BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
Alle afleveringen
633 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
-
Flower arranging for the Royal Family, with Shane Connolly
10 juli 2025 · 52 min
Shane Connolly, reveals what it's like to arrange the flowers for a royal wedding and how to create a bouquet that's worthy of a princess. Shane created the floral installations for two royal weddings, including Prince William and Catherine, and the Coronation of King Charles. He shares the secrets behind his spectacular designs and how he manages without floral foam.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
My Desert Island plants, with Carol Klein
8 juli 2025 · 49 min
In Carol Klein's illustrious career, she's come across more plants than most and is bursting with fascinating facts and entertaining anecdotes about almost all of them. In this special episode, Carol reveals the plants she'd take with her to a desert island and what makes them so special, and what her luxury item of choice would be too.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Travel Tales - Nevada, USA
5 juli 2025 · 10 min
Enjoy botanical and cultivated gardens in the desert state of Nevada, where it's not all about gambling and cacti. With breathtaking scenery and spectacular views, the area is also known for its stargazing. Full of adventure, history, culture, and community there's plenty to satisfy the appetite of a garden and nature lover.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
The secrets of wildflowers, with Chris Thorogood
3 juli 2025 · 45 min
Chris Thorogood, botanist at Oxford University, reveals the impact that wildflowers can have on us, as well as around the world and with the wildlife around us. He shares how and why it's so crucial that we make space for wildflowers in our gardens, woodlands, roadsides, and urban areas.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
How Wimbledon Tennis keeps its grass green and flowers blooming
1 juli 2025 · 35 min
Go behind the scenes at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon ahead of The Championships to discover spectacular floral displays, meticulous grass care, biodiversity, and bees.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Marigolds with Sonya Patel Ellis
28 juni 2025 · 12 min
With their open, daisy like flower heads, marigolds are pollinator friendly plants and are great for planting next to crops such as tomatoes or courgettes.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Inside the Glastonbury gardens, with Beth Llewellyn
26 juni 2025 · 37 min
The Peace Garden is at the heart of the Glastonbury Festival and is a tribute to mother earth, with its beautiful flowers and seating areas. The garden's creator Beth Llewellyn reveals how the Peace Garden came about and the stories of the permanent gardens at the festival.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
My Ukrainian gardening traditions, with Olia Hercules
24 juni 2025 · 43 min
Embracing language, traditions, and folklore are an important part of how chef, author, and gardener Olia Hercules grows and cooks. Discover how her Ukrainian roots, spirit, and connection to the land inspire her passion for growing.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Chard with Matt Biggs
21 juni 2025 · 10 min
The coloured stems of chard are a highlight. They're vivid and glossy and to be honest with you, they're as much at home in a tropical border as they are in a veg garden.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Veg growing for beginners, with Amy Chapman
19 juni 2025 · 47 min
Gardener and veg-grower Amy Chapman shares everything you need to know if you want to grow your own food but aren't sure how to get started, including the easiest vegetables to grow, organic problem-solving tips, and why ducks are the ultimate pest control. Amy talks us through the highs and lows of growing your own food and how we can all have a few more successes.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Create show-stopping pots, with Arit Anderson
17 juni 2025 · 40 min
Award-winning garden designer and presenter Arit Anderson discusses how you can get the best from growing plants in pots. She shares tips to help your container displays look beautiful and the secret to keeping your plants healthy. Growing in containers is a lovely way to introduce colour, scent and seasonal interest into your plot no matter what size your garden. From patios and doorways to windowsills and tabletops, there are lots of places where containers can bring colour and joy.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Sweetcorn with Oliver Parsons
14 juni 2025 · 7 min
Sweetcorn is simple and easy to look after and there's no taste quite like a fresh cob taken from the plant and steamed straight away.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
A holistic and ecological approach to growing, with Jamie Walton
12 juni 2025 · 36 min
With increasing climate uncertainties and global environmental challenges, what changes can we make to the way we garden and grow food that can have a positive impact on our local environment, its ecosystems and indeed the health of our planet. Join ecological horticulturalist and conservationist Jamie Walton to discover how to garden and grow our own food in a holistic and ecological way.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
In my garden in summer, with Frances Tophill
10 juni 2025 · 45 min
Is there a more beautiful thing than a garden in summertime with flowers at their peak, wonderful light evenings, plenty of good weather, and a chance to spend lots of time outdoors. Our gardens really do come into their own in the summer months. Frances Tophill discusses how we use outdoor spaces, and what summer means to her.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Ox-Eye Daisy with Claire Vennis
7 juni 2025 · 8 min
The largest of the Daisy family, the oxide daisy is a perennial and native wildflower that can be grown in ornamental flower borders in a meadow and in wildlife corners too.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Make a metre matter, with Nick Bailey
5 juni 2025 · 37 min
This year, at BBC Gardener's World magazine, we've spearheaded a campaign called Make a Metre Matter, which is all about transforming just one metre of outdoor space for the good of the planet. Garden designer and Gardeners’ World presenter Nick Bailey has lots of inspiration as he reveals plans for his Plant Based Garden at this year’s Gardeners’ World Live show.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Monty Don and savouring the scent of summer
3 juni 2025 · 39 min
The scent of sweet peas, the sound of buzzing bees, the feeling of grass under your feet, these sensory sensations are all part of a garden in summer. With summer getting into full swing at Longmeadow, discover more about the sights, sense and sounds there and the role they play in Monty Don's garden.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Nasturtiums with Matt Biggs
31 mei 2025 · 10 min
Nasturtiums are easy to grow plants and their cheerful flowers have inspired gardeners of many generations.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Create a garden that transports you to a different place, with Jo and Andi Butler
29 mei 2025 · 43 min
Jo and Andi Butler entered the BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Gardens of the Year competition last year. Find out about their experience of entering the competition, winning the coveted People's Choice Award, opening their garden to the public, and what their gardening plans are for the future.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Embracing regenerative gardening, with Marian Boswall
27 mei 2025 · 46 min
Would you believe that your garden, however big or small, could do some good in the face of the climate crisis? That it could help combat habitat and biodiversity loss, and also be a beautiful and personal sanctuary? Well, it's true. And the secret to all this and more lies in taking a regenerative approach to your outside space as leading landscape architect and horticulturalist Marian Boswall explains.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Beetroot with Adam Duxbury
24 mei 2025 · 8 min
One of the easiest vegetables to grow, beetroot is also incredibly versatile to use in the kitchen and it's packed with nutrients.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
How to succeed with peat-free, with Arit Anderson
22 mei 2025 · 35 min
As gardeners, we all know the environmental impact of peat, and why we need to stop using it. The challenge is how to garden successfully without using peat. Peat-free composts can be variable and more expensive than peat-based options. But award-winning garden designer and long-time sustainability advocate Arit Anderson has some top tips to help us all grow better without peat.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Get Better Yields for Less Effort Through Permaculture, with Huw Richards
20 mei 2025 · 36 min
What is permaculture, and why is everyone suddenly talking about it? To find out, we spoke with veg-growing YouTuber and author Huw Richards. He shows how it's all about following a handful of simple principles – principles that anyone can apply, even on a balcony.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Lettuce with Claire Vennis
17 mei 2025 · 10 min
Easy to grow and with so many varieties to choose from in many colours, shapes and textures, lettuce is a fabulous vegetable to grow from seed.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Show-Stopping Plant Combinations, with Carol Klein
15 mei 2025 · 49 min
Do you know the secret to creating show-stopping planting combinations? Combining plants in ways that means they look good and grow well together. Plantswoman Carol Klein has spent decades growing and exhibiting plants at over 200 RHS shows, winning a slew of gold medals. Her encyclopaedic plant knowledge combined with her artistic flair makes her a master of the art and science of combing plants successfully. Carol reveals how we can all add a little of her planting flair to our gardens.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Behind the scenes of Jo Thompson's medal-winning Chelsea Flower Show garden
13 mei 2025 · 38 min
This year's flower show season is well and truly upon us, and one of the highlights is, of course, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Multi-award winning garden designer and plants woman, Jo Thompson, describes her Chelsea show garden and the story behind it celebrating the transformative effect of second chances through horticulture. Hear Jo's experience of designing show gardens and how her innovative, diverse, compassionate, and romantic approach to garden design has helped her forge an inspiring career.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Courgettes with Catherine Mansley
10 mei 2025 · 9 min
Courgettes are a great crop to grow with kids, as they're pretty reliable, and come in wonderful shapes and colours.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
In my garden with Jasper Conran
8 mei 2025 · 35 min
Famous for designing clothes and home furnishings, discover how Jasper Conran brings his famous design style to his Dorset garden. He also shares his inspiration for creative planting, engaging in the surrounding landscape for a wider garden picture, and his passion for nature and connecting to the countryside.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Grow a kitchen garden from scratch in a tiny space, with Martha Swales
6 mei 2025 · 50 min
Want to start growing but not sure where to start? Martha Swales shares her inspiring tips on what to grow and how to get started, no matter how small your space. Martha also discusses accidentally amassing a following on social media and her passion for turning harvests into delicious recipes.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Eschscholzia with Kevin Smith
3 mei 2025 · 8 min
It's easy to grow these hardy annuals and, if you let them grow and self seed, it's almost impossible not to have them as part of your plot forever.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Make your garden more sustainable, with Poppy Okotcha
1 mei 2025 · 46 min
Do you like the idea of becoming more self-sufficient, living more in harmony with nature and in a way that is more environmentally sustainable? Poppy Okotcha gave up a glamorous modelling career, and moved to Devon where she’s creating a wild garden, following regenerative gardening principles. Poppy shares what regenerative gardening and permaculture are, how it all works and how we can all bring a bit more wildness and joy into our lives.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Super-charge the colour in your garden, with Ann-Marie Powell
29 april 2025 · 36 min
Adding colour can transform a garden or outdoor space – and it can be a way of expressing personality and creativity, but how do we make sure our colour choices work well in the garden for year-round interest and enjoyment? And that our potentially flamboyant designs don’t end up a chaotic mess. Ann-Marie Powell, award-winning garden designer, discusses how to bring gorgeous colour into the garden.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Zinnia with Matt Biggs
26 april 2025 · 9 min
Zinnias are found in the wild in Mexico and southwestern USA. So you instantly know that they love warmth and sunshine. So bring on the long hot summers
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Can Gardening Save the World? With Dr Harry Watkins
24 april 2025 · 33 min
With the joint challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss looming, how can we gardeners make a difference? To find out, we spoke to Dr Harry Watkins, Director of St Andrews Botanic Garden (a participating garden for this year's GW 2-for-1 Gardens scheme) where he's heading up a novel approach to gardening in the face of these two big challenges, and making some very bold decisions indeed.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
In My Garden with Sarah Beeny
22 april 2025 · 42 min
Enjoying her Somerset estate with her family, Sarah Beeny discusses managing the farmland as well as the garden space. As custodians of the land for now and future generations, Sarah is inspired to encourage wildlife, plant trees and hedgerows and improve soil health. She also delights in time spent in her greenhouse and discloses plans she has for the coming gardening year.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Sunflower with Claire Vennis
19 april 2025 · 9 min
When sunflowers start to bloom, there's nothing like it. Their heads light up any garden and are a haven for wildlife.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Buy the best plants and bag a bargain, with Matthew Wilson
17 april 2025 · 47 min
Do you know the secrets to getting a good deal at the garden centre? When you’re presented with rows of plants for sale, can you pick out the healthy plants that are bursting with life, and avoid the plants that are not going to last. Designer and Gardeners' Question Time-regular Matthew Wilson previously ran London’s oldest nursery, and he going to help us choose the best plants on our next trip to the garden centre.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Garden design ideas, with Pollyanna Wilkinson
15 april 2025 · 45 min
Do you know the secrets to getting a good deal at the garden centre? When you’re presented with rows of plants for sale, can you pick out the healthy plants that are bursting with life, and avoid the plants that are not going to last. Designer and Gardeners' Question Time-regular Matthew Wilson previously ran London’s oldest nursery, and he going to help us choose the best plants on our next trip to the garden centre.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Squash with Oliver Parsons
12 april 2025 · 8 min
From a single squash seed comes an enormous plant, bearing outrageously beautiful, sometimes rather exotic, and really quite tasty fruits.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Grow More Veg in a Small Space, with Adam Frost
10 april 2025 · 44 min
Do you want to grow your own veg but have limited space? Perhaps you've got room for a window box or a few containers and don't know where to start. Maybe you're dreaming of fresh, homegrown fruit but don't quite know how to fit it into your plot. Gardeners' World presenter Adam Frost reveals how you can grow your own harvests, no matter how small your growing space.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Avoid Gardening Injuries, with Sue Kent
8 april 2025 · 42 min
Many of us are itching to get out in the garden when spring finally arrives and the weather allows. It feels fantastic to be out in the garden once again, but with much to do and prepare for the coming gardening season, how can we make sure our gardening enthusiasm doesn't get the better of us and we end up with aches and pains or even incur an injury? Gardeners' World presenter and remedial massage therapist Sue Kent offers gardener care advice.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Onions with Matt Biggs
5 april 2025 · 12 min
Onion soup, onion gravy, in our cheese and onion sandwiches, onion bread. You just can't get away from onions. They're a staple in a whole range of dishes and a must grow crop for the garden.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Your Best Spring Garden, with Frances Tophill
3 april 2025 · 40 min
April showers, longer lighter days, sunshine and birdsong are all signs that spring is here. There’s an energy that’s awoken and we’re all raring to get out in the garden once again. Plantsperson, author and BBC Gardeners’ World presenter, Frances Tophill, shares what we should be doing in the garden in Spring and how to get started for the year.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Monty Don Reveals his Garden Plans for the Year
1 april 2025 · 39 min
Spring has well and truly sprung and our gardens are bursting into life. It's a time of excitement and anticipation for the growing year ahead. Monty Don reveals his gardening plans for the year at Longmeadow, what he loves about spring, and shares details about his upcoming Chelsea Flower Show garden.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Spring Trailer
31 maart 2025 · 1 min
Start your gardening year with growing inspiration in the Spring Conversations podcast from BBC Gardeners' World Magazine. Discover garden design ideas, the best plants to buy, how to bring colour to the garden, veg growing advice, gardening in urban spaces and ways to engage in the natural world, and more. Tune in every Tuesday and Thursday for all your gardening needs this Spring. Lees meer
Also join us every Saturday as our Sowalong series continues. Sowalong with the magazine team as they sow the seeds supplied in the magazine, along with additional seasonal seeds to try too.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
-
Sowalong - Sweet Peas with Kevin Smith
29 maart 2025 · 11 min
Surprise someone with a fragrant bunch of sweetpeas or grow them for yourself. The flowers are just magic.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices -
Ask Alan - House Plants
27 maart 2025 · 35 min
In this episode of Ask Alan, Alan Titchmarsh gives watering and feeding advice for house plants, discusses the ideal situation including light levels and how to combat bugs, provides help for non-flowering orchids, and more. Don’t forget to listen for the Wild Card question to see if it's your's!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Ask Alan - Hydrangeas
25 maart 2025 · 26 min
How to reduce in size, when to prune, which variety to choose, how can you stop it drying out and can you change it's colour are a few of the Ask Alan questions Alan Titchmarsh answers in this episode on hydrangeas. Don’t forget to listen for the Wild Card question to see if it's your's!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Sowalong - Brussels Sprouts with Sarah Edwards
22 maart 2025 · 9 min
Brussels sprouts are one of the more divisive vegetables but they're associated with a reduced risk of developing a wide range of cancers, so sprouts are believed to be very good for you.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer -
Ask Alan - Pests and Diseases
20 maart 2025 · 29 min
In this episode of Ask Alan, Alan Titchmarsh offers organic help for tackling various plant ailments and pests in the garden and the greenhouse, in addition to how we can exist alongside wildlife. Don’t forget to listen for the Wild Card question to see if it's your's!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Lees meer