton Nursery gives us a behind the scenes look at what you can do to help your eucalyptus withstand British winters.

    Presenter: Gareth Richards

    Contributors: James Armitage and Hilary Collins

    Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk

    Links:

    Mediterranean garden plants

    RHS hardiness ratings

    Hardy Eucalyptus (Grafton Nursery)

    • 31 min
    Something New!

    Something New!

    This week’s show is all about growing something new. We’re spreading the word about exciting plant species, cultivars, and hybrids from those that love them most. Legendary plantsman Roy Lancaster chats about shrubby honeysuckles, Canadian horticulturist Grahame Ware makes the case for a curious genus called Syneilesis, and Wisley horticulturist Jack Aldridge shares the stories behind flowering dogwood hybrids.

    All the stories in this show are based on articles from the March issue of The Plant Review. You can find information on how to subscribe here.

    Presenters: Gareth Richards & James Armitage

    Contributors: Roy Lancaster, Grahame Ware, and Jack Aldridge

    Links:

    Shrubby honeysuckle

    Flowering dogwood

    • 32 min
    Alpine Delights, Wisteria Pruning, and the Great RHS Award Snub

    Alpine Delights, Wisteria Pruning, and the Great RHS Award Snub

    For this week’s show, we take a behind the scenes look at the ways spring is fighting its way into the picture at RHS Garden Wisley. We go behind the scenes at the Alpine Display House, we get a masterclass on pruning wisteria, and we dive into the life and work of the eccentric and influential horticulturist Ellen Willmott – and explore a theory for why she may have missed her Victoria Medal of Honour ceremony. 

    Presenter: Guy Barter

    Contributors: Alex Hankey, Matthew Pottage, Suzanne Moss

    Links:

    Visiting Wisley

    Narcissus bulbocodium 

    How to get wonderful Wisteria: Buying, planting, pruning and care tips

    “Gardens have provided solace, opportunity and inspiration for LGBTQ+ people”

    Miss Willmott’s Ghosts: the extraordinary life and gardens of a forgotten genius

    • 31 min

Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5
412 Ratings

412 Ratings

SAPStone1949 ,

Interesting content

I’ve just found this podcast full of very useful advice and inspiration for gardeners. But I find the tinkling piano music played while people are talking so distracting! So much soo that it’s off putting.

fionaleecle ,

Notes on Hardiness

This episode celebrated climate change, very disappointing

James Jesus angleton ,

Peatfree

Brilliant!!!!! As ever.

I didn’t quite understand what you meant by
The RSH will be peat free by 2025
Is that the time you will stop using it or that it will be phased out by 2025?

Thanks

Top Podcasts In Leisure

The Chromologist
Farrow & Ball
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
Immediate Media
The Collecting Cars Podcast with Chris Harris
Collecting Cars
Gardeners' Question Time
BBC Radio 4
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
Smith and Sniff
Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

You Might Also Like

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
Immediate Media
Gardeners' Question Time
BBC Radio 4
grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & friends
Sarah Raven
Gardeners' Corner
BBC Radio Ulster
The Organic Gardening Podcast
Garden Organic
Talking Gardens
Our Media

More by Pixiu

Happy Mum Happy Baby
Giovanna Fletcher
Squiggly Careers
The Squiggly Career
What if? with Lorraine & Rosie
Pixiu
Plot Twist
NOW
Girls No Filter with Jess Wright
Pixiu
The Garden Podcast
Royal Horticultural Society