Gardening with the RHS Pixiu
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'Gardening with the RHS' offers seasonal advice, inspiration and practical solutions to gardening problems. Trusted gardening professionals give you the latest horticultural advice, scientific research and tried and tested techniques to bring out the best in your garden.
Topics covered include: growing your own vegetables, flowers, garden design, lawn care and gardening with children. Plus expert masterclasses in topics ranging from cottage garden plants, growing orchids, to pest control and eco-friendly gardening.
Plus we’ll have behind the scenes reports from the country’s most prestigious flower shows. There’s something in these podcasts to interest every gardener, whatever your level of expertise.
For more info see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast
A Pixiu production.
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The Piet Oudolf Landscape, Bumbles on Blooms, Plant Propagation
Often referred to as “the greatest living landscape designer” and a leading figure of the New Perennial movement – Piet Oudolf joins curator Matthew Pottage to talk about his new landscape at RHS Garden Wisley. Helen Bostock also introduces the new Bumbles on Blooms project, and the plants you should choose to help support over 250 species of bees in the UK - some with rather particular tastes. Plus, Sam Gallivan, Leader of the Nursery and Propagation team at Wisley talks about propagating plants at scale.
Presenter: Gareth Richards
Contributors: Matthew Pottage, Piet Oudolf, Helen Bostock, Sam Gallivan
Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk
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Bumbles on Blooms
iNaturalist
Oudolf Landscape
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Greener Containers, Plant Name Changes, and Chaenomeles
Garden designer and writer Ann Treneman shares ideas from her new book RHS Greener Gardening: Containers, explaining how you can create sustainable ecosystems whatever size your space. Jenny Laville speaks with RHS botanist James Armitage to untangle taxonomy, and discuss why plant names keep changing. And Gareth Richards meets David Ford, the holder of the National Plant Collection of Chaenomeles in Surrey, to talk about his love affair with the plant and why they’re due a mainstream revival.
Presenter: Guy Barter
Contributors: Ann Treneman, Jenny Laville, James Armitage, Gareth Richards, David Ford
Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk
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Greener Gardening Containers
RHS Plant Finder
Plant Heritage: National Plant Collections -
Garden Carbon Footprints, Wasps in Springtime, and Pruning Shrubby Hydrangeas
This week Guy Barter and RHS Sustainability Fellow Chloe Sutcliffe react to a recent study published in the journal Nature Cities that claims that urban agriculture has a carbon footprint up to 6 times bigger than conventional agriculture – discussing what this means for allotmenteers and community gardeners, and how we should be thinking about our environmental impact. Entomologist and wasp defender Serian Sumner explains why spring is the perfect time to make peace with yellowjackets, as the queens emerge from hibernation. And the RHS’s Adrian Thorne gives us a practical guide to pruning shrubby hydrangeas.
Presenter: Gareth Richards
Contributors: Guy Barter, Chloe Sutcliffe, Serian Sumner, Adrian Thorne
Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk
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Nature Cities: Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture
Endless Forms by Serian Sumner
Shrubby Hydrangeas
The Garden Magazine -
Blight-Resistant Tomatoes, Harmonious Borders, and the Women Who Shaped the RHS
This week, we’re trying to honour March in all its glory. We’re delving into tasty and blight-resistant tomato varieties. We’re exploring how to build and renovate harmonious and colourful borders. And finally, to celebrate International Women’s Day and the 220th anniversary of the RHS, we’re turning back the clock to honour a few of the women who’ve shaped the organisation.
Presenter: Guy Barter
Contributors: Simon Crawford, Susie Pasley-Tyler, Fiona Davison
Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk
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How to grow tomatoes
Tomato blight
Gardening with Colour at Coton Manor
An Almost Impossible Thing -
Apple Pruning, Allotment Preparation, and the Thinking Behind Plant Names
This week we’re exploring small but useful nuggets of information that have the potential to change the way we interact with our surroundings this growing season. We’re getting seasonal tips on GYO – things like training and pruning apple trees and preparing allotments for the busiest time of year. And, we’re delving into plant names – and the system behind our classifications.
Presenter: Guy Barter
Contributors: Andy Lewis, Jenny Laville, James Armitage
Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk
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Apples and pears: winter gardening
The Newt in Somerset – an RHS Partner Garden
Allotments: getting started
RHS Practical Latin for Gardeners
Untangling Latin Names -
Notes on Hardiness
This week, we’re investigating what exactly makes a plant hardy, how tropical plants survive British winters, and the ways in which what thrives here may be changing – especially in urban environments like London. Presenter Gareth Richards and RHS botanist James Armitage take a tour of weird and wacky tender trees that have survived here against all odds. And, Hillary Collins of Grafton Nursery gives us a behind the scenes look at what you can do to help your eucalyptus withstand British winters.
Presenter: Gareth Richards
Contributors: James Armitage and Hilary Collins
Contact: podcasts@rhs.org.uk
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Mediterranean garden plants
RHS hardiness ratings
Hardy Eucalyptus (Grafton Nursery)
Customer Reviews
Love listening
I listen frequently. I love all the information you pass on. I am from the USA. I have no problem with the accent or the rate of speech!! But I do listen to a lot of British podcasts.
Peat is sustainable
I live on a peat bog. That eas s pete farm. If grows yearly. I totally disagree with your gardening falsehoods. You are slaying plants you call annuals as you are preventing pete from happening in a natural way. Annuals are not a crop. Let them live and regenerate this bog called earth
Great show, but….
I would like to say that I listen all of the time. I don’t. And only because every single episode is in an England dialect with fast speed talking hosts, who clearly speak to their continent only. Literally can’t understand half of what they say. Year after year. Just slow down and speak clearly. Wish your podcast was for everyone and not just local Londonites.