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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
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From towering blooms to tiny microbes
This week we explore the history of Kiftsgate Court Gardens and catch a glimpse of their famous, gigantic, eponymous rose. We chat to self-confessed fern fanatic Julian Reed about what makes this group of plants so fascinating. Plus, we hear why thinking more about the soil microorganisms in our garden could benefit our blooms and crops.
Host: Guy Barter
Contributors: Anne Chambers, Julian Reed, Eddie Bailey
Other Links:
Kiftsgate Court Gardens
British Pteridological Society
Rhizophyllia
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Take-home ideas from RHS Flower Show Tatton Park
Welcome to the largest flower show in the North of England; RHS Flower Show Tatton Park! This show is all about exploring the infinite possibilities of your back garden – whether you have an acre of land, or simply a patio or windowsill – Tatton really celebrates spaces of all shapes and sizes. We visit Leon Davis’ UnPave the Way garden to find out how to transform dull paved driveways into inviting spaces which are full of clever take-home ideas designed to ‘slow the flow’ of rainwater. We also hear from some of the exceptional growers who have filled the floral marquee to the rafters with botanical wonders, and finally Tom Saunders – designer of the Orchid terrace garden – highlights some of the threats facing one of the most diverse and widespread flowering plants on earth.
Presenters:
Jenny Laville, Gareth Richards
Contributors:
Leon Davis
Colin Hickman (Hoyland Plant Centre)
John Amand (Jacques Amand Limited)
Luke Whiting (D’Arcy & Everest)
Tom Saunders
Other links:
RHS Flower Show Tatton Park Tickets
Ferns & Carnivorous Plants Show
Unpave the way garden
North West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee: Unpave the Way project
Orchid terrace garden
Inside Tatton’s Floral Marquee
Long Borders
The Kaleidoscope Ginnel Garden
The Woodland Trust: 49% Garden -
Creating healthy gardens for people and planet
In this episode we delve into the profound connection between nature and well-being. Landscape Architect Adam White discusses creating dementia-friendly sensory gardens, designed to evoke early memories and nostalgia. Mandy Barber from Incredible Vegetables shares the benefits of growing perennial edibles. Plus, we visit RHS Garden Wisley to get expert answers to your pressing gardening questions.
Host: Gareth Richards
Contributors: Mandy Barber, Adam White, James Lawrence, Amy Ashman, Nick Turrell
Other Links:
Advice on creating a dementia friendly garden
Supporting people with dementia - a guide for community gardens
Incredible Vegetables
RHS Sustainable Planting Combinations
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Money saving tips, moss magic, and awesome Asteraceae at Hampton 2024!
Welcome to the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2024! We’re exploring the site and transporting you right to the heart of this buzzing showground. Anya Lautenbach – best known as ‘Anya the Garden Fairy’ on Instagram, and RHS Ambassador and passionate plantsman Jamie Butterworth share some top tips on how to create a showstopping garden on a budget. Groundbreaking young garden designer Bea Tann illuminates the magic of moss and makes the case for what new build homes could benefit from embracing these prehistoric plants. Finally graduates of the London College of Garden Design show us just how versatile the Asteraceae (daisy) family can be in your garden. All this and more coming up on this special Hampton edition of Gardening with the RHS.
Presenters:
Jenny Laville, Gareth Richards & Guy Barter
Contributors:
Anya Lautenbach, Jamie Butterworth, Bea Tann, Brian Youngblut, Garden Girls Collective (Melissa Wilkinson, Rachel Barnard, Annie Shephard and Bev Small), Kate Campbell, Sally-Anne Rees and William Murray
Other links:
RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival tickets
10 thrifty tips from The Money-Saving Gardener
The Magic of Moss
All About Asteraceae
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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
The Potager and Cottage Garden
Customer Reviews
Love listening
I listen frequently. I love all the information you pass on. I am from the USA. I have no problem with the accent or the rate of speech!! But I do listen to a lot of British podcasts.
Peat is sustainable
I live on a peat bog. That eas s pete farm. If grows yearly. I totally disagree with your gardening falsehoods. You are slaying plants you call annuals as you are preventing pete from happening in a natural way. Annuals are not a crop. Let them live and regenerate this bog called earth
Great show, but….
I would like to say that I listen all of the time. I don’t. And only because every single episode is in an England dialect with fast speed talking hosts, who clearly speak to their continent only. Literally can’t understand half of what they say. Year after year. Just slow down and speak clearly. Wish your podcast was for everyone and not just local Londonites.