Episodes

  • Inside Griff Rhy's Jones' Formal Garden

    Inside Griff Rhy's Jones' Formal Garden
    May 30 2024
    Comedian and writer Griff Rhys Jones is best known for starring in TV comedy series such as Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones. But Griff is also a keen gardener and has a gorgeous garden, full of carefully clipped topiary, at his home in East Anglia. Discover how he created this garden, how he is tackling box moth, and what his biggest gardening fear is. Plus he reveals the tribulations of having a public footpath running through your garden and what he thinks his greatest legacy will be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    44 mins
  • Adam Frost talks Making a Show Garden

    Adam Frost talks Making a Show Garden
    May 27 2024
    Join Gardeners’ World presenter and designer Adam Frost for a behind-the-scenes tour of show gardens at home and abroad, including gold medal-winning creations at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and exciting plans for a pot to plate garden at this year’s BBC Gardener’s World Live. Plus find top tips on how to best experience show gardens for ideas and inspiration to try out at home, and advice on how to create your own show garden if you’re a budding designer and thinking about giving it a go. Could another Chelsea show garden be in the mix? Tune in to find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    34 mins
  • Sowalong - Daucus Carrota with Celestina Robertson

    Sowalong - Daucus Carrota with Celestina Robertson
    May 24 2024
    Add some bohemian romance to your flower arrangements with this wild carrot flower, daucus carrota! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 mins
  • Inside Patrick Gale's Rose-Filled Coastal Garden

    Inside Patrick Gale's Rose-Filled Coastal Garden
    May 22 2024
    Cornwall is famous for having a near sub-tropical climate with average temperatures staying above 10c for much of the year. One gardener who is taking advantage of these milder but changeable growing conditions is Patrick Gale, a passionate gardener and the best-selling author of Notes from an Exhibition, A place called Winter and Mother’s Boy, among a substantial list of other novels. Patrick’s garden is thought to be the most westerly walled rose garden in the UK and is open to the public by appointment and via the National Garden Scheme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    36 mins
  • Behind the Scenes of the Chelsea Flower Show

    Behind the Scenes of the Chelsea Flower Show
    May 20 2024
    Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show? How the elaborate gardens are created and how on earth the judges compare a recreated quarry with a cottage garden? Eminent garden designer and Chelsea Flower Show judge James Alexander Sinclair is here to draw back the floral curtain and reveal the secrets of the judging process, how the spectacular show gardens are created and what it takes to win Best in Show! Plus discover what happens to the gardens after the show has finished, and what the future holds for Chelsea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    44 mins
  • Sowalong - Onions with Sheila Das

    Sowalong - Onions with Sheila Das
    May 17 2024
    Sheila Das, garden manager at RHS Garden Wisley, shares all about her onion obsession Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    9 mins
  • Challenging Garden Sites

    Challenging Garden Sites
    May 15 2024
    What do you do when you don't have a garden at home but still want to create a relaxing retreat? For Vicky ward and Maxine Stringer the answer came when they discovered a Bramble choked allotment style plot right by the sea where they live in Cornwall over the past 10 years they've worked hard to clear the land and create a garden that expresses their creativity and love for local plants and found objects. In 2022 they felt the time was right to enter the BBC gardeners world magazine gardens of the year competition they were chosen as a finalist and went on to win the People's Choice award. Enter your garden in the 2024 Gardens of the Year Competition at: GardenersWorld.com/garden-competition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    33 mins
  • Bridgerton's Floral Feasts

    Bridgerton's Floral Feasts
    May 13 2024
    Join us as we talk all things Bridgerton, and step into a world of Regency romps and floral feasts. We’ll catch up with star of the show Adjoa Andoh, to hear about what it was like filming in some of the UK’s great stately homes and gardens, her own love of gardening and how she finds ‘solace in the soil’. We talk to production designer Alison Gartshore about bringing this fantastical world to our screens, before chatting to garden designer Holly Johnston about what it was like to bring that world to life at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    50 mins