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Gardening with the RHS
'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…
Episodes
Gardening with the RHSCreating healthy gardens for people and planet
In this episode we delve into the profound connection between nature and well-being. Landscape Architect Adam White discusses creating dementia-friendly…
Gardening with the RHSMoney saving tips, moss magic, and awesome Asteraceae at Hampton 2024!
Welcome to the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2024! We’re exploring the site and transporting you right to the heart of this buzzing showground. Anya…
Gardening with the RHSFrom Botanic Gardens to Insect Studies; the Secrets to Thriving Ecosystems
Chris Kidd, Curator of Ventnor Botanic Gardens, discusses his pioneering low-intervention approach to horticulture with a two decade long experiment which has…
Gardening with the RHSCritter camaraderie: Slugs, Snails, and Guerilla Gardening Tales
After a deluge of questions relating to garden critters, RHS Principal Entomologist Hayley Jones makes the case for why you shouldn’t be too quick to eradicate…
Gardening with the RHSEarly Summer at Wisley
This week we’ll be dropping in with the advisory team at RHS Garden Wisley to answer some of your most asked questions this season. Plantsman Ed Cooper will be…
Gardening with the RHSThe Enchanting World of Herbs
This week we’re diving into the enchanting world of herbs. Join us as author and horticulturist Connor Smith uncovers the rich history of these remarkable…
Gardening with the RHSSquashes, Hebes, and the new RHS patron is announced!
From butternuts to tromboncinos – on this week's show, Wisley’s Liz Mooney tells us about some of her favourite squashes with top tips on how to grow them. Roz…
Gardening with the RHSIt's RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024!
Welcome to RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024! We’re diving headfirst into all of the trends and highlights this hotly anticipated show has to offer; from the…
Gardening with the RHSThe Season of Colour
This week we’re celebrating the abundance of colour on offer at this time of year. RHS trials project manager Roz Marshall shares the results of the…
Gardening with the RHSTopiary, lilacs and Chelsea judging
In the week leading to World Topiary Day, RHS Horticultural Advisor Jenny Bowden gives us an update on growing alternatives to box (Buxus sempervirens), with…
Gardening with the RHSCucumbers, peonies and houseplant propagation
Peter Adams from RHS Garden Rosemoor gives a masterclass in growing indoor and outdoor cucumbers with suggested varieties for growing in different situations…
Gardening with the RHSHighlights from the RHS Urban Show 2024
Gareth Richards, Jenny Laville and Guy Barter bring a jam packed show of highlights from the inaugural RHS Urban Show in Manchester - a festival of ideas…
Gardening with the RHSSingle-colour planting, GYO tips (for radishes, peas, cardoons), and a floating greenhouse
In the stunning Colour Gardens at The Newt In Somerset, Joe Dransfield explains how a monochrome approach to flowers can deliver dazzling impact. Liz Mooney…
Gardening with the RHSGYO tips from Rosemoor, plant hybrids, and shrubscapes
Desert roadcuts, abandoned pasture, heathland and marshy thickets inspire naturalistic planting ideas from Kevin Philip Williams and Michel Guidi, whose new…
Gardening with the RHSSustainable plant combos, GYO tips (for tomatoes, beetroot, squash), flowering shrubs
Do you ever fall in love with a plant, buy it, but then not know what to pair it with? Principal Horticultural Advisor James Lawrence introduces his guide to…
Gardening with the RHSThe 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…
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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…
Gardening with the RHSGarden 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…
Gardening with the RHSBlight-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…
Gardening with the RHSApple 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…
Gardening with the RHSNotes 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…
Gardening with the RHSSomething New!
This week’s show is all about growing something new. We’re spreading the word about exciting plant species, cultivars, and hybrids from those that love them…
Gardening with the RHSAlpine Delights, Wisteria Pruning, and the Great RHS Award Snub
For this week’s show, we take a behind the scenes look at the ways spring is fighting its way into the picture at RHS Garden Wisley. We go behind the scenes at…
Gardening with the RHSGrowing on a Budget
In this week’s show, we’re zeroing in on how to stretch the money we spend on our gardens as far as possible. We hear from gardening influencer Anya Lautenbach…
Gardening with the RHSGuerrilla Gardening, Seasonal Advice, and Maintaining a World-Famous Laburnum Arch
This week’s show is all about cultivating change – whether in your own garden, in your local neighbourhood, or in a magical National Trust property. We’re…
Gardening with the RHSSecond Chances
As gardeners, we all have plants we love to hate – think aucubas or heathers. And in winter, especially, it seems that these common but unpopular plants play a…
Gardening with the RHSWinter-Flowering Camellias, Cold Weather Inspiration, and Gardening Questions Answered
We’re past the solstice, so it’s time to both revel in the present and prepare for what's to come as the days get longer and warmer. So, in this week’s show…
Gardening with the RHSA Sustainability Health Check for the Garden
To start off the new year right, we decided to begin with a practical and sustainable guide on what you can get up to outdoors this year – it’s what we’re…
Gardening with the RHS2023 Highlights and Trends
For our final episode of 2023, we’re taking a look back at some of our favourite moments on the podcast and across the RHS from the year, exploring emerging…
Gardening with the RHSA Gardener’s Recipe for Christmas
As we approach the most festive time of year, we’ve decided to share a recipe for a plant-filled Christmas. In this episode, we’ll be returning to Bristol with…
Gardening with the RHSFor the Love of Birds
This week, we’re wrapping up warm and heading out into our gardens to take a moment to really appreciate our garden birds. Wildlife sound recordist Gary Moore…
Gardening with the RHSWhat's That Weed?
Weeds have many faces. They feed birds, butterflies, bees, and the like. They spread like wildfire, but are resilient. They compete with crops, yet can add…
Gardening with the RHSThe Winter Garden
With the first cold snap hitting the UK this past week, it’s really starting to feel like winter. It’s a time of structural beauty, of evergreen supremacy, of…
Gardening with the RHSThe Best Gardening Books of 2023!
It’s that time of year again… Our annual book special is here! Today, Helen Griffin, RHS Book Publishing Manager, chats with Fiona Davidson, Guy Barter, and…
Gardening with the RHSCrazy About Houseplants: Top picks & tips and the stories behind our obsession
As the surrounding world starts looking a little bleaker, we’ve decided to explore how to best turn our homes into verdant oases. RHS Digital Editor Jenny…
Gardening with the RHSTravelling Back in Time
This week, we’re journeying back through time, taking stock of a few significant moments in botanical history. We’re unravelling their mysteries, considering…
Gardening with the RHSWinter Preparation & The Case for No-Dig
This week, we journey through RHS Garden Wisley, capturing some of its autumnal beauty while also looking ahead as winter edges ever closer. Garden Manager…
Gardening with the RHSHidden Roots: Extraordinary Tales from Black Women Gardeners
This month – October – is UK Black History Month – and the theme for 2023 is “Saluting our Sisters,” highlighting the influence Black women have had in shaping…
Gardening with the RHSEntangled Wonder: An Autumnal Survey on Trees
This week, with all the glorious leaf colour on display, we’re exploring the entangled wonder of the arboreal world, getting a behind the scenes look at what…
Gardening with the RHSMaximising Minimal Space
It’s no secret our living spaces are getting smaller. As more and more of us move to urban areas, we’re often having to put up with tight quarters – living in…
Gardening with the RHSA Fun Guide to Fungi
This Saturday – 7 October – is UK Fungus Day. And so for this week’s show, we’re exploring the fascinating faces of fungi. We’re taking a tour of the Fungus…
Gardening with the RHSHarvest Reflections and The Future of Grow-Your-Own
We’ve passed the autumn equinox and officially entered harvest season. It’s time to pick apples, pears, and autumn-fruiting raspberries, harvest squashes…
Gardening with the RHSBoosting Your Soil Health
Soil is the backbone of our gardens. A healthy soil means happier plants, higher crop yields, and greater biodiversity. So, this week, as we begin laying out…
Gardening with the RHSThe Radical Lives of Britain's Women Gardeners
With the release of Fiona Davison’s new book – An Almost Impossible Thing: The Radical Lives of Britain’s Pioneering Women Gardeners – we decided to dedicate…
Gardening with the RHSA Host of Golden Daffodils (And Other Bulbs!)
Now that it’s September, we’ve officially entered bulb-planting season. It’s time to get things like daffodils, alliums, crocuses and hyacinths into the…
Gardening with the RHSIn Life and Death
Perhaps nowhere do we face the realities of life and death more frequently and intimately than we do within the garden. We witness a cycle of growth, dieback…
Gardening with the RHSLate Summer Gardening
With autumn drawing closer and closer, we’re exploring late summer gardens – with all their lushness, colour, and vibrancy — and considering what we can get up…
Gardening with the RHSRewilding Small Spaces
Today’s show focuses on specific ways we can rewild gardens. We’re exploring how we can intervene in space spaces to create dynamic habitats – without using…
Gardening with the RHSBack on the Allotment
It’s National Allotment Week – a time to celebrate our country’s vast network of allotment plots and re-invest in our own dedication to growing fruit and veg…
Gardening with the RHSOrchid Special
With the grand opening of Wisley’s Orchid House this past month and the publication of The Orchid Review – our annual orchid yearbook – within reach, we…
Gardening with the RHSGrowing Up in the Garden
Now that it’s late July and the whole family’s around, we thought it the perfect time to explore gardening with kids and to reflect on our own memories of…
Gardening with the RHSTrending at Tatton
RHS Flower Show Tatton Park is finally here! And we’re taking you on a tour of some of the highlights. We’re speaking with young designers like Camellia Hayes…
Gardening with the RHSRefashioning the Unfashionable
This week, we’ll be exploring a few of our cultivated genera and species that, for a variety of reasons, have gone out of style. We’ll hear about Plant…
Gardening with the RHSRHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2023
It’s the 30th anniversary of the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival and it’s looking better than ever. There’s a magnificent Floral Marquee filled with…
Gardening with the RHSFabulous Florals: Lilies, Verbena bonariensis, and Flowering Dogwoods
It’s peak summer – a time when many of our flowers are flourishing, adorning our gardens with bright colours and sweet, rich fragrances. We’ve gone from…
Gardening with the RHSUngardening
Ungardening isn’t the antithesis of gardening – instead, it’s about taking a new perspective on what tending to the earth can look like. And that’s a fitting…
Gardening with the RHSSummer Scents
As we get closer and closer to the official start of summer, the fragrances of our favourite flora are reaching a fever pitch. So for today’s show, we decided…
Gardening with the RHSJune Garden Reset: GYO Chillies, Protect Your Soil, and Wonderful Wasps
It’s June and our gardens are now in full swing. It’s a wonderful time of year – that perfect sweet spot where we can start to take in the fruits of our spring…
Gardening with the RHSThe Art of Our Gardens
In this special episode, we’re branching off from the regular content of the show to zero in on what we can make when using flora as both our inspiration and…
Gardening with the RHSIt's Chelsea, Baby!
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023 is finally upon us! And this week, we’ve brought you an episode recorded amongst the hustle and bustle of designer gardens…