GYO 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 book Shrouded in Light draws from wild shru...
11 Apr 202437min
Sustainable 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 creating planting combinations that don’t ...
4 Apr 202428min
The 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 talk about his new landscape at RHS Gard...
28 Mars 202438min
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 whatever size your space. Jenny Laville s...
21 Mars 202438min
Garden 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 agriculture has a carbon footprint up to 6 time...
14 Mars 202430min
Blight-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 renovate harmonious and colourful borders. An...
7 Mars 202429min
Apple 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 season. We’re getting seasonal tips on GYO – ...
29 Feb 202428min
Notes 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 changing – especially in urban environments...
22 Feb 202431min
