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BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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May 27, 2024 • 34min

Adam Frost talks Making a Show Garden

Join Gardeners’ World presenter and designer Adam Frost for a behind-the-scenes tour of show gardens at home and abroad, including gold medal-winning creations at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and exciting plans for a pot to plate garden at this year’s BBC Gardener’s World Live. Plus find top tips on how to best experience show gardens for ideas and inspiration to try out at home, and advice on how to create your own show garden if you’re a budding designer and thinking about giving it a go. Could another Chelsea show garden be in the mix? Tune in to find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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