Gardeners' Favourites: Trailer

Welcome to Gardeners' Favourites, a new podcast series featuring Alan Titchmarsh, Kate Bradbury and the team here at Gardeners World Magazine. We reveal our favourites and share why we love them. So join us for Gardeners' favourites, perhaps you'll discover your new gardening favourite. Episodes every Tuesday.</p> </p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

00:00:58

Growing Greener - Why Compost? With Ken Thompson

Compost is amazing for your plants, your soil, and the biodiversity in your garden. Pus making your own saves you money. So why do only one third of gardeners make their own? Many think that compost is: “Hard work, prone to failure, smelly and full of rats.”, not so, Ken Thompson, author of ‘Compost’ argues. Ken joins Arit to discuss and dispel the myths and misunderstandings of composting, and to convince listeners that compost is environmental black gold, not a load of old rot.</p> </p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

00:41:33

Tea-Break Tutorials - Caring for Houseplants in Winter

Winter can be hard on your houseplants, so follow Alan's no-fuss guide to keeping them looking good with just a few simple steps, from poinsettias and Christmas cactus to the nation's favourite moth orchids.</p> </p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

00:24:41

Growing Greener - Low Carbon Cut Flowers with Celestina Robertson

Flowers play a central part in our gardens, art, books, and many significant ceremonies around the world. Colourful, full of scent and architectural, flowers help us mark the big events in our lives. But the environmental price of our bouquets can be very high. Cel Robertson is a passionate eco-conscious, flower farmer, she shares practical solutions to growing flowers that look fabulous, smell gorgeous but have a small environmental footprint.</p> </p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

00:36:19

Tea-Break Tutorials - What to Prune in Winter

Get your gardening gloves on and gather your tools to do some invigorating winter pruning of shrubs and climbers. Winter pruning stimulates new growth so listen to Alan’s guide to which plants to prune and which to leave. With a few clear rules to follow you’ll be pruning with confidence to improve the shape, health and even flowering of climbers, shrubs, fruit trees and roses.</p> </p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

00:11:01

Growing Greener - No waste, no wastelands, with John Little

Garden designer John Little joins Arit to discuss the biodiversity possibilities of often overlooked and undervalued urban spaces. They discuss the vital role that low-quality soil, dead trees and recycled building rubble can play in creating wildlife habitats. Plus, how green roofs can promote biodiversity in small spaces. whilst also helping to save energy by cooling overheating buildings in the hotter months. </p> </p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

00:30:49

Tea-Break Tutorials - Taking Hardwood Cuttings

Alan reveals why hardwood cuttings are the easiest way to make new plants – no special kit required. Save yourself a load of money in return for just a bit of care and patience! You've nothing to lose and lots of pleasure to gain...</p> </p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

00:21:00

Growing Greener - Greener Grass with David Hedges-Gower

Can you have a lawn that doesn’t cost the earth? In years gone by, a flat, moss free striped green lawn was considered the hallmark of the ideal garden. Now lawns can be a contentious subject. Lawn consultant, David Hedges Gower, shares tips and techniques for creating grass areas which provide habitats for nature, and places for picnics and ballgames. Arit and David discuss how to reduce water consumption and increase biodiversity, plus, the surprising pros and cons of ‘no mow May’.</p> </p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

00:34:13

Tea-Break Tutorials - Growing Sweet Peas

Alan reveals his secrets to non-stop, fragrant sweet peas, from making an early start with your sowing, to the best ways to grow for bumper blooms</p> </p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

00:20:44

Growing Greener - Peat Free gardening with Alistair Griffiths and Nick Hamilton

The countdown to peat-free has begun, is this the end of gardening as we know it? Professor Alistair Griffiths, Director of Science and Collections at the RHS, and Nick Hamilton, from Barnsdale Gardens, think not. They discuss with Arit why preserving our peat bogs is so vital, sharing their in-depth knowledge of peat, as well as the upcoming changes to UK legislation.</p> </p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

00:33:09