BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
Immediate Media
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
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Jul 12, 2024 • 7min
Sowalong - Forget Me Nots with Kiya Ferraro
Find out how Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice encouraged Gardeners' World Magazine's Kiya Ferraro to sow Forget-me-nots as she encourages everyone to sow these flowers for a 'pretty ish kind of little wilderness.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 11, 2024 • 39min
Plant-based eating with Deliciously Ella Mills
We all know that eating fruit and veg is good for us. But how much impact can switching to a more plant-based diet really have on our health? Do plants have the power to keep us healthy and even cure ailments. Ella Mills, founder of Deliciously Ella, experienced for herself the dramatic difference a plant-based diet can make, and has since been on a mission to make it easier for the rest of us to eat more plants. Find out how we can all use plants, whether homegrown or shop-bought, to boost our health. Plus she shares quick and easy ways to squeeze more plants into meals, and make it easier for us all to eat more healthily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 8, 2024 • 34min
Making a new garden with Frances Tophill
How do you create a new garden that works best for you and what steps should you take, even before the spade first hits the ground? How do you decide what to grow, where is the best place to grow it and can you fit in everything that you’d like to grow? Horticulturist, author and presenter, Frances Tophill has spent a year in her new garden incorporating ideas and lessons she’s learned in her gardening career to create a space, just as she likes it. Frances discusses the approach she took to creating her new garden and provides practical take-aways for when starting a new garden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 5, 2024 • 8min
Sowalong - Spring Onions with Michael Sidhu
If you're looking for something quick and easy to grow this time of year, then spring onions could be for you! Join Michael from the Gardeners' World team to find out how. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 3, 2024 • 37min
Caroline Quentin shares her passion for gardening
Actress and comedian Caroline Quentin is best known for her roles in TV shows such as Men Behaving Badly and Jonathan Creek. What is less well known is that she is an incredibly keen gardener, and continues to garden and grow plants even when she is away on location filming. She created a large garden from scratch at her home in Devon, including a highly productive fruit and vegetable garden, a greenhouse which she has called the love of her life, a large pond, ornamental borders and more. She recently sold her home with the large garden and reveals why she has taken the decision to downsize now, and how it feels to leave behind a garden that holds to many precious memories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 1, 2024 • 42min
Working with nature on the veg patch with Sheila Das
Sheila Das, garden manager at RHS Garden Wisley responsible for edible growing and training programmes, looks at a new way of growing vegetables. Moving away from the conventional veg plot and into our next era of veg growing with less control and manipulation. With advice for minimizing input and encouraging nature to work with nature, Sheila discusses how biodiversity fits within a working kitchen garden and how taking a long-term view for the future of growing our own vegetables will establish a good balanced system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 28, 2024 • 8min
Sowalong - Chard with Claire Vennis
Sow this nutritious, easy-to-grow and vibrant vegetable for its edible leaves and stems. It’s a wonderful choice for your vegetable patch and your dinner table too says GW content creator Claire Vennis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 26, 2024 • 38min
Gardening for health & spirituality with Arit Anderson
Award-winning garden designer Arit Anderson discusses how gardening can positively impact health and spirituality. Topics include creating garden sanctuaries, the healing power of gardens, forest bathing for health benefits, and finding joy in unexpected garden moments.
Jun 24, 2024 • 39min
Garden Designer Secrets with James Alexander-Sinclair
There are so many garden designs, styles and trends to choose from. How do you create the designer look for your garden, no matter what the size? Garden designer, RHS Chelsea Show judge and regular BBC Gardeners’ World magazine contributor James Alexander Sinclair shares his garden design secrets for how to get your desired garden look, key elements for designing a garden, cost-effective gardening, gardening for nature and gardening for the location, as well as some tricks of the trade for making your garden look amazing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 21, 2024 • 13min
Sowalong - Lettuce and Salad Leaves with Sonya Patel Ellis
It's a great time of year to grow lettuce and salad leaves. Sown directly in the ground or in pots, grow a variety of leaves for delicious salads this summer. Follow this easy Sowalong guide from GW senior content creator Sonya Patel Ellis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
