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 eco-friendly gardening.
Plus we’ll have behind the scenes reports from the country’s most prestigious flower shows. There’s something in these podcasts to interest every gardener, whatever your level of expertise.
For more info see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 487
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Summer gardening advice galore, seasonal stars at Wisley and joyful gardening memories
This week we're at RHS Wisley where we meet garden managers Peter Jones and Emma Allen who share seasonal horticultural highlights and tips on what to do now. The Gardening Advice team deal with a bu…
00:29:25 |
Thu 01 Aug 2019
RHS Flower Show Tatton Park
At the last major RHS flower show of the year we're talking bugs, slugs and lawns and visiting the show's Bridgewater garden, which is inspired by the new RHS site that will open in Salford next year…
00:21:57 |
Thu 18 Jul 2019
RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival
This week we're going back to nature at the world's biggest annual flower show. Designer Jo Thompson explains how she's gone wild with the BBC Springwatch Garden, Dave Green shares his meditative spa…
00:26:15 |
Thu 04 Jul 2019
Discovering hidden horticulturists, meeting the people in purple and fabulous floral art
This week we uncover untold histories of 19th-century gardeners with Fiona Davison, author and Head of Libraries and Collections at the RHS. Then we head out into the Chelsea crowds to meet Sue and S…
00:16:58 |
Thu 20 Jun 2019
Live from RHS Chatsworth Flower Show 2019
In this edition we're at the newest RHS Flower Show on the block in the stunning estate of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. We explore the power of trees, get dazzled by dahlias and inspired by the in…
00:31:42 |
Thu 06 Jun 2019
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019
This week we're at the world's premier floral extravaganza in the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea. We meet garden designers, celebrities and plantspeople to discover the stories behind the g…
00:22:45 |
Thu 23 May 2019
Secrets of houseplant success, acers, cauliflowers, going wild for ponds and A Nation in Bloom
Our gardening advisors gather to help RHS members with their horticultural queries, including propagating peperomias and repotting aloe veras, growing cauliflowers successfully and when to plant an a…
00:24:40 |
Thu 09 May 2019
RHS Gardening Podcast on Tour: Cardiff flower show
This week we head across the Severn Bridge to the RHS Flower Show Cardiff. Guest presenter James Alexander-Sinclair chairs a panel of gardening experts – Rob Evans from Pheasant Acre Plants, Jane Li…
00:31:33 |
Thu 25 Apr 2019
Live from RHS Flower Show Cardiff 2019 (mini)
In this mini-edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast, James Alexander-Sinclair chairs a panel of experts who answer show-goers' plant puzzles on the first day of the show. A full version of the Question…
00:31:33 |
Sat 13 Apr 2019
Replacing a failing apple tree, blackspot-resistant roses and which plants are Bambi-proof? Plus: plant rant (Ep 152)
Our trusty advisors gather to help RHS members with their gardening problems including what to do about an apple tree that produces nasty apples, which are the most blackspot resistant roses and how …
00:24:21 |
Thu 04 Apr 2019
Green power: how gardening changes lives behind bars, top 10 plant diseases and a new order at Wisley (Ep 151)
This week we meet the staff and inmates at HMP Hull and discover how a prison garden has helped transform lives behind bars. Last year the prison's horticultural achievements won them the coveted Win…
00:18:37 |
Fri 22 Mar 2019
Top 10 pests revealed, life after slug pellets, children's gardening questions answered, dealing with box problems and more (Ep 150)
As the annual Hit Parade of garden nasties is revealed, Entomologist Andy Salisbury shares the results and offers advice on how to deal with them. Meanwhile the Gardening Advice team gathers to debat…
00:25:49 |
Fri 08 Mar 2019
Discovering Darwin's potato, pressing matters at the Herbarium, Cardiff flower show, beating blight (Ep 149)
This week we lift the lid on the RHS Herbarium, a unique collection of dried plant material from around the world that's used by scientists, researchers and artists. We learn how and why samples are …
00:25:19 |
Thu 21 Feb 2019
Growing new plants and new gardeners, gardens to visit for free, solving courgette queries and replacing overgrown shrubs (Ep 148)
We visit RHS Garden Wisley to discover the new plant propagation facilities and what they mean for the gardeners there. And it's not just plants that the RHS is cultivating: as we look to the next ge…
00:26:00 |
Thu 07 Feb 2019
Following royal gardening footsteps in Islington, discovering horticultural histories and the spawning glories of ponds in late winter (Ep 147)
This week we follow in the footsteps of the Duchess of Cambridge who recently visited King Henry’s Walk Garden in Islington, an RHS It’s Your Neighbourhood group, to meet the community gardeners. Mea…
00:25:56 |
Thu 24 Jan 2019
A bumper crop of gardening questions answered, how did the 2018 drought affect gardens and a sneak peek at upcoming flower shows (Ep 146)
What can you plant for winter colour - that's not a dogwood? Should you remove the yellow leaves on sprouts? Tune in and find out the answers to these and lots more seasonal gardening questions. We t…
00:30:59 |
Thu 10 Jan 2019
Highlights of 2018 - a year in gardening
As 2018 draws to a close, here's a look back at some of our favourite moments of the year. From the energy and dynamism of the Chelsea Flower Show, interviews with luminaries of the gardening world s…
00:32:43 |
Thu 27 Dec 2018
Seasonal gardening questions solved and Christmas presents for gardeners (Ep 145)
The Gardening Advice team gathers together for a bumper question-and-answer session, sorting out enquiries ranging from whether you can grow your own vine leaves, which figs grow best in the UK, usin…
00:33:18 |
Thu 20 Dec 2018
How to help winter wildlife, unusual street trees and are glittered plants a crime against nature? (Ep 144)
Wildlife expert and writer Kate Bradbury shares her top tips on what to do now to help garden wildlife through the winter. Paul Wood discusses the past, present and future of street trees, and shares…
00:23:27 |
Thu 06 Dec 2018
Books Special 2018: Experts pick their favourites old and new, and books for Christmas presents
In this special edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast, we're joined by experts and authors who discuss their favourite gardening books both classic and modern, and give recommendations of books for pr…
00:33:57 |
Thu 29 Nov 2018
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