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A Quiet Beauty: Plants That Carry Us Through the Cold
Dec 23, 2025 39 min

A Quiet Beauty: Plants That Carry Us Through the Cold

Oh the weather outside is frightful but there’s still plenty of wonder to be found out there. James Armitage, editor of The Plant Review, joins Gareth Richards to reflect on the quiet beauty o...

Garden Books We’re Obsessed With This Year
Dec 11, 2025 42 min

Garden Books We’re Obsessed With This Year

This week, RHS Head of Libraries Fiona Davison, garden designer Zoe Claymore and RHS Gardening Advisor Nick Turrell gather to share their must-read gardening books of 2025. Along the way, they expl...

Atomic Gardens and Other Remarkable Histories
Dec 04, 2025 32 min

Atomic Gardens and Other Remarkable Histories

December is the perfect time to take stock of the garden and dream of the seasons ahead. With this in mind, this week we’re bringing you some extraordinary stories from horticulturists past and pre...

Tiny Wetlands, Big Impact: The Wildlife Power of Garden Ponds
Nov 13, 2025 34 min

Tiny Wetlands, Big Impact: The Wildlife Power of Garden Ponds

All life begins with water — and in gardens across the UK, ponds are becoming vital sanctuaries for wildlife. Now is an excellent time of year to create one, and RHS expert Helen Bensted-Smith walk...

Plants for Purpose: How Research is Reimagining Our Gardens
Nov 06, 2025 31 min

Plants for Purpose: How Research is Reimagining Our Gardens

This week we’re taking a moment to look ahead. Carol Barrie from the RHS  Science and Collections Department joins us to talk about Plants for Purpose, an ambitious new project she’s leading in col...

Halloween in the Garden: From Bats to Deadly Blooms
Oct 30, 2025 36 min

Halloween in the Garden: From Bats to Deadly Blooms

As the days grow shorter and Halloween marks the end of harvest and the beginning of winter, we explore the mysterious, the nocturnal, and the beautifully eerie corners of nature. Ecologist and bat...

From Mushrooms to Matrix Planting: Exploring Nature’s Design
Oct 16, 2025 33 min

From Mushrooms to Matrix Planting: Exploring Nature’s Design

This week, Dr Jassy Drakulic returns to guide us through the hidden zones of your garden, uncovering the fascinating world of fungi and the mushroom magic that may be thriving right under your nose...

Hidden Worlds: From Fungal Networks to Literary Landscapes
Oct 09, 2025 34 min

Hidden Worlds: From Fungal Networks to Literary Landscapes

This week, RHS Senior Plant Pathologist Dr Jassy Drakulic shares her passion for the mysterious world of fungi, revealing the hidden lives of their fruiting bodies and the ingenious ways they sprea...

Living Libraries: Stories from The Plant Review
Oct 02, 2025 39 min

Living Libraries: Stories from The Plant Review

Gardens are more than places of beauty — they’re living archives, preserving stories of the past. In this episode, we leaf through the September issue of The Plant Review to uncover what history ca...

The Autumn Shift: Hibernaculums, Snowdrops, and Jane Austen
Sep 25, 2025 30 min

The Autumn Shift: Hibernaculums, Snowdrops, and Jane Austen

As astronomical autumn settles in, the rhythm of our gardens begins to change — plants, fungi, and wildlife all adapting to cooler days and longer nights. This week, horticulturist Tim Smith shows ...

From Soil to Plate: Raymond Blanc’s Kitchen Garden
Sep 18, 2025 32 min

From Soil to Plate: Raymond Blanc’s Kitchen Garden

This week we’re heading down to the world famous, double Michelin star Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in deepest Oxfordshire, to speak to chef Raymond Blanc about his ethos towards growing delicious pr...

Pioneering Women Gardeners, Daffodils and Climate Lessons
Sep 11, 2025 35 min

Pioneering Women Gardeners, Daffodils and Climate Lessons

This week we’re exploring the lives of the pioneering women gardeners of the 20th century who paved the way for women in horticulture today… through music. Composer Omri Kochavi will be sharing how...

Autumn Abundance: How to Harvest All Year Round
Sep 04, 2025 28 min

Autumn Abundance: How to Harvest All Year Round

Autumn may be here, but your garden’s productivity doesn’t have to slow down! This week, join us as Liz Mooney from RHS Wisley’s World Food Garden reveals how she keeps her allotment bursting with ...