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...
26 Mars 29min
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 Mars 33min
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 Mars 34min
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 Mars 37min
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 Feb 32min
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 Feb 31min
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 Feb 34min
Planning the perfect veg plot: heirlooms, tomatoes and what lies beneath
Now is a great time to start planning what to grow, and this week, we’re diving headfirst into the seed catalogues for inspiration! We’re exploring some of the tastiest, and most eye catching, additio...
5 Feb 35min
