BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
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Listen to gardening inspiration from some of the UK’s most loved and well-respected gardening experts in the award-winning BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine podcast. Enjoy growing advice throughout the year with our Conversations series. Join Monty Don, Frances Tophill, Adam Frost, Arit Anderson, Carol Klein and more for friendly gardening chat and informative discussion with the magazine team, perfect for everyone who enjoys gardening. Hear Alan Titchmarsh solve your gardening problems in Ask Alan, find advice for what to do in the garden in our What To Do Now series, and travel the globe with the BBC Gardeners’ World magazine team in Travel Tales: Gardens of the World.With new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday and bonus episodes every Saturday, subscribe now, wherever you get your podcasts, and never miss an episode. Find out more at GardenersWorld.com/podcast
Episodes
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Jan 1, 2026 • 4min
Wellness Series Trailer
Give your mental and physical health a boost this January and February with a new Wellness podcast series from BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 30, 2025 • 54min
In Conversations at Kew with Frances Tophill and Adam Frost
Frances Tophill, a garden presenter and author, blends her practical gardening wisdom with fun book insights. Adam Frost, a garden designer and television personality, shares his experiences from public landscaping to gardening tips. They dive into their gardening origins, play a 'love and hate' game about plants, and discuss the influences of mentors like Geoff Hamilton. The duo also reflects on their television journeys and the impact of gardening in personal and community spaces, all while sharing delightful anecdotes about pets on set.
Dec 27, 2025 • 8min
What To Do Now - Houseplants To The Rescue
When there’s hardly any green outside and it’s too early to start sowing seeds and growing plants, why not look to the refreshing shape, colour and stature of house plants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 25, 2025 • 26min
Behind the scenes at RHS Wisley Herbarium, with Yvette Harvey
How can a living library conserve and preserve gardening history and shape our understanding of nature? Step inside the quiet and fascinating world of the Herbarium at RHS Wisley to uncover a combination of beauty and science pressed between thousands of pages, along with ancient flowers, dried leaves and stories of where they came from with Yvette Harvey, the Keeper of the Herbarium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 23, 2025 • 36min
Monty Don's Christmas at Longmeadow
With the festive season fast approaching, Christmas can be a busy time with no end of tasks to keep us busy on the run up to the big day, but what role can our gardens play in all of this? Whether it's homegrown veg for the festive table or garden gathered greenery and berries for a homemade door reef, our gardens can be a source of great bounty and a place to escape to, of course. Monty Don describes Christmas at Longmeadow and tell us why it's a time for all of us to take a breather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 20, 2025 • 8min
What To Do Now - Clean and service gardening tools
Cleaning hand tools is not particularly glamorous, but it's one of those jobs that gives a lot satisfaction and maintaining your hand tools will reward you with more efficient and safer to use tools that will last for many seasons to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 18, 2025 • 36min
Festive traditions, with Frances Tophill
For a lot of people, this time of year is all about cosying up indoors, but out in the garden there's still so much fun to be had from making natural wreaths and decorating with evergreens, to feeding the birds, sewing onions, and even bringing in a little magic indoors with some festive foliage. Join Frances for Christmassy folklore and the little seasonal rituals and cheerful jobs that make festive gardening feel special. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 16, 2025 • 29min
How to have a stylish and sustainable Christmas, with Arit Anderson
It's the time of year when we start thinking about how to make our homes feel festive and, instead of reaching for tinsel and glitter, why not look to the garden for inspiration? Arit reveals how to decorate for a stylish and natural Christmas, combining sustainability with beauty, and explores what to gather from the garden, how to design with natural colour and texture, and ways to make your decorations last throughout the festive season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 13, 2025 • 13min
Christmas gift ideas from the GW team
With Christmas fast approaching and the desire to find the right gardening present for the right person, why not look to source sustainable gardening gifts for your friends and family. Even if the recipients aren’t green-fingered, the Gardeners’ World magazine team have you covered with a selection of our favourite gifts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 11, 2025 • 44min
Gardening memories, with Carol Klein
In this engaging discussion, Carol Klein, an experienced gardener and beloved TV presenter, shares her transformative journey from diverse jobs to her true calling in gardening. She fondly reminisces about her childhood love for wildflowers and how family influences shaped her path. Carol spills delightful anecdotes from prestigious flower shows and reflects on her unexpected rise to television fame. With a passion for teaching gardening to children, she envisions a future filled with more planting adventures and inspiring young green thumbs.
