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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Nov 16, 2023 • 23min
How to grow veg in winter with Rekha Mistry
You can grow veg year round! We catch up with Rekha who is growing her veg this winter for the first time in her new garden up north. She reveals what you can start growing as well as the benefits of getting growing now. She also shares what she will be doing to protect her crops in weather colder than she has previously grown in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 14, 2023 • 11min
Gardeners' Favourites - David Hurrion's favourite plants for winter scent
Enjoy a waft of glorious winter fragrance with these five must-have plants. David Hurrion shares the secrets of an aromatic garden to brighten up the coldest, darkest months of the year. He reveals the shrubs to go for, when they'll flower and where to plant them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 9, 2023 • 50min
Monty Don on discovering the world's greatest gardens
Monty Don, a TV presenter who visits the world's most beautiful gardens, shares the practical realities of filming overseas for a TV series. Topics include packing identical clothing for continuity, favorite overseas gardens, and meeting interesting characters along the way.
Nov 7, 2023 • 16min
Gardeners' Favourites - Alan Titchmarsh's favourite gardening books for Christmas
Gardening books make the ideal Christmas gift for green-fingered friends and family, and who better to nominate a good read than acclaimed author, Alan Titchmarsh? He picks his favourite tomes from his bookshelf - from glossy coffee table books on design to historic wildflower ID and even works of gardening fiction - there's something for everyone! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 2, 2023 • 43min
Growing Greener - Rewilding, with Knepp
Rewilding has become one of the hottest topics in the gardening world. Rewilding approaches are appearing at flower shows, on TV gardening programmes, and in the pages of magazines. But can we use the approaches of large-scale rewilding to make our domestic gardens more sustainable? Can the success that has transformed the wildlife and biodiversity in huge estates, also work in an urban window box? The garden team from Knepp: Charlie Harpur, Moy Fierheller and Suzi Turner think they can. They join Arit to discuss the inspirational rewilding project at Knepp, and how these techniques can transform a domestic plot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 31, 2023 • 58sec
Gardeners' Favourites: Trailer
Welcome to Gardeners' Favourites, a new podcast series featuring Alan Titchmarsh, Kate Bradbury and the team here at Gardeners World Magazine. We reveal our favourites and share why we love them. So join us for Gardeners' favourites, perhaps you'll discover your new gardening favourite. Episodes every Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 26, 2023 • 42min
Growing Greener - Why Compost? With Ken Thompson
Compost is amazing for your plants, your soil, and the biodiversity in your garden. Pus making your own saves you money. So why do only one third of gardeners make their own? Many think that compost is: “Hard work, prone to failure, smelly and full of rats.”, not so, Ken Thompson, author of ‘Compost’ argues. Ken joins Arit to discuss and dispel the myths and misunderstandings of composting, and to convince listeners that compost is environmental black gold, not a load of old rot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 24, 2023 • 25min
Tea-Break Tutorials - Caring for Houseplants in Winter
Winter can be hard on your houseplants, so follow Alan's no-fuss guide to keeping them looking good with just a few simple steps, from poinsettias and Christmas cactus to the nation's favourite moth orchids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 18, 2023 • 37min
Growing Greener - Low Carbon Cut Flowers with Celestina Robertson
Flowers play a central part in our gardens, art, books, and many significant ceremonies around the world. Colourful, full of scent and architectural, flowers help us mark the big events in our lives. But the environmental price of our bouquets can be very high. Cel Robertson is a passionate eco-conscious, flower farmer, she shares practical solutions to growing flowers that look fabulous, smell gorgeous but have a small environmental footprint. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 17, 2023 • 11min
Tea-Break Tutorials - What to Prune in Winter
Get your gardening gloves on and gather your tools to do some invigorating winter pruning of shrubs and climbers. Winter pruning stimulates new growth so listen to Alan’s guide to which plants to prune and which to leave. With a few clear rules to follow you’ll be pruning with confidence to improve the shape, health and even flowering of climbers, shrubs, fruit trees and roses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
