15 episodes
Rich Pickings Jo Thompson and Nina Baxter
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- Leisure
A little bit about gardens, and a lot about everything else. Two garden designer friends share their tales, some tips and quite a lot of trivia: each week is a ramble along wherever the garden path leads them. Whether it’s Morris dancing or a gritty debate about the merits of biscuits for breakfast, the gentle debates and occasional squabbles are never in danger of being too earnest.
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Perambulations round the park
Jo and Nina are back with a vengeance as they take stock of this year's RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival. A pottering through gardens swerves into a conversation about manservants, the gowns of academics and the sleep-inducing qualities of The Lord of the Rings.
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The One with the Druid - Part I
At the time of the Summer Solstice, Nina and Jo chat with an actual Druid and discuss why, actually, it’s all logical. Celebrating trees, plants, stones and skies, Dan Lobb takes us along on a journey of reconnecting with the wisdom of our ancestors.
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The RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Jo and Nina are back from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Listen in to hear their thoughts and reflections on one of the biggest weeks of the horticultural year.
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A little bit of sunshine
A little bit of sunshine does us all the world of good as Nina and Jo catch up on what’s going on in the garden. There’s a lucky dip of horticultural information this week: why not stick a hand in and rummage around?
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Trolley tours and trench coats
Jo is back and gives Nina a whistlestop tour through San Francisco, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Connecticut.
Motorcades and Gwyneth Paltrow, expensive dressing Succession-style, best bookshops and booknooks, and is there any point at all to a eucalyptus, which Nina feels fairly strongly about.
There’s a visit to a super-whizz tech headquarters in Silicon Valley, an homage to the Tales of the City novels and a scoot around gardens both botanical and communal. Groundhogs make yet another appearance, and Jo reveals why you don’t want to be standing behind her on an escalator on the Tube.
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Pre-Easter special
This week, the sap is rising in a pre-festive special. The Easter bunny and Gwyneth Paltrow, a new idea for a wellness book, and are Creme Eggs smaller than they used to be.
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