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In this episode of The Gardener's Lodge podcast, Mykal sits down with Sarah Wilson, host of the acclaimed Roots and All podcast, for a wide-ranging and honest conversation about gardening, media, and integrity. Sarah reflects on her journey into horticulture, how podcasting has shaped her thinking, and why she's become more questioning of industry narratives, motives, greenwashing, and who gets amplified in gardening media. Together, they explore wildlife gardening, independent garden media, therapeutic landscapes, and what it means to garden thoughtfully in a changing world. DESIGN STUDIOGARDEN COACHINGFREE PERENNIAL GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOADFREE NATIVE NATIVE GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOAD________Episode Links:Roots and All Instagram Roots and All Website ________Mykal's Links:thegardenerslodge.co.ukInstagramTik Tok The Gardener's Lodge Design & Media ©2026

Ever thought about sharing your garden online, but not quite known where to start? This episode is for you.Mykal sits down with Tom Coleman, a social media specialist working within the horticultural industry, to talk about how gardeners can show up online with confidence. From the do's and don'ts of posting your garden, to staying authentic and enjoying the process, this conversation goes beyond algorithms and focuses on sharing your love of plants in a way that feels natural and sustainable.Whether you're quietly posting for fun or thinking about growing a small following, this episode will help you feel more comfortable putting your garden out into the world.DESIGN STUDIOGARDEN COACHINGFREE PERENNIAL GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOADFREE NATIVE NATIVE GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOAD________Episode Links:Tom's Website Tom's instagram ________Mykal's Links:thegardenerslodge.co.ukInstagramTik Tok The Gardener's Lodge Design & Media ©2026

World-renowned garden photographer Clive Nichols joins Mykal Hoare in the Lodge for a thoughtful conversation about photographing gardens at their most beautiful. Having captured some of the world's finest and most private gardens, including HRH King Charles III's garden at Birkhall, Clive reflects on a career spent observing gardens at their most fleeting and atmospheric.Together, they explore light, patience, and atmosphere in garden photography, alongside practical insights for gardeners and photographers looking to capture gardens with clarity and restraint.DESIGN STUDIOGARDEN COACHINGFREE PERENNIAL GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOADFREE NATIVE NATIVE GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOAD________Episode Links:Clive's Instagram Clives Website ________Mykal's Links:thegardenerslodge.co.ukInstagramTik Tok The Gardener's Lodge Design & Media ©2026

World-renowned planting designer Andrew Fisher Tomlin joins Mykal in the Lodge to talk all things planting design and reflect on a remarkable career in horticulture.Andrew is the founding director of the London College of Garden Design and a respected educator at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. His career spans decades at the very highest level of the profession, including judging show gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.In this conversation, Andrew shares the hard-won knowledge and insight gathered throughout his career, much of which now forms the basis of his first book, The Modern Professional Planting Designer — an Amazon No.1 bestseller.DESIGN STUDIOGARDEN COACHINGFREE PERENNIAL GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOADFREE NATIVE NATIVE GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOAD________Episode Links:Fisher Tomlin & BowyerAndrews Instragram ________Mykal's Links:thegardenerslodge.co.ukInstagramTik Tok Growing Media Production ©2025

Tom France is a passionate Ecologist from the United kingdom. This conversation is about all things british ecology, from re-wilding to the state of the british landscape. DESIGN STUDIOGARDEN COACHINGFREE PERENNIAL GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOADFREE NATIVE NATIVE GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOAD________Episode Links:Tom France instagram________Mykal's Links:thegardenerslodge.co.ukInstagramTik Tok Growing Media Production ©2025

Mykal is on a field trip this week to the Mountains Gourmet plot in the Mid Blue Mountains to visit Rhiannon Phillips, the founder of Mountains Gourmet. Rhiannon is passionate about supplying fresh, healthy, sustainably grown gourmet produce to her community.DESIGN STUDIOGARDEN COACHINGFREE PERENNIAL GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOADFREE NATIVE NATIVE GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOAD________Episode Links:Mountains Gourmet Website Mountains Gourmet Instagram ________Mykal's Links:thegardenerslodge.co.ukInstagramTik Tok Growing Media Production ©2025

Horticulturalist David Binch, is deeply passionate about Grevilleas. He runs Binchy's Garden in Dalyston, Victoria, known for its large collection of rare and endangered Grevillea species. Binchy is an expert Grevillea grafter. Take some time to step into Binchy's world with me, Lets nerd out over GrevilleasFREE NATIVE NATIVE GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD________Episode Links:Binchy's Instagram - @binchys_gardenBinchy's Youtube - @binchys_garden________Mykal's Links:Website - thegardenerslodge.com.auInstagram - @thegardenerslodgeauTik Tok - @thegardenerslodgeauGrowing Media Production ©2025

Good Friend, Business woman & Tropical Terrarium expert Cass from Plant with Cass joins us in The Lodge to chat all about the wonders and ease of closed lid Terrariums. DESIGN STUDIO GARDEN COACHING FREE PERENNIAL GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOAD FREE NATIVE NATIVE GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOAD________Episode Links:Plant With Cass website Plant With Cass Instagram________Mykal's Links:thegardenerslodge.co.ukInstagramTik Tok Growing Media Production ©2025

Jordan Alexander from the Shed Organics, has a passion for sharing horticultural Knowledge. Today he tells us all about his key steps to building healthy soil and growing healthy plants! FREE NATIVE NATIVE GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: DOWNLOAD________Episode Links:Jordans Website Jordans Instagram Jordans Youtube ________Mykal's Links:thegardenerslodge.co.ukInstagram Tik Tok Growing Media Production ©2025

Clancy Lester is an Australian Native Bee expert. Forget everything you thought you knew about bees. According to Clancy Lester, environmental educator and native bee researcher, the true heroes of Australia's pollination story aren't European honeybees, but thousands of native species that rarely get noticed—or understood. FREE NATIVE NATIVE GARDEN DESIGN DOWNLOAD: https://thegardenerslodge.co.uk/freenativedesigndownload ________ Episode Links:Clancy's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/beesandblossoms.aus/ Clancy's Website - https://nativebeehotels.com/ ________ Mykal's Links: Website - https://thegardenerslodge.co.uk/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thegardenerslodgeuk/ Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thegardenerslodge Growing Media Production ©2025

Lucy Mora coined the Term 'Garden Mapper' after being approached to illustrate water colour maps of Australian gardens. After moving back to the country some years ago she got her hands in the soil perfecting the skill of edible gardening.  - Lucy & host Mykal Hoare chat about combining her two passions illustration & Veggie Gardening to create her new book - 'The Kitchen Garden'CLICK HERE FOR PATREONCover Art by Ellissa Nolan  @Sakurartwatercolour________Episode Links:Lucy's Instagram - @thegardenmapperBuy - The Kitchen Garden ________Mykal's Links:Instagram - @mykalhoareFacebook - @mykalhoare_______Growing Media Links:www.growingmediaaus.com.auInstagram - @GrowingmediaausFacebook - @Growingmediaaus

Diego Bonetto, or otherwise known as theweedyone online is Australia's best known foraging expert having lead foraging workshops for more that 20 years. Diego and host Mykal chat about childhood farm life, fostering ecological empathy, the philosophy of foraging and his forthcoming book 'Eat Weeds: A field guide to foraging' CLICK HERE FOR PATREONCover Art by Ellissa Nolan  @Sakurartwatercolour________Episode Links:www.diegobonetto.comEat Weeds - Diego's BookInstagram @theweedyone________Mykal's Links:Instagram - @mykalhoareFacebook - @mykalhoare_______Growing Media Links:www.growingmediaaus.com.auInstagram - @GrowingmediaausFacebook - @Growingmediaaus

Steve Wood  is an award winning horticultural communicator and podcast host with over 40 years of  experience in the wholesale nursery business .  Steve and host Mykal chat about the the wide range of aspects of the horticultural industry that Steve has been involved in throughout his career from retail to wholesale right through to his media work.CLICK HERE FOR PATREONCover Art by Ellissa Nolan  @Sakurartwatercolour________Episode Links:All The Dirt Podcast________Growing Media Links:www.growingmediaaus.com.auInstagram - @GrowingmediaausFacebook - @Growingmediaaus_______Mykal's Links:Instagram - @mykalhoareFacebook - @mykalhoare

Growing your own Christmas tree can be a rewarding for you as a gardener as it grows and prospers with you and your family year on year.  Flying solo, host Mykal Hoare talks you though his guide for getting the most out of live potted Christmas trees. He shares his do's and don'ts for growing potted Christmas trees in Australia.CLICK HERE FOR PATREONCover Art by Ellissa Nolan  @Sakurartwatercolour________Growing Media Links:www.growingmediaaus.com.auInstagram - @GrowingmediaausFacebook - @Growingmediaaus_______Mykal's Links:Instagram - @mykalhoareFacebook - @mykalhoare

Emmanuela Prigioni (Manu) is a soil ecologist and the coordintor of peri-urban farming social enterprise 'Farm It Forward' that is based in the cool - temperate region of the Blue Mountains NSW.  Join host Mykal Hoare as he chats with Emmanuela about all things cool climate vegetable growing. Manu is pasionate about the health of her soils, learn how she achieves healthy produce while improving her soils in a cool climate. CLICK HERE FOR PATREONCover Art by Ellissa Nolan  @Sakurartwatercolour________Episode Links:Emmanuela Prigioni instagramwww.farmitforward.com.auFarm It Forward Instagram________Growing Media Links:www.growingmediaaus.com.auInstagram - @GrowingmediaausFacebook - @Growingmediaaus_______Mykal's Links:Instagram - @mykalhoareFacebook - @mykalhoare

Tom Bjorksten from Misty Creek Agroforestry in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales is pushing the boundaries of carbon sequestration and exploring uncharted territory in the Australian agriculture industry. Join Tom and Host Mykal Hoare in conversation about his young Syntropic Agroforestry, his tree range meat chickens and the future in Community Supported Agriculture.  CLICK HERE FOR PATREONCover Art by Ellissa Nolan  @Sakurartwatercolour________Episode Links:www.mistycreekagroforestry.com.auMisty Creek Agroforestry Instagram ________Growing Media Links:www.growingmediaaus.com.auInstagram - @GrowingmediaausFacebook - @Growingmediaaus _______Mykal's Links:Instagram - @mykalhoare

PermaQueer is a collaborative effort to share ecological sustainability methods through the lens of Permaculture and focussing accessibility to traditionally marginalised communities. Our goal is to spread knowledge of living within ecological boundaries. Join Host Mykal Hoare as he chats with PermaQueer founders Guy Ritani and Toad Dell about how to make tomorrow a better world by deconstructing our existing systems and recreating them through the lens of permaculture's defining principals.CLICK HERE FOR PATREONCover Art by Ellissa Nolan  @Sakurartwatercolour________Episode Links:PermaQueer Facebook PermaQueer Instagram Pay The Rent ________Growing Media Links:www.growingmediaaus.com.auInstagram - @GrowingmediaausFacebook - @Growingmediaaus_______Mykal's Links:Instagram - @mykalhoareFacebook - @mykalhoare

'Farm It Forward' is a not-for-profit peri-urban farming social enterprise connecting landowners and local young people who are passionate about growing food. The project develops skills and creates training and job opportunities, while tackling social isolation and fostering community wellbeing. Join Host Mykal as he chats with 'Farm It Forward' coordinator Emmanuela Prigioni about community building through veggies.CLICK HERE FOR PATREONCover Art by Ellissa Nolan  @Sakurartwatercolour________Episode Links:www.farmitforward.com.auFarm It Forward Spring Fundraiser Farm It Forward Instagram Emmanuela Prigioni instagram ________Growing Media Links:www.growingmediaaus.com.auInstagram - @GrowingmediaausFacebook - @Growingmediaaus_______Mykal's Links:Instagram - @mykalhoareFacebook - @mykalhoare

Deryn Thorpe is an award winning horticultural journalist and podcast host. Deryn dishes 'all the dirt' with host Mykal about her garden, process as a writer for Gardening Australia Magazine as well as her family business and time as a specialist garden tour guide.      CLICK HERE FOR PATREONCover Art by Ellissa Nolan  @Sakurartwatercolour________Episode Links:Deryns Website Deryns Instagram Plantation and Landcare Services All The Dirt Podcast ________Growing Media Links:www.growingmediaaus.com.auInstagram - @GrowingmediaausFacebook - @Growingmediaaus_______Mykal's Links:Instagram - @mykalhoareFacebook - @mykalhoare

Sarah Lloyd is a Naturalist, photographer and author of 'Where The Slime Mould Creeps'. Host Mykal Hoare dives into the enchanting microscopic world of Myxomycete Slime Moulds. CLICK HERE FOR PATREONCover Art by Ellissa Nolan  @Sakurartwatercolour________Episode Links:CLICK TO SEE SLIME MOULDS GLOSSARY Sarah's Instagram Sarah's Website Buy 'Where the Slime Mould Creeps'________Growing Media Links:www.growingmediaaus.com.auInstagram - @GrowingmediaausFacebook - @Growingmediaaus_______Mykal's Links:Instagram - @mykalhoareFacebook - @mykalhoare

Hannah Moloney is a permaculture designer  & much loved presenter on ABC's Gardening Australia. Host Mykal Hoare chats with Hannah about her new book 'The Good life: How To Grow A Better World' as well as her childhood, activism and home garden practices.  CLICK HERE FOR PATREON Cover Art by Ellissa Nolan  @Sakurartwatercolour________Episode Links: Good Life Permaculture Website Good Life Permaculture Instagram Good Life Permaculture Facebook Firesticks Homes For Homes ________Growing Media Links:www.growingmediaaus.com.auInstagram - @GrowingmediaausFacebook - @Growingmediaaus_______Mykal's Links:Instagram - @mykalhoareFacebook - @mykalhoare