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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Jun 20, 2024 • 49min
Plants for Free with Carol Klein
Join expert Carol Klein as she shares her propagation prowess, discussing the joys of making plants for free through cuttings, division, and seeds. Learn about growing primulas from seeds and various propagation techniques like layering and root cuttings. Explore the art and science of plant propagation with practical tips on propagating plants like Rubekia and Heleniums. Discover the rewards of starting with seeds and the challenges of propagating plants with hollow stems.
Jun 17, 2024 • 32min
Colour in the Garden
A garden full of colour all year round: it’s what most of us want from our outdoor spaces. But how realistic is the dream of having non-stop colour in your garden? Plantsman, author, designer and TV presenter Nick Bailey has written a book on the subject – 365 Days of Colour in Your Garden. He’s also written a series for BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine called Secrets of a Colourful Garden – so he’s the perfect guide to take you on a journey of colour inspiration as he shares the perfect plants to choose and the theory behind creating year-round colour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 14, 2024 • 8min
Sowalong - French Beans with Oliver Parsons
French beans – there’s nothing quite like them. And there’s still time to get yours started for lovely fresh crops all through late summer. So join keen bean gardener and GW magazine sub editor Oliver Parsons as he shares his success and failures with these majestic towering crops – and learn his top tips for a bumper harvest this summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 12, 2024 • 37min
Allotment Life with Terry Walton
Terry Walton has been growing vegetables, fruit and flowers on his Rhondda Valley allotments in South Wales from a young age. With 50 years’ experience, Terry brings a wealth of allotment growing advice, practical gardening knowledge and tips learned over the years. Examining how gardening practises have changed and how climate, location and soil health effects gardening, the benefits of crop rotation and no dig practices, alongside what to grow every year for reliable crops. There are also allotment fails, lively stories and a colourful glimpse inside the world of allotment life. You can hear more from Terry and his allotment antics on his BBC Sounds Plocast podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 10, 2024 • 38min
Gardening for Wellbeing
There are many ways to enjoy nature around us, but how can working in harmony with nature boost our wellbeing? Art and horticultural psychotherapist, artist and gardener Errol Reuben Fernandes discusses why it’s important to take a more holistic approach to gardening. How do you work in the garden and what approaches do you take in the design? How do you choose which plants to include, does nature influence your choices and why do these choices affect our wellbeing? Errol approaches these questions and suggests what we can do to continue our connection with nature for wellbeing now and in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 7, 2024 • 8min
Sowalong - Dianthus 'Sooty' with Josie Lewis
An easy-to-grow biennial, this classy sweet William will give you masses of flowers from May to July and makes a wonderful cut flower. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 5, 2024 • 39min
Graveyard Gardening, Now and for the Future
D-Day 80th Anniversary Special: Can you imagine being responsible as a gardener for thousands of important sites across six continents? That’s the inspiring challenge that Commonwealth War Graves Commission Head of Horticulture David Richardson takes on every day. Join us on this 80th Anniversary of D-Day we meet him to discuss his exciting work across the world, helping to make these vital sites cleaner, greener – and just a little bit wilder, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 3, 2024 • 40min
Veg Growing for Time-Poor Gardeners
How do you plan, grow and enjoy produce from your plot throughout the year? What low-maintenance gardening tips can produce luscious legumes, robust roots and celebratory cucurbits? Plants-person, author and Gardeners’ World presenter, Frances Tophill discusses how to create a productive vegetable garden while juggling a busy life. With tips for what, where and how to grow, keeping on top of gardening jobs such as weeding, watering and pest control, advice for how to work with nature and if it’s okay to be messy. Also, find out what perennial vegetables Frances recommends for sustainable growing and healthy eating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 31, 2024 • 7min
Sowalong - Agretti with Gemma Sturges
If you’re on the hunt for an unusual crop that adds a tasty accent to savoury dishes, then look no further than agretti – it’s the Mediterranean vegetable everyone is talking about! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 30, 2024 • 44min
Inside Griff Rhy's Jones' Formal Garden
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
