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BBC Gardeners? World Magazine Podcast

BBC Gardeners? World Magazine Podcast

Discover gardening inspiration and advice from your favourite gardening experts with the BBC Gardeners? World Magazine team. Join Monty Don, Alan Titchmarsh, Adam Frost, Frances Tophill, Arit Anderson and others to garden for wildlife and wellness, sow and grow flourishing flowers, immerse in the benefits of nature, get the most from your vegetable plot, successfully use colour in the garden, enjoy the beauty of house plants and much, much more. With Sowalongs and Tea Break Tutorials too, we have your gardening needs covered. This month in the BBC Gardeners? World Magazine podcast - tour a King?s garden with Alan Titchmarsh, enjoy Bridgerton?s floral feasts, visit Griff Rhys-Jones? formal garden, learn how Adam Frost designs a show garden, create sensational summer borders, peak behind the scenes at the Chelsea Flower Show and discover an award-winning coastal garden. Additionally, you can find advice, chat and information for allotment growing, grow your own flowers, outdoor living, garden design, organic and sustainable ways to tackle pests and solve problems, growing from seed, caring for plants, looking after roses, pruning tips, thrifty/money saving ideas, plant-based eating, preserving and pickling, spending time in nature, winter evergreens, greenhouse knowhow, favourite garden plants, container planting, raised beds, marking a garden look good year round, small garden and tiny spaces, patio gardening, window boxes, supporting urban birds and wildlife, lawn care, hedgerow help, green roofs, biodiversity, benefits of trees, compost and soil health, rewilding, gardening for mental health and wellbeing, gardening for health and fitness, hospital gardens, gardens for healing, green spaces for reflection, plants and trees to aid poor air pollution, taking cuttings, propagating, pruning, plants for free, succeeding with roses, growing soft fruit, tackling weeds organically, growing herbs, planting shrubs, taking hardwood cuttings, caring for houseplants, plants for all seasons, trees for spring blossom, fruit trees, climbing roses, flowering shrubs, coastal gardens, making a show garden, behind the scenes at Chelsea, gardening for time-poor gardeners, allotment life, decoding nature?s secrets, companion planting, the healing power of gardens, gardening with trees, gardening with cancer, downsizing a garden, making a new garden, battling slugs and snails, no mow May, spring bulbs, growing sweet peas, sunflowers, cosmos, nasturtiums, tomatoes, beetroot, dahlias, foxgloves, carrots, parsley, onions, shallots, garlic, cucumbers, chillies, potatoes, beans, French beans and runner beans, cabbage, kale, broccoli, pumpkins, squash, courgettes, spinach, chard, leafy veg, parsnips, strawflowers, Verbascum, basil, echium, rocket, zinnia, camellia, tasty soft fruit, successful wisteria, superfoods, tropical gardens, community gardens, Great Dixter, Knepp. With James Alexander Sinclair, Nick Bailey, Errol Reuben Fernandes, Terry Walton, Rachel de Thame, David Hurrion, Sheila Das, Caroline Quentin, Deliciously Ella, Tristan Gooley, Plant Kween, Nancy Birtwhistle, Matt Biggs, Tom Allen, Ashely Edwards, Joe Lycett, Spicy Moustache, Patrick Gale, Georgina Yates, Griff Rhys Jones, Kate Bradbury, Rekha Mistry, Rich Heathcote, Marchelle Farrell, Tayshan Hayden-Smith, Advolly Richmond, Fergus Garrett, Alistair Griffiths, David Hedges-Gower, John Little, Cel Robertson, Ken Thompson, Charlie Harper, Suzi Turner, Moly Fierheller, Rukmini Iyer, Jamie Johnson, Ingrid Chiu, Ray Mears, Sarah Gerrard-Jones, Jason Williams, Sue Kent, Tom Brown, Sarah Price, Liz Schofield, Kevin Smith, Cat Mansley, Adam Duxbury, Emma Crawforth.

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Episodes

Garden design ideas, with Pollyanna Wilkinson

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
2025-04-15
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Sowalong - Squash with Oliver Parsons

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
2025-04-12
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Grow More Veg in a Small Space, with Adam Frost

?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
2025-04-10
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Avoid Gardening Injuries, with Sue Kent

?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
2025-04-08
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Sowalong - Onions with Matt Biggs

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
2025-04-05
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Your Best Spring Garden, with Frances Tophill

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
2025-04-03
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Monty Don Reveals his Garden Plans for the Year

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
2025-04-01
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Spring Trailer

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. 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
2025-03-31
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Sowalong - Sweet Peas with Kevin Smith

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
2025-03-29
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Ask Alan - House Plants

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
2025-03-27
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Ask Alan - Hydrangeas

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
2025-03-25
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Sowalong - Brussels Sprouts with Sarah Edwards

?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
2025-03-22
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Ask Alan - Pests and Diseases

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
2025-03-20
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Ask Alan - Choosing the Right Plants for your Soil

Alan Titchmarsh discusses why we need to find the right plants for our garden in this Ask Alan episode. With questions answered on how to grow fragrant flowering shrubs in clay soil, establishing plants on thin sandy soil, tackling gardens with different soil types, and ways to improve your soil. 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
2025-03-18
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Sowalong - Carrot with Kevin Smith

A staple in the veg plot and, with many varieties available, carrots could be in your plot this year too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-03-15
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Ask Alan - Roses

?Roses are a stalwart of the garden, but can come with their challenges. In this episode of Ask Alan, Alan Titchmarsh covers how to care for roses from black spot to mildew and rust, how to feed and keep roses healthy, when and how to plant and prune roses, along with recommendations for his favourite varieties. 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
2025-03-13
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Ask Alan - Lawn Care

With advice for tackling weeds on the lawn, creating a wildlife lawn, how to feed a lawn and when to cut a lawn and, of course, adding stripes to the lawn, Alan Titchmarsh loves a lawn and there's plenty of advice on caring for your lawn in this episode of Ask Alan. Don?t forget to listen for the Wild Card question to see if it's yours! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-03-11
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Sowalong - Potatoes with Adam Frost

One of the easiest things to grow in the garden says Adam Frost and you'll be digging up potato 'jewels' later in the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-03-08
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Ask Alan - Summer Blooms

Alan Titchmarsh offers advice for gorgeous summer colour in this episode of Ask Alan, including plants that have long flowering periods, adding interest and height to the border, how to propagate summer plants for even more summer blooms, what to plant in a new bed for summer colour, peony and dahlia advice 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
2025-03-06
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Ask Alan - Garden Design

Garden design pointers and how to garden on a budget are discussed in this episode of Ask Alan. Alan Titchmarsh also gives help for drought-resistance and maintenance-free gardens, how to create privacy from neighbours and the use of hedges, trees and topiary in a garden design. 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
2025-03-04
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Sowalong - Cornflower with Matt Biggs

You'd hardly believe that cornflowers that are so familiar in cottage gardens were actually introduced to Britain thousands of years ago. And we're so familiar with them that we just think of them as one of our own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-03-01
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Ask Alan - Weeds

Weeds and how to cope with them in the garden or plot are discussed in this episode of Ask Alan. Hear Alan Titchmarsh offer advice for tackling bindweed, creeping cinquefoil, Japanese knotweed, ground elder and more and poses the question, is the definition of a weed really any plant growing where it's not wanted or growing out of place? 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
2025-02-27
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Ask Alan - Fruit Trees

With fruit tree care and advice, Alan Titchmarsh covers how to care for splitting bark, apple scab, rust spots on leaves, unripe fruit, looking after grape vines and encouraging a lemon tree to fruit. Is your fruit tree question answered in this episode of Ask Alan? 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
2025-02-25
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Sowalong - Cucumbers with Claire Vennis

There's nothing quite like biting into a fresh, crunchy cucumber straight from the plant and if you haven't tried to grow cucumbers from seed yet, this could be the year to do so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-02-22
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Ask Alan - Plants for Tricky Places

Almost every garden has a tricky spot and in this episode of Alan Titchmarsh gives advice for growing in small, residential gardens and in pots, discusses plants for different situations in the garden, what to plant in windy, coastal gardens and where to find inspiration for growing a new garden. 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
2025-02-20
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Ask Alan - Help with Unhappy Plants

In this informative episode of Ask Alan, Alan Titchmarsh gives advice for how to care for lavender and magnolia plants, how to help red robin hedging thrive, ensuring peonies and clematis bloom 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
2025-02-18
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Sowalong - Coriander with Catherine Mansley

One of the oldest cultivated spices that we know of, coriander is bursting with health benefits and every part of coriander is edible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-02-15
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Ask Alan - Pruning

With advice for pruning magnolia and wisteria, how to take cuttings and root pruning, Alan Titchmarsh also discusses the right tools to use for different pruning jobs in this episode of Ask Alan. 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
2025-02-13
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Ask Alan - Plants for Shade

Discover plants that love shade and will bring life to shady corners, with Alan Titchmarsh?s expert answers to your questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-02-11
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Sowalong - Broad Beans with Claire Vennis

Broad beans can be grown in the ground, in raised beds, or in pots, and are a great source of vitamins A, C, and E, as well as protein and fibre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-02-08
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Ask Alan - Seed Sowing

It's a great time of year to start sowing seeds but how many seeds should you sow, how can you make sure your seeds will germinate, when and how to plant them out and can you store seeds for future growing? Alan Titchmarsh will answer these questions and more in this episode of Ask Alan. 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
2025-02-06
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Ask Alan - Growing Veg

Growing vegetables can be hugely rewarding, but what happens when your lovingly tendered veg doesn't thrive? In this episode of Ask Alan, Alan Titchmarsh will answer questions on growing successful root vegetables, stopping vegetables from bolting, finding the ideal tomato and the best growing medium in raised beds. 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
2025-02-04
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Ask Alan Trailer

Hear Alan Titchmarsh solve your gardening problems in a new podcast series Ask Alan, where he?ll answer questions on plants for tricky places, offer solutions for unhappy plants, give garden design ideas, examine how to cope with weeds, pests and diseases, give tips on pruning, roses and more. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday through February and March. If you?ve got a gardening question you?d like to Ask Alan, then please leave it in the comments below or go to gardenersworld.com/podcast/questions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-02-03
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Sowalong - Nigella with Sonya Patel Ellis

Sow Nigella seeds for a mass of beautiful flowers through the summer months, followed by gorgeous balloon like seed capsules in autumn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-02-01
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The Therapeutic Properties of Nature with Beth Collier

What role does nature play in our mental and emotional wellbeing? Beth Collier, a Nature Allied Psychotherapist and ethnographer, teaches woodland living skills and natural history and helps people connect with the natural world to support their mental health. Beth shares how nature can nurture during therapy, the barriers people of colour face in accessing outdoor spaces and how we can create more inclusive natural environments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-30
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The Power of Community Gardening with Stephen Mason

Community gardens play a vital role in making green space accessible to everyone, particularly those in inner city areas where gardens are at a minimum. Such spaces are also a great source of wellbeing through gardening and volunteering opportunities, gatherings and events, places to grow food and help combat climate change, and most importantly connect with nature. In this episode, Stephen Mason, gardener at The Hoxton Trust Community Garden in East London, and a pioneer in growing green spaces for everyone, shares his thoughts about the power of community gardens, the many benefits they provide, and how to set one up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-28
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Sowalong - Radish with Sarah Edwards

Crunchy, bright and full of peppery flavour, the radish is one of the quickest and easiest crops to grow. Enjoy growing along with the seeds in this month?s magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-25
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Beat Stress and Boost Brain Power using Plants

Significantly reduce your stress levels, improve your ability to concentrate, and alleviate depression, using plants. Kathy Willis, professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford, explains the dramatic impact plants have on our mental and physical health, and shares the wealth of scientific evidence from around the world that proves the power of nature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-23
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Grow a healthier diet with Daphne Lambert

How does the food we eat shape our health, wellbeing and connection to the planet? Daphne Lambert is a medicinal chef, nutritionist and founding member of the Greencuisine Trust and has spent decades exploring the profound links between food, health and sustainability. From running an award-winning organic restaurant to teaching about soil, gut health and the food matrix, she shares how gardeners can nourish themselves through their harvests the emotional and social power of food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-21
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Sowalong - Snapdragons with Matt Biggs

They're fun plants and they get their name from the fact that if you gently squeeze the mouth of the flower it opens wide, just like a Chinese dragon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-20
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Managing Type 2 Diabetes & Weight Through Gardening

When he received his type 2 diabetes diagnosis, gardener and writer Andrew Oldham took his gardening expertise to a new level, growing on his hillside plot in the Pennines to bring back his health. Discover how Andrew?s down to earth gardening and cooking has helped him lose weight and reverse his type 2 diabetes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-16
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How Woodlands Boost your Health with Sally Bavin

A winter woodland walk ? there?s nothing like it to boost your mood. But did you know the wellbeing benefits of a woodland walk actually go much deeper, with real physical health benefits? So in this episode we?re talking to Sally Bavin of the Woodland Trust to unveil the surprising science behind our relationship with these magical places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-14
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Sowalong - Cosmos with Adam Duxbury

Easy to grow and reliable, cosmos will reward you with weeks of beautiful flowers that fit into lots of different planting styles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-11
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Herbal Remedies for Winter Illnesses/Ailments with Jo Dunbar

The winter months can be challenging for our health and, while we wait for spring days to nourish us once again, what can we do to support and boost our immune system? Medical herbalist Jo Dunbar?s knowledge on how to use herbs, plants, and spices from the kitchen and garden could help keep us healthy over the cold winter months until Spring?s bounty emerges once again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-09
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The Weird Science Behind House Plants and Wellbeing

We all feel instinctively that house plants are good for us. But is it all in the mind, or is there something real and tangible going on? Can house plants really scrub the air around us, and if so how on earth do they do it? And what difference can one little plant on a shelf really make in our lives? In this episode we delve deep into the amazing world of house plants and their health benefits, with the expert help of Dr Tijana Blanusa, Principal Horticultural Scientist at the RHS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-07
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Sowalong - Tomato with Adam Frost

Tomatoes are fun to grow, with many different varieties to choose from, and they taste so much better home-grown than from the shops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-04
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Monty Don on Gardening to Support Positive Mental Health

It's the heart of winter, light levels are low and we've got weeks of cold still to come. There's no getting away from the fact that winter can feel like a slog and there's every chance you could be feeling overwhelmed by it all. But it's not all bad news and, as we begin a fresh new year, we explore how gardening can help us feel better, the role gardening can play in our mental health and the positive impact of getting outdoors as often as possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-02
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Wellness and Sowalong Trailer

Give your mental and physical health a boost this January, with the new Wellness podcast series from BBC Gardeners? World Magazine. You?ll discover ways to improve your mental wellbeing through gardening, herbal remedies for winter illnesses, advice on using your garden to keep your body strong, the difference that growing your own can make to the nutritional value of your food, the impact of house plants on our health and many more ways that gardens and nature can help our mind, body, and soul. And join our Sowalong series too. These friendly, bite-size podcasts offer advice on how to grow vegetables, flowers, and herbs from seed for healthy crops and impressive blooms this year. Start your gardening year with inspiration and motivation from some of the UK?s most loved and well-respected experts. With new Wellness episodes every Tuesday and Thursday in January, and Sowalongs every Saturday until the end of June, subscribe now, wherever you get your podcasts, and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-01-01
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Carol Klein talks Gardening's Great Women

Eminent gardener and plantswoman Carol Klein celebrates the wonderful women who have played a central role in horticulture for centuries, from early plant hunters such as Marianne North to designers like Gertrude Jekyll, gardeners such as Margery Fish and Beth Chatto, to this year?s Chelsea best in show designer Ula Maria. And yet, the industry remains rather male dominated. She shares her opinions on the grass ceiling, how the industry needs to change, and the women who have inspired her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2024-12-31
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Travel Tales - Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, Japan

When you?re inside the serene surroundings of Shinjuku Gyoen, it?s hard to believe you are in one of the most populated cities in the world. Shinjuku Gyoen features three distinct garden styles: Japanese traditional, English landscape, and French formal, each with its own unique vibe. During cherry blossom season from late March to April, the park?s 1,500 cherry trees make it one of Tokyo?s most popular hanami spots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2024-12-28
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