How green is your garden?

How green is your garden?

You might think of gardening as an intrinsically green activity, but our verdant hedges and lush lawns can cause some very dirty habits. In an eye-opening interview, low-carbon gardening expert Sally Nex gives the lowdown on how ditching petrol power tools is important for the health of both gardeners and our planet. Plus we head to COP26 host city Glasgow to discover a pioneering urban seed library that helps create resilience in local food systems. And in Cornwall we meet artist Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg who's created an inter-species installation using an algorithm to create gardens designed from the perspective of pollinating insects, rather than humans. For links to more information on today's topics please check out our show notes or visit rhs.org.uk/podcast

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Gardening for the senses

Gardening for the senses

Now's the perfect time to pep up your summer cocktails and add perk to your pasta with an array of unusual plant-based ingredients. Andrew Perry of Urban Herbs is a man on a mission to spice up herb g...

4 Aug 202224min

Totally Tatton

Totally Tatton

A retrospective look at last week's RHS Flower Show Tatton Park. Meet some of the Young Designer of the Year finalists, discover how science has informed a beautiful travelling garden dedicated to wel...

28 Jul 202233min

Become a Bee Walker, forest bathing and a native garden plant

Become a Bee Walker, forest bathing and a native garden plant

To celebrate Bees Needs Week we're taking a walk with RHS wildlife experts Helen Bostock and Nick Tew, to help count Britain's bumblebees. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust are asking for volunteers to...

21 Jul 202226min

Expert guides to growing lavender, prizewinning veg and seasonal sowings

Expert guides to growing lavender, prizewinning veg and seasonal sowings

This week we meet renowned lavender expert Simon Charlesworth of Downderry Nurseries, who grows hundreds of varieties of this fragrant favourite. Discover which is the most scented type of all and hea...

14 Jul 202225min

RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2022

RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2022

A gardening wonderland returns to southwest London with the world's biggest annual flower show. Join us on a tour of the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival – bursting with glorious gardens, peti...

7 Jul 202224min

What should I do about ants in my garden?

What should I do about ants in my garden?

It's a creature that has been crawling around the earth's surface since the time of the dinosaurs. There are estimated to be more than a million of them for every human on earth. But what do they actu...

30 Jun 202227min

Meeting a wasp whisperer and growing your own spices

Meeting a wasp whisperer and growing your own spices

What have wasps ever done for us? The answer might surprise you, as we meet entomologist Dr Seirian Sumner, author of Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps. Food and garden writer Rekha Mistry offe...

23 Jun 202230min

British summertime in the garden

British summertime in the garden

As summer hits its stride we head into the orchards at RHS Garden Wisley to meet Sheila Das and Liz Mooney. They explain how the garden is greening up its act, bringing wildlife and wildflowers into t...

16 Jun 202235min

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