Rae Wilkinson is an award winning Garden and Landscape designer based in Sussex and working throughout London, the South East and beyond. Originally from an Arts background, Rae worked as a landscaper with some top landscape designers on hard then soft landscaping and garden maintenance for over ten years prior to qualifying and working as a garden designer herself in 2007\. Her style combines sophistication with a sculptural, naturalistic feel, while a developed sense of sustainability and...

Over 2 episodes, the following tells the story of The Perennial Garden at RHS Flower Show Cardiff 2019.  The garden was designed to celebrate Perennial's 180th Anniversary.  More information: The RHS Perennial Garden 2019 The Sodshow is available every week in iTunes, sotify and all good podcast stores. The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow

Peter Donegan chats with Claire Greenslade, head gardener at Hestercombe.  Following a degree in fashion and textiles, working in the clothing industry and making stained glass windows, she went on to volunteer at the Barley Wood Walled Garden at Wrington. That was the springboard to a three year National Trust gardening apprenticeship at Barrington Court, and from there to Hestercombe where she is integral in the development and preservation of this historic estate. She says: “Hestercombe is...

Peter Donegan chats with Jean Perry of Glebe Gardens of Baltimore West Cork, with very special thanks to Bev and Miriam of West Cork Garden Trail. You can subscribe and listen to The Sodshow every week in spotify / iTunes and all good podcast stores.  Show Links: web : www.glebegardens.com Facebook: GlebeGardensCafe  West Cork Garden Trail:  web: www.westcorkgardentrail.com twitter: @WestCorkTrail  The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow

Jack Dunckley is one of the hottest garden design talents in the UK. He has a won over 20 prestigious awards for his achievements including 10 RHS medals at shows including RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Notably, he is the youngest medal winner for a show garden at Chelsea to date. I first came across Jack at Chelsea in 2016, at the time and to his credit it was the day before judging and understandably and logically, we never got around to that interview. Three year later and alongside Andrew...

Anita Bates works with Perennial, the UK’s only charity dedicated to helping everyone who works in horticulture, and their families, when times get tough. You can contact Perennial in the following ways: web: www.perennial.org.uk Twitter @PerennialGRBS Facebook: PerennialGrBS Or via the following: Telephone: 0800 093 8510 Email: [email protected] Write: Perennial 115 - 117 Kingston Road Leatherhead Surrey KT22 7SU

This episode of The Sodshow garden podcast is a little different as we hear from former guest Polly and a day by day journey through the build of her 2018 RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show garden, A Very Modern Problem.   The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, spotify all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com Further info: web: www.pollyannawilkinson.com twitter: @PollyannaWGD fb: PollyannaWilkinsonGardenDesign Much thanks for listening X Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The...

In studio with Andrew Fisher Tomlin, today alongside Peter Donegan we chat with Richard Wilford of Head of Garden Design at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. Richard has worked at Kew for over 30 years and albeit he was working with British Gas, he held a degree in Biology and started with a temporary job there before mbecoming responsible for a collection and moving into his current position. This episode with thanks to Andrew Fisher Tomlin and The London College of Garden Design.  Of himself...

This April 12 - 14, The Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show Cardiff 2019 takes place at Bute Park.  There is an update to this story required...... we'll get there in due course.  The Sodshow is available every week in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow

This 2019 Graham Bodle will design the Walkers’ Forgotten Quarry Garden at RHS Chelsea 2019.  On todays episode Andrew Fisher Tomlin and Peter Donegan with thanks to London College of Garden Design, chat with Graham about roses, conifers, trends and changes and just what it takes working in the industry of such a long period of time and staying fresh and at the top of your game for just so long.  Graham qualified and trained at Leeds with a bachelor of Arts degree in garden art and design in...

This is The Sodshow Garden Podcast listeners question time - Part 2 of 2 Over 2 episodes Lee Connelly sits down with Peter Donegan to ask all of the questions that you the listeners decided to ask. The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow

This is The Sodshow Garden Podcast listeners question time - Part 1 of 2 Over 2 episodes Lee Connelly sits down with Peter Donegan to ask all of the questions that you the listeners decided to ask. The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com  The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow

Ed Burnham is the brains behind Burnham Landscaping, based in London. In business since 2011, The Burnham team have built no less than 13 Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) gardens, their most recent being that for former guest Naomi Ferret Cohen at RHS Chelsea 2018.  The image above is from 2018 when Ed dropped by a garden I was realising in France and, though Ed and his team are due to build a garden with me at RHS Cardiff, this interview is not about that and very much about him and what he...

On this weeks episode of the garden podcast, a look at the other garden podcasts that are out there and not so much this one. Some have a large bag of dollars, some not mentioned in this at all (it's not a list), and others are just hard working class heroes to borrow a Joghn Lennon line who really, just love the gardening bits - and - if you like them and the cut of their jib, then get on the happy boat.  Not that this was produced in a rush, but I've to pack for an early flight and some...

With thanks London College of Garden Design for supporting...... In 2018 Kate Gould competed at Ascot Spring Garden Show, Singapore and at Chelsea. On todays show, Kate's second appearance on The Sodshow garden podcast, Peter Donegan with Andrew Fisher Tomlin of London College of Garden Design - of which I am very grateful for their support of this show and do please go check out their garden courses - chat with Kate about this, life as a designer, making show gardens work and of course and...

Ken White is the alongside his wife Sarah, is the Co-Founder of Supershoes Charity, that empowers children fighting Cancer in the UK. He is also Managing Director of Frosts Landscapes Construction, which has a heritage of over 45 years, winners of over 60 BALI Awards including the Grand Award in 2015 and is a multi Chelsea medal winning contractor. Of more recent, he completed the management buyout of Frosts Landscapes with 2 of his fellow directors Adrian Meeker and Fred Perry. Ken is also...

John Wyer is one half of one of the UK's finest landscaping and design companies Bowles and Wyer. On this episode of the garden podcast and with much thanks to London College of Garden Design, the legend sits for a chat with Peter Donegan. When I asked John for a biography, he gave me two: John started his working life in the mud on site, before studying landscape architecture at Manchester Polytechnic, qualifying in 1983\. He has worked in garden design and landscape architecture ever since,...

Peter Donegan chats with David Ward, Garden and Nursery Director at Beth Chatto Gardens. Beth Chatto was born and bred an “Essex Girl” with both her parents keen gardeners. She studied to become a teacher and always tried to include gardening in her classes. Beth married Andrew Chatto in 1943 and settled into domestic life, raising two daughters. Living next door to Ramparts nursery run by Pamela Underwood, Beth learnt the art of Flower arranging and was introduced to the local plantsman Sir...

Peter Donegan chats with Matthew Biggs; a gardener, writer and broadcaster On leaving school at sixteen he rapidly found office work too claustrophobic and rushed outdoors where he has remained happily ever since. He is currently developing his Hertfordshire garden and learning to love clay soil. Fascinated by plants of any kind he grows exotics, heritage fruit, unusual vegetables, tree and masses of bulbs. Matt is in love with Echium wildpretii has grown it several times in his garden but...

River of Flowers is a non-profit eco-social enterprise founded by rewilding strategist and botanist Kathryn Lwin and musician songwriter Peter Lewinson, which works in diverse partnerships to create trails or 'rivers' of wildflowers and wild flowering trees through cities for bees, butterflies and other pollinators. River of Flowers co-designed the Honeycomb Meadow Bee Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018 with Studio SuperNatural in partnership with Urban Bees, which achieved a Silver...

On todays episode Peter Donegan and Giles Heap of CED Natural Stone everything from trends in how stone in landscape design has evolved over the last 30 years, from what was (or, more to the point) what was not available, a super saturation of affordable sandstone and what the future maybe, all the way back to crazy paving, wooden sets and making your own in the 1970's.  We talk Giles eventual entry into the stone industry, going on holidays with Dad, how a daughters education and a change in...

This is part 1 of a 2 part episode - with Tim Richardson. Tim Richardson is a London-based writer, historian and critic specialising in landscape, gardens and art. He writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph and other publications including Country Life and Gardens Illustrated. He is the author of a number of books including Arcadian Friends (Bantam, 2007), Avant Gardeners (Thames & Hudson, 2008) and The New English Garden (2013). A collection of his journalism entitled You Should Have...

Linda Petrons, better known to me as Lou, is the Director of Communications at Greenfingers. As they word it, they are a national charity dedicated to supporting children who spend time in hospices around the UK, along with their families, by creating inspiring gardens. On todays episode Peter Donegan sits with Lou to chat working with some of the UK's top garden designers, why they do what they do and just what it means to be a child or a member of their family with a photosynthetic outdoor...

This is part 1 of a 2 part episode - with Tim Richardson.  Tim Richardson is a London-based writer, historian and critic specialising in landscape, gardens and art. He writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph and other publications including Country Life and Gardens Illustrated. He is the author of a number of books including Arcadian Friends (Bantam, 2007), Avant Gardeners (Thames & Hudson, 2008) and The New English Garden (2013).  A collection of his journalism entitled You Should Have...

Will Williams has completed three show gardens, including at RHS Hampton Court and of his latest, at RHS Tatton Park Flower Show, he walked away with Gold and The RHS Young Designer of the Year award for 2018.  On todays episode Peter Donegan sits with Will to ask all of the why's. From how he ended up in landscape design, his first show garden, real friends and mentors not just of horticulture, but of life - to what the future holds, staying in business and standing tall with the very...