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
A Pixiu production.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 487
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
A Fun Guide to Fungi
This Saturday – 7 October – is UK Fungus Day. And so for this week’s show, we’re exploring the fascinating faces of fungi. We’re taking a tour of the Fungus Garden at RHS Wisley, journeying back in t…
00:32:32 |
Thu 05 Oct 2023
Harvest Reflections and The Future of Grow-Your-Own
We’ve passed the autumn equinox and officially entered harvest season. It’s time to pick apples, pears, and autumn-fruiting raspberries, harvest squashes, beetroot, aubergines, leeks, and much, much …
00:29:42 |
Thu 28 Sep 2023
Boosting Your Soil Health
Soil is the backbone of our gardens. A healthy soil means happier plants, higher crop yields, and greater biodiversity. So, this week, as we begin laying out our deliciously rich compost with fervour…
00:27:50 |
Thu 21 Sep 2023
The Radical Lives of Britain's Women Gardeners
With the release of Fiona Davison’s new book – An Almost Impossible Thing: The Radical Lives of Britain’s Pioneering Women Gardeners – we decided to dedicate this week’s show week’s show to women in …
00:36:46 |
Thu 14 Sep 2023
A Host of Golden Daffodils (And Other Bulbs!)
Now that it’s September, we’ve officially entered bulb-planting season. It’s time to get things like daffodils, alliums, crocuses and hyacinths into the ground. So, with that in mind, we’ve put toget…
00:32:31 |
Thu 07 Sep 2023
In Life and Death
Perhaps nowhere do we face the realities of life and death more frequently and intimately than we do within the garden. We witness a cycle of growth, dieback, and rebirth on a seasonal, weekly, and e…
00:30:46 |
Thu 31 Aug 2023
Late Summer Gardening
With autumn drawing closer and closer, we’re exploring late summer gardens – with all their lushness, colour, and vibrancy — and considering what we can get up to in the garden now to set us up well …
00:32:15 |
Thu 24 Aug 2023
Rewilding Small Spaces
Today’s show focuses on specific ways we can rewild gardens. We’re exploring how we can intervene in space spaces to create dynamic habitats – without using herds of free-roaming animals. Isabella Tr…
00:30:47 |
Thu 17 Aug 2023
Back on the Allotment
It’s National Allotment Week – a time to celebrate our country’s vast network of allotment plots and re-invest in our own dedication to growing fruit and veg. So for this week’s show, we’re taking a …
00:32:44 |
Thu 10 Aug 2023
Orchid Special
With the grand opening of Wisley’s Orchid House this past month and the publication of The Orchid Review – our annual orchid yearbook – within reach, we thought it the perfect time for another Orchid…
00:31:34 |
Thu 03 Aug 2023
Growing Up in the Garden
Now that it’s late July and the whole family’s around, we thought it the perfect time to explore gardening with kids and to reflect on our own memories of growing up in gardens, allotments, and parks…
00:31:51 |
Thu 27 Jul 2023
Trending at Tatton
RHS Flower Show Tatton Park is finally here! And we’re taking you on a tour of some of the highlights. We’re speaking with young designers like Camellia Hayes and Nathan Webster, exploring the new Se…
00:32:29 |
Fri 21 Jul 2023
Refashioning the Unfashionable
This week, we’ll be exploring a few of our cultivated genera and species that, for a variety of reasons, have gone out of style. We’ll hear about Plant Heritage’s Threatened Plant of the Year competi…
00:34:26 |
Thu 13 Jul 2023
RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2023
It’s the 30th anniversary of the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival and it’s looking better than ever. There’s a magnificent Floral Marquee filled with displays from over 80 nurseries, a Festiv…
00:34:57 |
Thu 06 Jul 2023
Fabulous Florals: Lilies, Verbena bonariensis, and Flowering Dogwoods
It’s peak summer – a time when many of our flowers are flourishing, adorning our gardens with bright colours and sweet, rich fragrances. We’ve gone from nurturing our gardens to flipping the switch –…
00:28:37 |
Thu 29 Jun 2023
Ungardening
Ungardening isn’t the antithesis of gardening – instead, it’s about taking a new perspective on what tending to the earth can look like. And that’s a fitting theme for today’s show, as it’s chock ful…
00:29:34 |
Thu 22 Jun 2023
Summer Scents
As we get closer and closer to the official start of summer, the fragrances of our favourite flora are reaching a fever pitch. So for today’s show, we decided to focus on the many smells of our June …
00:31:44 |
Thu 15 Jun 2023
June Garden Reset: GYO Chillies, Protect Your Soil, and Wonderful Wasps
It’s June and our gardens are now in full swing. It’s a wonderful time of year – that perfect sweet spot where we can start to take in the fruits of our spring labour, while still looking ahead to th…
00:29:24 |
Thu 08 Jun 2023
The Art of Our Gardens
In this special episode, we’re branching off from the regular content of the show to zero in on what we can make when using flora as both our inspiration and our medium. It’s about art – where the gr…
00:34:46 |
Thu 01 Jun 2023
It's Chelsea, Baby!
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023 is finally upon us! And this week, we’ve brought you an episode recorded amongst the hustle and bustle of designer gardens, best in class floral displays, traders, ta…
00:43:18 |
Wed 24 May 2023
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