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Each week we talk to RHS experts, along with garden designers, scientists, growers, and the movers and shakers of the horticultural world
Our award-winning Gardening with the RHS podcast offers seasonal advice, inspiration and practical solutions to gardening questions.Trusted gardening professionals give you the latest horticultural advice, scientific research and tried-and-tested techniques to bring out the best in your garden.Listen to the lastest episodes or subscribe for all episodes.
In the stunning Colour Gardens at The Newt In Somerset, Joe Dransfield explains how a monochrome approach to flowers can deliver dazzling impact. Liz Mooney shares grow your own tips from the World Food Garden at RHS Wisley, including peas, radishes and cardoons. And we hear the inspirational and unconventional story of Roka Brings Flowers – a grower and florist who started a wonderful cut flower business from a narrowboat with a floating greenhouse in tow.
Useful links: How to grow peas | How to grow radishes | Cynara cardunculus | The Newt Garden | Roka Brings Flowers
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 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 debunk more plant terminology – this time talking about ‘hybrids’ – what they are, how they occur and how they can be used to your advantage.
Useful links: RHS Rosemoor | Growing parsnips | Growing shallots | Growing potatoes | F1 hybrids | Shrouded in Light
In this episode, 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. And RHS Wisley Horticulturist Jack Aldridge sings an ode to his favourite flowering shrub, the Stachyurus.
Useful links: RHS Wisley Oakwood | RHS Gardening Advice | Grow your own | Buy Stachyurus from RHS Plants
In this episode, Piet Oudolf joins curator Matthew Pottage to talk about his new landscape at RHS Wisley. Helen Bostock introduces the Bumbles on Blooms project, and the plants you should choose to help support more than 250 species of bees in the UK – some with rather particular tastes. Plus, Sam Gallivan, Leader of the Nursery and Propagation team at RHS Wisley talks about propagating plants at scale.
Useful links: Bumbles on Blooms | Piet Oudolf landscape | Dividing perennials
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.
Useful links: RHS Greener Gardening: Containers | RHS Plant Finder | Plant Heritage: National Plant Collections
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