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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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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
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Nature Cities: Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture
Endless Forms by Serian Sumner
Shrubby Hydrangeas
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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
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How to grow tomatoes
Tomato blight
Gardening with Colour at Coton Manor
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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
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Apples and pears: winter gardening
The Newt in Somerset – an RHS Partner Garden
Allotments: getting started
RHS Practical Latin for Gardeners
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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
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Mediterranean garden plants
RHS hardiness ratings
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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
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Shrubby honeysuckle
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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
Customer Reviews
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.
Notes on Hardiness
This episode celebrated climate change, very disappointing
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