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BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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Feb 9, 2023 • 47min

Building relationships with Karin Blak

Do you garden with your partner? Is your outside space somewhere you nurture together, having an equal say on what you grow and how everything looks? Or is gardening something that causes argument and conflict in your relationship? Are you constantly at odds with your partner about what happens just outside your back door? Adam Frost chats to relationship therapist and writer, Karin Blak to explore how gardening together can be the key to a happy relationship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Feb 7, 2023 • 9min

Sowalong – Chilli 'Hungarian Hot Wax' with Adam Duxbury

Beat the winter blues by sowing chilli seeds now for a spicy, bumper harvest this year in this sowalong podcast with BBC Gardeners' World Magazine features coordinator Adam Duxbury Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Feb 2, 2023 • 49min

Breathing clear with Prof Jennifer Gabrys

Having clean air to breath is vital to our very existence, but pollution is a problem and many parts of the world, cities in particular, are choking. Is there a solution? Could gardening, plants and trees be the answer to solving this serious crisis? Adam Frost chats to Professor Jennifer Gabrys the Chair in Media, Culture and Environment at the University of Cambridge, about the role plants can play in addressing air pollution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jan 26, 2023 • 43min

Helping hospitals with Maria Leong and Alice Cornwell

Hospitals can be frightening and emotional places, so anything we can do to make visiting one easier has to be a good thing. I’ve seen first-hand how a hospital garden can really help alleviate stress for patients, visitors and staff, so should all hospitals have one? Adam Frost chats to Dr Maria Leong and Alice Cornwell, Community Development Officer for the RHS. They’re both involved in a garden Adam designed for University Hospital Lewisham, so the three of them appreciate the importance of creating green spaces where hospital staff and patients can reflect and recharge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jan 19, 2023 • 41min

Keeping fit with Tyler Lowe

Can a session in the garden do as much good as an hour in the gym or a run round the park? Is gardening the key to keeping us fit, healthy and physically active? Or is it overdoing it outside dangerous and likely to cause injury in the long run? Adam Frost chats to to physical therapist, Tyler Lowe to discover how gardening can improve all aspects of our physical health, along with ways to avoid ending up with an injury in the process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jan 12, 2023 • 56min

A happy head with Prof Harriet Gross

If you garden regularly, you’ll know that time spent tending your plot makes you feel good. When we're feeling stressed, anxious or overwhelmed a bit of time pottering about outside helps us feel better? But why? What is it about gardening that boosts our mood so positively? Adam Frost talks to Professor Harriet Gross, author of The Psychology of Gardening, to understand exactly why gardening is so beneficial for our mental health and wellbeing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jan 5, 2023 • 47min

Eating healthily with Sonal Shah

We all know that eating a fresh, balanced diet is a key part of staying fit and healthy, but could you do more to improve what you consume every day? And would you be surprised to hear that gardening could be the place to start? Adam Frost talks to nutritional therapist, Sonal Shah. Sonal believes there are lots of benefits to eating homegrown food Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jan 2, 2023 • 4min

Adam Frost’s Gardening for Health Trailer

Would you believe that gardening can improve your physical and mental health? And that it could be the key to eating healthily, combatting loneliness and improving your relationship with your partner? Well it’s true – gardening really can help all of these things and Adam Frost, of BBC Gardeners’ World, wants to take you on a journey to find out why. Join Adam as he chats to doctors, community workers, nutritional therapists and more about the undeniable health benefits of gardening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Dec 29, 2022 • 9min

Tales from Titchmarsh: Being optimistic

Who knows what the new year ahead will hold in store, but Alan Titchmarsh reflects on how the weather will keep us on our toes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Dec 27, 2022 • 8min

Tales from Titchmarsh: Being patient

We all find it difficult to be patient at times, but Alan Titchmarsh shares why it's worth the effort when it comes to gardening Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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