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Gardening with the RHS Pixiu
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4.8 • 200 Ratings
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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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GYO tips from Rosemoor, plant hybrids, and shrubscapes
Desert roadcuts, abandoned pasture, heathland and marshy thickets inspire naturalistic planting ideas from Kevin Philip Williams and Michel Guidi, whose new book Shrouded in Light draws from wild shrubscapes. We also visit RHS Garden Rosemoor in North Devon, where Peter Adams gives us a tour of the extensive fruit and vegetable gardens with top tips for growing parsnips, shallots, cloching potatoes and protecting peas. Jenny Laville and James Armitage return to the podcast to debunk more plant terminology – this time talking about “hybrids” – what they are, how they occur and how they can be used to your advantage.
Presenter: Gareth Richards
Contributors: Peter Adams, Jenny Laville, James Armitage, Michael Guidi and Kevin Philip Williams
Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk
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RHS Garden Rosemoor
How to grow parsnips
How to grow shallots
How to grow potatoes
F1 Hybrids
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Sustainable plant combos, GYO tips (for tomatoes, beetroot, squash), flowering shrubs
Do you ever fall in love with a plant, buy it, but then not know what to pair it with? Principal Horticultural Advisor James Lawrence introduces his guide to creating planting combinations that don’t just look good, but have a sustainability impact too. Guy Barter shares seasonal tips for establishing tomatoes, beetroot, and winter pumpkins and squash – helping you to set up for the Grow Your Own season. And Jack Aldridge, a horticulturist who looks after Oakwood at RHS Garden Wisley, will be singing an ode to his favourite flowering shrub, the Stachyurus.
Presenter: Guy Barter
Contributors: James Lawrence, Jack Aldridge
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Oakwood at RHS Garden Wisley
How to grow tomatoes
How to grow beetroot
How to grow pumpkins
Stachyurus praecox
Stachyurus chinensis
RHS Gardening advice / ChatBotanist -
The Piet Oudolf Landscape, Bumbles on Blooms, Plant Propagation
Often referred to as “the greatest living landscape designer” and a leading figure of the New Perennial movement – Piet Oudolf joins curator Matthew Pottage to talk about his new landscape at RHS Garden Wisley. Helen Bostock also introduces the new Bumbles on Blooms project, and the plants you should choose to help support over 250 species of bees in the UK - some with rather particular tastes. Plus, Sam Gallivan, Leader of the Nursery and Propagation team at Wisley talks about propagating plants at scale.
Presenter: Gareth Richards
Contributors: Matthew Pottage, Piet Oudolf, Helen Bostock, Sam Gallivan
Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk
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Bumbles on Blooms
iNaturalist
Oudolf Landscape
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Greener Containers, Plant Name Changes, and Chaenomeles
Garden designer and writer Ann Treneman shares ideas from her new book RHS Greener Gardening: Containers, explaining how you can create sustainable ecosystems whatever size your space. Jenny Laville speaks with RHS botanist James Armitage to untangle taxonomy, and discuss why plant names keep changing. And Gareth Richards meets David Ford, the holder of the National Plant Collection of Chaenomeles in Surrey, to talk about his love affair with the plant and why they’re due a mainstream revival.
Presenter: Guy Barter
Contributors: Ann Treneman, Jenny Laville, James Armitage, Gareth Richards, David Ford
Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk
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Greener Gardening Containers
RHS Plant Finder
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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
The Garden Magazine -
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
An Almost Impossible Thing
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.