Episode 112: Exotic vegetables take root in Essex, seasonal gardening tasks, and are native plants better for wildlife?

Episode 112: Exotic vegetables take root in Essex, seasonal gardening tasks, and are native plants better for wildlife?

Chickpeas, yard-long beans and shark's fin melons... all on a windy hilltop near Chelmsford... we visit RHS Garden Hyde Hall in Essex to hear some inspirational Grow Your Own ideas from their new Global Growth Vegetable Garden. We also hear about some of the latest research the RHS has conducted in the Plant For Bugs project and as usual we have all the latest on events across our RHS Gardens.

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Climate resilient gardens, lettuces, and gladioli

Climate resilient gardens, lettuces, and gladioli

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Resilient gardens, blossoming trees & growing cucumbers

Resilient gardens, blossoming trees & growing cucumbers

This week we’re embracing the arrival of spring in the garden. RHS horticultural advisor Jenny Bowden applies a right plant, right place approach in her sandy, drought-prone garden in southeast Englan...

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An ode to home grown

An ode to home grown

This week, we’re focusing on the edible garden, and the simple yet radical act of growing your own food in an age of convenience. Food writer Nancy Matsumoto explores how our globalised food system is...

19 Maalis 33min

Spring into wellbeing: primroses, pollinators, and peas

Spring into wellbeing: primroses, pollinators, and peas

With the first glimmers of spring starting to show through, this week we’re diving into the theme of wellbeing – both for us and our garden wildlife. RHS Science & Horticulture Editor Olivia Drake joi...

12 Maalis 34min

Learning From The Wild

Learning From The Wild

This week, we’re leafing through the pages of The Plant Review to explore a simple question: what can we learn from the wild? American plantsman Daniel J. Hinkley reflects on a lifetime of exploratio...

5 Maalis 37min

Rethinking rose pruning, self-sufficiency, and ornamental grasses

Rethinking rose pruning, self-sufficiency, and ornamental grasses

This week we join gardener and biologist Benny Hawksbee in his rose beds to find out how one small adjustment to the traditional rose pruning method can create vital habitat for a key aphid predator. ...

26 Helmi 32min

Wet winter gardening, woodland walks and pruning wisteria

Wet winter gardening, woodland walks and pruning wisteria

This week, we’re heading to RHS Garden Wisley to discover how its horticulturists are turning one of the wettest starts to the year on record into a garden that’s primed for spring. Team leader Helen ...

19 Helmi 31min

The wildlife wonders of hazel, the science of winter wellbeing and hot crops from Wisley

The wildlife wonders of hazel, the science of winter wellbeing and hot crops from Wisley

This week, as its delicate catkins unfurl on bare branches, Digital Science Editor Olivia Drake introduces this month’s RHS Wildlife Wonder plant — the hazel – which not only supplies queen bumblebees...

12 Helmi 34min

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