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Bex Simon is a British Artsmith who has overcome difficult mental health issues to become highly sought after for her creative work in metal. Bex is unconstrained in her approach to design by combining geometric shapes and textures. Her sculptures and public art tell stories relative to the surrounding environment and can be found around the UK. Bex was born in Chertsey, Surrey in 1973, the third of four children—she has an older sister and brother and a younger brother. She reflects on a very strict upbringing from parents Tim, a computer programmer and Gel a retired teacher who later volunteered at a school for handicapped children; a relationship which has mellowed with time and understanding of Bex's mental health. Bex was attracted to the art of blacksmithing as a teenager and despite struggling at school with dyslexia, she studied at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design – Foundation graduating in 1992. In 1995 she graduated with a BA in Three-Dimensional Design in Metal Surrey from the Institute of Art and Design; followed in 1998 by a Diploma and National Certificate from Hereford College of Technology and in 2017 a Level 3 Diploma in Advanced Forge Work DFS from Herefordshire and Ludlow College. In 2019 she began studying Geometry at the Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts. In 1999 Bex moved to London and established her creative blacksmithing business with the help of the Prince's Trust. Initially, she worked on private commissions acquired from exhibiting regularly at RHS Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Shows. Later, she moved on to larger scale public artwork projects via collaborations with a selected group of artist blacksmiths. Her biggest commission to date being a forty meter public artwork for Westminster Magistrates' Courts in London. It was for that installation that she became the first woman to receive the Tonypandy Cup; the most prestigious award given by the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths. Bex lives in North Devon with her husband Dave and their daughters Molly and Lyonie. The book that Bex recommended on the YouTube video - https://www.youtube.com/@theaartpodcast -The Creative Art, A Way of Being by Rick Rubin Bex's links:https://bexsimon.com/https://www.instagram.com/bexsimonartsmith/ Bex's favorite female artists:Zaha HadidEmma KunzLousie Bourgeois Bex's playlist:Beastie Boys / SabotageSinead O'Connor / TroyDoja Cat / Paint the Town RedRadiohead / Street SpiritSleaford Mods / Nudge ItThe Sundays / Can't Be SureChase & Status / BackboneGoldfrapp / Ooh La LaSystem of A Down / Chop SueyRoyksopp Robyn / MonumentNia Archives / Off Wiv Ya HeadzHost: Chris StaffordProduced by Hollowell StudiosFollow @theaartpodcast on InstagramThe AART Podcast on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@theaartpodcastEmail: theaartpodcast@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wisp--4769409/support.
Bex Simon is a British Artsmith who has overcome difficult mental health issues to become highly sought after for her creative work in metal. Bex is unconstrained in her approach to design by combining geometric shapes and textures. Her sculptures and public art tell stories relative to the surrounding environment and can be found around the UK. Bex was born in Chertsey, Surrey in 1973, the third of four children—she has an older sister and brother and a younger brother. She reflects on a very strict upbringing from parents Tim, a computer programmer and Gel a retired teacher who later volunteered at a school for handicapped children; a relationship which has mellowed with time and understanding of Bex's mental health. Bex was attracted to the art of blacksmithing as a teenager and despite struggling at school with dyslexia, she studied at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design – Foundation graduating in 1992. In 1995 she graduated with a BA in Three-Dimensional Design in Metal Surrey from the Institute of Art and Design; followed in 1998 by a Diploma and National Certificate from Hereford College of Technology and in 2017 a Level 3 Diploma in Advanced Forge Work DFS from Herefordshire and Ludlow College. In 2019 she began studying Geometry at the Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts. In 1999 Bex moved to London and established her creative blacksmithing business with the help of the Prince's Trust. Initially, she worked on private commissions acquired from exhibiting regularly at RHS Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Shows. Later, she moved on to larger scale public artwork projects via collaborations with a selected group of artist blacksmiths. Her biggest commission to date being a forty meter public artwork for Westminster Magistrates' Courts in London. It was for that installation that she became the first woman to receive the Tonypandy Cup; the most prestigious award given by the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths. Bex lives in North Devon with her husband Dave and their daughters Molly and Lyonie. The book that Bex recommended on the YouTube video - https://www.youtube.com/@theaartpodcast -The Creative Art, A Way of Being by Rick Rubin Bex's links:https://bexsimon.com/https://www.instagram.com/bexsimonartsmith/ Bex's favorite female artists:Zaha HadidEmma KunzLousie Bourgeois Bex's playlist:Beastie Boys / SabotageSinead O'Connor / TroyDoja Cat / Paint the Town RedRadiohead / Street SpiritSleaford Mods / Nudge ItThe Sundays / Can't Be SureChase & Status / BackboneGoldfrapp / Ooh La LaSystem of A Down / Chop SueyRoyksopp Robyn / MonumentNia Archives / Off Wiv Ya HeadzHost: Chris StaffordProduced by Hollowell StudiosFollow @theaartpodcast on InstagramThe AART Podcast on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@theaartpodcastEmail: theaartpodcast@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/aart--5814675/support.
In this edition of DIG IT Peter Brown and Chris Day chat with horticultural journalist, garden designer and broadcaster Naomi Slade. Naomi's latest book, Chrysanthemum: Beautiful Varieties from Home and Garden, is a celebration of the ever so versatile Chrysanthemum. On the podcast we discover more about Naomi's garden design journey, plus great advice on planting and her love of plants, including some recommendations for winter interest.Plants mentioned: Apples, Cyclamen Florist types, Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, Daffodils, Elodea (Canadian Pondweed – now banned from sale), Herbs, Helleborus, Hardy Cyclamen Coum and C Hederifolium, Snowdrops (including Galanthus reginae-olgae 'Naomi Slade' (Monksilver Nursery), Rhubarb, Roses, Paeonies, Plums, Prunus subhirtella autumnalis (winter flowering cherry), Wild Strawberries, Tulips, consider more vigorous rootstocks in difficult soils when growing fruit trees. The aptly named Cottage Chrysanthemums range are reliable and hardy as are the varieties ‘Ruby Mound' and ‘Dulwich Pink' (RHS AGM).Scented winter plants: Sarcococca, Viburnum bodnantense, Snowdrops, Lonicera fragrantissima, Mahonia and Hamamelis (Witch Hazel). People, products mentioned: Sir David Attenborough, Gerald Durrell, photographer Georgianna Lane, Piet Oudolf, Sarah Raven and Halls of Heddon. Which Gardening, Garden News, Water Butts, Old bread knife for dividing perennial clumps in the spring.National Collection of Chrysanthemums: Norwell Nurseries and Gardens, Nottinghamshire.Show gardens mentioned: 'Never Mind The Hollyhocks' Award Winning punk-themed conceptual garden by Naomi Slade at RHS Hampton Court 2012 and The Flood Resilient Garden in conjunction with Dr Ed Barsley. Silver Medal Winner at RHS Chelsea 2024.Desert Island luxuries: Naomi's tool would be her trusted bread knife and an apple tree, maybe a ‘Bramley', would be her island tree of choice.To find out more about Naomi and her books visit her websiteOur thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Once again we apologise for the delay in releasing this episode. We will try harder.This week we take a look at the moon calendar. It's' sowing and planting time and we have a few suggestions for your vegetable and flower gardens.Ali visited Eltham Palace and grounds just after visiting RHS Chelsea, this garden is definitely one to visit if you find yourself in London. Boyhood home to King Henry VIII. The Palace was modernised in the 1930's in Art Deco style.Congratulations to our $20 Kings Seed Voucher winner. Emma Wood.If you have a minute the link below will take you to the Eltham Palace website.https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/eltham-palace-and-gardens/A helpful tip if you are a gardener or into history, and traveling to the UK The Heritage New Zealand Card (about $50) gets you into every National Trust and English Heritage property and Gardens for Free! Normal entry fees range from £10 to £30. Support the Show.You can contact us at coach@yourgardencoach.nz Please follow our Instagram page @yourgardencoach_nz where we regularly upload interesting gardening tips Our website is under construction, as you know good things take time.Keep a lookout for http://yourgardencoach.nz We hope you enjoy our podcast, designed for gardeners in the Central Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand - but not exclusively. Join us from wherever you happen to be and simply check the title of the podcast. e.g. Spring Ep1. to fit in with the season in your location.
Spring is the time of the gardening year where all gardeners sigh with relief, it's really time to get out and about and enjoy the wonderful world of horticulture. A garden waking up and showing its early colour and form is a wonderful space to live and work in, an it's no exception that Lucy and Saul revel in this time of year, as their gardening lives start to get busier with sowing, planting, propagation, mowing, mulching and all other gardening tasks. Sprinkle in some early flower shows and the odd plant fair and our gardening life is complete, so thank god for Spring!The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is again upon us, as gardening gets its 'Wimbledon' moment where everyone becomes a gardener for one week. Manicured gardens, fantastic flowers and plants, amazing skill and a lot of perspiration is on display as the horticultural world strives to put on the most mesmerising display of Gardening this year. Lucy and Saul are privileged to be allowed to attend the Monday press day for a preview of the show, and as ever the pair are wowed by the efforts that nurseryman, garden designer, landscaper and trade stands put on. So listen in for a few highlights, the odd quibble and lots of seeing our friends (and the odd celebrity )along the way.Instagram Links:Lucy headgardenerlcTwitter links:Saul @GardeningSaulIntro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Support the Show.
Digging the Dirt - The Allotment Garden Show with Russ & Jake
Join Russ at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show on the famous press & Royal day and also on medals day where he had an exclusive preview of the show. Russ talks to John Peace of John Peace Chrysanthemums about his preparations for the show and on being awarded a Gold medal. Russ also talks to Jewlsy Mathews and Mike McMahon of Mike McMahon Studios who won Gold on their first ever show garden at Chelsea, the Addleshaw Goddard Junglette Garden, an amazing balcony garden. You can see photos of my visit to RHS Chelsea 2024 on https://www.facebook.com/AllotmentPodcast/ Contact the show at: https://rparry1961.wixsite.com/diggingthedirt
In this episode, Elaine and Julia go potty about the flowers they are growing this year in the week of RHS Chelsea. Also, part two of our interview with Lee Norbury. If you enjoy the Plotcast and would like to leave us a support us to keep going - head to https://ko-fi.com/thepottyplotters Follow us @pottyplotters on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter Get in touch: naughtycorner@pottyplotters.uk A podcast for help with your allotment or gardening.
Lee heads to RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 to look at some of the children's highlights of the year. With The No Adults Allowed Garden, Children's Picnic and the Children's Choice Award, there's a lot to unpack and an honest review as ever from Lee. What worked, what didn't? find out in this episode!Enjoyed this episode? How about sharing the love? Give us a glowing 5-star review, share on your socials, or spread the word to a neighbour! Leave your review, and you might snag a copy of our favourite "How to Get Kids Gardening" book.DONATE to the peak challenge at https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/BGProjects?utm_term=Q3YVvzeWP&fbclid=PAAaaMetAs1ycUbajJMS8Ye1LGsTboAs_oz7ZbHJbz-S4jbJV2WrJMQV5I2hk_aem_ATDzZQbc4Em8F-eLG8itTS1K1GfRGkuFw2RTWtIZa9p4LMmeb-Yb5UP8XE68A4SbwFMTransform your school garden journey by joining School Gardening Success today! Experience the outdoors, guided by teacher support, engaging video lessons, and equipped with all the essential tools for a blooming garden. Find out more at https://schoolgardeningsuccess.co.uk Eager to create lasting memories while gardening with your children? Grab the "How to Get Kids Gardening" book for just £10 using discount code PODCAST24. Every penny from the book goes back into supporting school gardening initiatives. Get your copy at https://skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/shop/how-to-get-kids-gardening-bookCraving more green inspiration? Check out our sister podcast, The Veg Grower Podcast, for an extra dose of vegetable-growing fun. Tune in and let the gardening adventures continue!Thanks for listening!
Kate Turner is a skilled horticulturist who has been working on compost formulations and providing customer advice on all things compost for many years. Find out what exactly compost is, what the biggest changes are including peat free compost and what the future is for compost on the market for gardeners. Afterwards, @mr_plantgeek and @ellenmarygardening chat with @shegrowsveg Lucy and Kate about their new Heirloom seed company and their plans for RHS Chelsea 2024. Proud to announce Hydria as the series 15 sponsors! Hydria™ is the world's first all-in-one water fountain kit that fits any planter or pot. Perfect for patios, balconies and even indoors as a water feature with a difference. Not only can the water sound soothe you and look wonderful in your garden but the fountain is available with various colours, attachments and tiles so you can truly personalise your fountain to your own space. Find out more about Hydria when you listen to the podcast and via their website: https://www.hydrialife.com Also check them out on socials: Instagram: @hydria_fountain Facebook: @hydriafountain
The ‘Muscular Dystrophy UK Forest Bathing Garden' is being designed by Ula Maria. Ula is a renowned garden and landscape designer based in London who specialises in creating distinctive outdoor spaces for private and commercial clients in the UK and overseas. After winning RHS ‘Young Designer of the Year' in 2017, Ula Maria set up her studio with a focus on creating emotive garden spaces and has previously designed garden spaces at other UK garden shows, but this is her first at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. @ellenmarygardening chats with Ula to find out more about her passion for landscaping and the RHS Chelsea show garden she has designed. Proud to announce Hydria as the series 14 sponsors! Hydria™ is the world's first all-in-one water fountain kit that fits any planter or pot. Perfect for patios, balconies and even indoors as a water feature with a difference. Not only can the water sound soothe you and look wonderful in your garden but the fountain is available with various colours, attachments and tiles so you can truly personalise your fountain to your own space. Find out more about Hydria when you listen to the podcast and via their website: https://www.hydrialife.com Also check them out on socials: Instagram: @hydria_fountain Facebook: @hydriafountain
In this episode @ellenmarygardening talks to RHS Chelsea newcomer Giulio Giorgi all about the design process and why this garden is so important. The World Child Cancer's Nurturing Garden is a sensory haven designed for children with cancer and their families to bring joy, hope and escapism through experiences with nature. After the show, it will be relocated permanently to one of the Young Lives vs Cancer ‘Homes from Home', which allows families to stay together whilst a child is undergoing cancer treatment. Follow the journey of the garden by following @giulio__giorgi on Instagram plus @project.giving.back to see it all coming together. www.giuliogiorgi.com Proud to announce Hydria as the new series 14 sponsors! Hydria™ is the world's first all-in-one water fountain kit that fits any planter or pot. Perfect for patios, balconies and even indoors as a water feature with a difference. Not only can the water sound soothe you and look wonderful in your garden but the fountain is available with various colours, attachments and tiles so you can truly personalise your fountain to your own space. Find out more about Hydria when you listen to the podcast and via their website: https://www.hydrialife.com Also check them out on socials: Instagram: @hydria_fountain Facebook: @hydriafountain
This week's guest is Naomi Slade. Naomi is a journalist, author, designer and consultant. She works as a writer and broadcaster and lectures on a range of specialist subjects. She has written a number of popular gardening books and as if that weren't enough, she's also an award-winning garden designer and will be exhibiting the Flood Resilient Garden, which she's co-designed with Ed Barsley, at RHS Chelsea 2024. We're speaking about her latest book, The Winter Garden: Celebrating the Winter Season. Dr Ian Bedford's Bug of the Week: Organic Recyclers and Millipedes The Winter Garden by Naomi Slade Other epsiodes if you liked this one: New Nordic Gardens Natural Stone Support the podcast on Patreon
Arit Anderson is a garden designer, writer and presenter on BBC Two's Gardeners' World.She spent 25 years working in the dynamic industries of retail fashion and creative events. She managed teams that delivered collections and events across the globe. She balanced this fast-paced career with interests in well-being, working as a therapist and teaching holistic therapies, which led her to travel extensively to the USA.It was the joy of having her own garden that enabled Arit to diversify her creative experiences. She found that the visual nature of fashion and the healing properties of her therapies could beautifully meld in the garden. Playing with a new palette of colour and materials in her garden, drove her to explore the unique relationships between her love of plants, people and place. After just one season, Arit knew she wanted horticulture to become her work as well as her pleasure.She studied gardening at Capel Manor College and whilst there had success at RHS Chelsea 2013 winning the Fresh Talent category for a student design collaboration with two other students. After attaining a diploma in garden design, she won a Gold Medal for her own design at RHS Hampton Court in 2016 in the conceptual category.In her designs for both private and commercial clients her ethos includes simplicity and environmental sensitivity – affecting her choice of products and plants at source, with regard to their future setting. Working as presenter for Gardeners World, and writing for national publications has enabled Arit to publicise issues about the future of gardening in an ever-changing climate, and promote solutions to the wider public.
What is that on the horizon - well, it's Spring of course. The klaxon for warmer, longer days is finally sounding and Head Gardeners Saul and Lucy are looking forward to it immensely. Spring is a wonderful time of year but also incredibly busy for all professional gardeners up and down the country as the gardens come alive with colour, texture and the occasional weed! Join them both as they navigate this beautiful time of year, bringing you the sights and sounds of Stonelands and East Donyland, as well as their home gardens and beyond.It's the highlight of the horticultural calendar, as the Talkings Heads pair head to the big smoke of London for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The show is always a talking point for any garden year, sometimes controversial, but always a mecca of what the UK and the world can achieve in the horticultural sphere. Gardens embraced a more naturalistic, sustainable theme with the hot topic of 'weeds' bringing much deliberation. The Great Pavilion felt more alive than ever, with a buzz that has been missing for a couple of years - some of the displays, including the exhibit Lucy was involved in building, were magnificent. We also tucked into some good food, admired a fantastic greenhouse and, as with every year, gossiped and chewed the cud with all our garden friends that we might only see in this hub-bub of the horticultural world.Twitter link:Saul @GardeningSaulInstagram link:Lucy @HeadGardenerLCIntro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Support the show
Lee heads to RHS Chelsea 2023, where for the first time 100 school children are invited to join the press day!Which are the biggest Childrens gardens of 2023? Which was Lee's favourite? and how did bringing Children into the Showground change the show, and could it save Chelsea?Join School Gardening Success. The best way to get your class gardening, with all the equipment, all of the lessons and most importantly teacher support. Find out more at https://schoolgardeningsuccess.co.uk 3 NEW podcasts EVERY WEEKListen to Teacher/ Parent Garden Club athttps://Skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/podOR EXTREME Gardening athttps://anchor.fm/skinnyjeangardener OR BRAND NEW 2 Gardener, 1 Story athttps://t.co/9vZd3vNbph Get more gardening with the How to get Kids Gardening Book, NOW ONLY £10 https://https://skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/shop/how-to-get-kids-gardening-book
April, as they say, can be one of the cruellest months with sun one minute and frosty mornings and bitter winds the next. In this edition of Dig It Peter Brown and Chris Day look at some of the current news stories, provide a round-up of popular events coming up and those pressing gardening jobs that need to be done this month. What's on1 - 2 April: Cornwall Garden Society Spring Flower ShowPlant Fairs at Great Dixter 1-2nd April, Evenley Wood Rare Plant Fair on 2nd April and the Spring Fair Roadshow at Arundel Castle on 23rd April.20 - 23rd April: Harrogate Spring Flower Show28 - 30th April: BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair in Beaulieu, New Forest, Hampshire. Product mentions: BBQs, RHS seeds, Tomorite Tomato food, Doff Tomato food, Vitax Q4 fertiliser, propagation cell trays, peat-free seed sowing compost, Vermiculite, Perlite, Fleece, Root Trainers, Lawn feeds, scarifiers and overseeding with lawn seed.Plants mentioned: Apples ‘Flower of Kent' and ‘Bramley's Original.' Antirrhinum, Cosmos, Marigolds, Sweet Peas, and Zinnia. Broad beans, Mustard and Cress, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Squashes, Marrows and Sweet Corn. Buddleja, Dahlias, Rosemary, Root wrapped Roses, English Bluebells and Thyme.NewsAlan Titchmarsh: ‘I tend not to follow my own gardening advice.'Plants in Peril Plant Atlas Report.Blue Diamond / National Trust tie in.National Trust Manchester's Victorian Sky Park.Rare Moonflower blooms at Cambridge Botanic Gardens. Frank Mathews wins the Stanley Lord Bowl award for the best RHS fruit display in 2022.RHS Flower Show organisers move towards being greener with more sustainability in the briefs in all garden designs and show operations.Lindengate rehomes RHS Chelsea garden.Floating islands made from plastic bottles to grow crops in Singapore.King Charles III Sandringham West Lawn eco-garden makeover.Windowsill gardening campaign.Tackling damping off when germinating seeds.Dig it top 5 Spring potted bulbs 1 1-litre pots of Narcissi 'Tête-à-Tête' 2 Galanthus nivalis (snowdrop) 3 Winter Aconite 4 Narcissi 'Tête-à-Tête' (6-pack) 5 9cm English Bluebell.Our thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for the music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Elaine and Julia look at two of the most popular vegetables - peas and carrots, and catch up with RHS Chelsea winner Will Murray from "It Will Grow" Follow us @pottyplotters on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter Get in touch: naughtycorner@pottyplotters.uk A podcast for for help with your allotment or gardening.
Arit Anderson is a garden designer, writer and presenter on BBC Two's Gardeners' World.She spent 25 years working in the dynamic industries of retail fashion and creative events. She managed teams that delivered collections and events across the globe. She balanced this fast-paced career with interests in well-being, working as a therapist and teaching holistic therapies, which led her to travel extensively to the USA.It was the joy of having her own garden that enabled Arit to diversify her creative experiences. She found that the visual nature of fashion and the healing properties of her therapies could beautifully meld in the garden. Playing with a new palette of colour and materials in her garden, drove her to explore the unique relationships between her love of plants, people and place. After just one season, Arit knew she wanted horticulture to become her work as well as her pleasure.She studied gardening at Capel Manor College and whilst there had success at RHS Chelsea 2013 winning the Fresh Talent category for a student design collaboration with two other students. After attaining a diploma in garden design, she won a Gold Medal for her own design at RHS Hampton Court in 2016 in the conceptual category.In her designs for both private and commercial clients her ethos includes simplicity and environmental sensitivity – affecting her choice of products and plants at source, with regard to their future setting. Working as presenter for Gardeners World, and writing for national publications has enabled Arit to publicise issues about the future of gardening in an ever-changing climate, and promote solutions to the wider public.
This weeks episode not only covers this weeks gardening news but it's also a celebration of previous podcasts withs a best of episode including @mrplantgeek and @ellenmarygardening top picks from all series. Hear snippets from some of the top downloaded episodes including: The Science of Edibles at Kew Gardens Series 9 Episode 1 Wildflowers at Natural Surroundings Series 8 Episode 6 Fermenting with Mark DIacono Series 8 Episode 4 Foraging with Monica Wilde Series 7 Episode 2 New plants with Ball Colegrave Series 5 Episode 1 RHS Chelsea with Nicki Chapman Series 4 Episode 9 Sponsor of series 10 is @lavaliteuk - a range of products that offer the horticultural world ecological solutions, including moisture management, frost protection, pest control and soil conditioning. Find them at: www.lava-lite.co.uk The Plant Based Podcast: www.theplantbasedpodcast.net Instagram Twitter Facebook
Spring 2022 has arrived and a new chapter in our gardening lives has started as bulbs, early blossom and the early tufts of seedlings and herbaceous perennials speak of the year ahead. As days in spring seem to tumble one after another in an ever-accelerating list of garden jobs, plantings and hum of mowers - it's a great time to shake off the winter slumber and start to engage with the natural world around us, enjoying the spectacles of spring that lie within. As ever, Saul and Lucy will bring you their waffled musings and exciting revelations as this most joyous of seasons unfolds!So after a 3 year hiatus, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is back in its usual May slot with all the pomp and ceremony you can expect from what is the world's most prestigious gathering of flowers, gardens and horticulturists. Both Lucy and Saul were very privileged to be able to see the show on its traditional Monday Press Day, and although the spent a very busy day in conversation with many garden friends they hadn't seen for quite a while, the pair discuss their highlights and memories from a day outside their own gardens.Twitter links:Saul @GardeningSaulLucy @HeadGardenerLCIntro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Support the show
In this episode hear all the behind the scenes gossip from Helen Boem, floral marquee manager for the Royal Horticultural Society. With RHS Chelsea flower show on this week, Helen chats to @mrplantgeek and @ellenmarygardening about what it takes to organise the marquee, how nurseries are supported and what to expect this year. A true behind the scenes tour! Also hear from our contributors @anya_thegarden_fairy and @unwrappedandrefill This series is sponsored by Hillier Garden Centres The Plant Based Podcast: www.theplantbasedpodcast.net Instagram Twitter Facebook
Grow, Cook, Inspire; with gardening & cooking at it’s core
In the second episode of my RHS Chelsea preview series I speak with award winning gardening designer, Polly Wilkinson. We discuss the garden she is creating for the Charity Mothers for Mothers, supported by Project Giving Back. It is titled This Too Shall Pass, and explores mental health issues and the challenges faced my women during motherhood, challenges magnified over the last two years.
We're honoured to have one of the UK's top plantswomen (and some), Rosy Hardy - founder of Hardys Cottage Garden Plants and holder of no fewer than 24 RHS Chelsea gold medals for this week's LYG Podcast. Rosy talks about her passion for horticulture, her love of herbaceous plants, and shares some timely advice on Spring planting, plant pairing, planting with clay and propagation as well as an insight into some of her less glamorous experiences of the Chelsea show! It's a lovely chat and one which you'll want to rewind and listen to again so you don't miss the wealth of useful tips and plant suggestions. John chips in with his customary wisdom and some truly brilliant (irony alert) jokes! Enjoy, and do check out the chapter tab if you're in a hurry.Here's a link to Rosy's Youtube site which has a wealth of info and instructional videos:https://www.youtube.com/c/RosyHardyGardening/null
Summer is upon us at last! The warmer weather seems much overdue this year, so Lucy and Saul are relieved to at last see the abundance of growth that this season can bring. This explosion requires selective intervention and management, so get ready for lively conversations about how these two experienced Head Gardeners keep calm - and cool - during the garden's peak period. At the start of Saul's week break from his usual working life at Stonelands he travelled up to his old stomping ground in London to visit the RHS Chelsea Flower show - an event he managed some 7 years ago and he hadn't visited since. With the added bonus of being the first ever Chelsea held in September he was very much looking forward to seeing if the show had evolved and gives his opinion on the show.Twitter links:Saul @GardeningSaulLucy @HeadGardenerLCIntro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021 is here for a one off Autumn Edition. Is it the same? and is it worth visiting this year?Lee visits RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021 Press Day to find out whats going on at the show and whether he thinks its really worth visiting in 2021?Giving you his Top 5 parts of the show, Lee takes you for a tour around the show ground with the Sanctuary gardens, Show gardens and Artisan gardens, giving a special mention to parts you may miss out on too. In todays episode we also give a special mention to former guest of the show John Challis as he sadly passed last week. a great guest who was a real hit when first aired a few years ago. With thank to our sponsors..Got a project in the garden? Find the right tool for the job with WORX >>> www.worx-uk.com Look good and Feel good with clothing from Bestdays Vintage >>> www.bestdaysvintage.co.uk TEACHER or PARENT? Want to get your school gardening? The School Gardening Success Plan is for you! Find out more >>> https://skinnyjeangardener.co.uk/schoolsuccessAre you wondering How to get Kids Gardening? Wonder no more! HOW TO GET KIDS GARDENING by The Skinny Jean Gardener is OUT NOW >>> https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1916293301/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1916293301&linkCode=as2&tag=leeconnelly-21&linkId=9d68ff7051c58729dbbab47fa77f4158
Grow, cook, eat, arrange with Sarah Raven & Arthur Parkinson
With the highly anticipated, and slightly belated, Chelsea Flower Show 2021 just a week away, this week's episode of ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange' offers us a perfect chance to talk with one of the show's most prolific and accomplished garden designers - the wonderful Ann-Marie Powell.Missing just a single year of the show since 1997 (understandably for the birth of her now-12 year old), Ann-Marie shares the tales from her formative years and TV career that fuelled her unbridled botanical passion, her visionary approach to designing a captivating garden, and what we can expect from a Chelsea show which promises to bring some seasonal surprises.In this episode, discover:Ann-Marie's inspiring experiences with gardening through her formative yearsThe authentic passion behind Ann-Marie's exciting designs and delightful presence on social mediaWhich show stopping flowers will be stealing the spotlight at RHS Chelsea this yearHow Ann-Marie and the team are creating their gorgeous exhibition with such a tight turnaround timeView all products mentioned and find further advice from Sarah: https://bit.ly/3f2DFiHOrder Sarah's new book: https://bit.ly/2TWHJczOrder Arthur's new book: https://bit.ly/3xOov7HShop on the Sarah Raven Website: http://bit.ly/3jvbaeuGet in touch: info@sarahraven.comFollow Sarah: https://bit.ly/3jDTvBpFollow Arthur: https://bit.ly/3jxSKK5Follow Ann-Marie: https://bit.ly/3kdxwDl
This week we're exploring the relationship between art and gardens. Including an interview with award-winning designer Sarah Price who shares her experience of using art to inspire her RHS Chelsea gold medal winning gardens, and we visit a new David Hockney exhibition celebrating the arrival of spring in his garden in France. Plus plant-loving Instagrammers discuss how social media affects the way we garden and Curator of RHS Garden Wisley, Matthew Pottage, shares tips how to use sculpture in your home plot.
July in the Garden Show NotesProducts mentionedCottage Delight Sticky Wings and Rib SaucePlant fertilisers and organic sprays: Vitax Q4, Vitax Blood, Fish and Bone, Tomato feed Sulphate of Potash, Vitax Plant Guard Organic for controlling pests and diseases – available in store.Plants mentioned: Lady's Mantle (Alchemilla mollis), Clematis montana, Trachelospermum jasminoides, Hardy geraniums, Mock Orange (Philadelphus) Pyracantha, Apples, Pears, Hellebores, Thyme, Ivy (Hedera), English Lavender, French Lavender,Look out for Christmas spuds from Taylors. Expected varieties ‘Charlotte', ‘Desiree', ‘Maris Peer', ‘Pentland Javelin' and ‘Sharpes Express'. A pack of tubers will cost £2.99. Available in store from mid-July onwards.National BBQ Week celebrates its Silver Anniversary this year between Friday 2nd July - Sunday 11th July, at Buckingham Garden Centre we will have some BBQ themed specials in the Gardeners' Retreat Restaurant.Weber BBQ and accessoriesRHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 6th -11th July Love Parks Week 12th-21st July. Enjoy our open spaces and help our mental and physical well-being too. Parks mentioned by Peter and Chris Abington Park, Northampton, Williamson Park, Lancaster, Cannock Chase Park, Rutland Water and Nature Reserve and combine a visit to Barnsdale Gardens, Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire, The Savill Garden and Philips Park, Whitefield. Why not share your favourite parks at #LoveParksA few of the many plants that will help attract Bees to your GardenRadio 2's Big Bee Challenge (children's Garden Design Competition in the conjunction with the RHS) with the Big Bee Challenge Weekend (Saturday 31st July – 1st August)Find out more about bees and beekeeping hereBee Identification tips HTA Photographic Competition 2021, a chance to win tickets to next year's RHS Chelsea flower show and get your photo onto a HTA gift card!As the school summer holidays fast approach, a brief mention of the National Gardening Week website and the RHS website for children's activitiesHow to Extend the Flowering Season in Your Garden using the Chelsea Chop and the Hampton Hack.Music by Chiltern Music Therapy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
It's a bumper year for 'The greatest flower show on earth' as 2021 sees not one but two RHS Chelseas! Join Shows Manager Katherine Potsides as she lifts the lid on this bubbling cauldron of gardening goodness. Including interviews with multi award-winning garden designer Sarah Eberle and clematis connoisseur Raymond Evison, who share their thoughts on the opportunities and challenges presented by an autumn show. Plus our weekly GYO slot with expert advice on a technique to really make the most of every square inch of your vegetable plot.
In this episode, recorded for National Gardening Week, host Laura McMahon talks to Tayshan Hayden-Smith and Danny Clarke of charity Grow2Know. Tayshan, a lifelong resident of the community around Grenfell Tower, founded the charity in 2017 to bring residents together through the power of collective action, creating green spaces in the community designed to uplift and unify. Danny Clarke, AKA The Black Gardener, is a garden designer and TV presenter as well as being a Director of Grow2Know. Together they discuss the importance of horticulture to physical and mental health, the difficulties faced by people of diverse backgrounds in a mainly white and often affluent-seeming industry, how to make it appeal to all and how they’re building an RHS Chelsea garden in honour of the Mangrove 9.About The Royal Parks: The Royal Parks is the charity that exists to make sure London’s eight historic royal parks will always be there to enrich the lives of local residents and visitors to London. The charity looks after eight of London’s largest open spaces: Hyde Park, The Green Park, Richmond Park, Greenwich Park, St James’s Park, Bushy Park, The Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill, and Kensington Gardens. For more information visit www.royalparks.org.uk Follow The Royal Parks on Twitter @theroyalparks, Facebook.com/TheRoyalParksLondon and Instagram.com/TheRoyalParksSupport the show (https://www.royalparks.org.uk/support-the-parks)Support the show (https://www.royalparks.org.uk/support-the-parks)Support the show (https://www.royalparks.org.uk/support-the-parks)Support the show (https://www.royalparks.org.uk/support-the-parks)
In the 3rd of these 4 specials, Charlotte catches up with RHS Chelsea gold winning designer Charlotte Harris. The first time they spoke was 4 years ago in Charlotte Harris' stationary cupboard. Seems this last year we all feel a bit like we've been living in a cupboard. They talk Chelsea 2021, escaping to Scotland and what they'd like to do when freedom returns...Support the show: www.ko-fi.com/growingwildEmail: growingwildreverb@gmaail.comInsta: @growingwildfm
We start 2021 with a chat to Juliet Sargeant, RHS Chelsea gold medal winning garden designer and founder of the Sussex Garden School. Find out more about Juliet's design ethos and her secret mission as well as her surprising confession regarding her own garden. Juliet also has advice for anyone wanting to pursue a career in garden design.
This Q&A explores your ethical gardening dilemmas whilst inspiring new ideas for cultivating healthy plants and ethics in your garden or back yard. Hosted by Ellen Mary, your gardening questions will be answered by the following panel of horticulturalists, urban growers, vegan organic activists and compost nerds: Jenny Griggs, Dr Margi Lennartsson and Tony Martin. Ethical Consumer Week 2020, explored the role of consumers, businesses, and NGOs in building more resilient communities in the face of Covid-19 and the ecological crisis. We discussed the underlying issues, a radically reimagined future and the actions that we can all take to support just transitions. We gained inspiration from those exploring the answers and already creating ripples of change. www.ethicalconsumerweek.com Hosted by: Ellen Mary Ellen Mary is a vegan, veganic and no dig gardener. She provides talks about our intrinsic links to nature for wellbeing through gardening and plant life. Ellen also hosts a horticultural radio show, presents The Plant Based Podcast and writes for numerous publications worldwide. Ellen has appeared on NBC (WCNC Charlotte, USA), BBC Countryfile Diaries, BBC News, Mustard TV, and has featured in The Times newspaper and filmed with the Royal Horticultural Society plus many more. She has spoken at many shows including RHS Chelsea, RHS Chatsworth, GROW Scotland and The Handmade Festival about wellbeing, plant based eating and gardening. With: Dr Margi Lennartsson, Associate Professor at Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University and, previously, Head of Research at Garden Organic, has been involved in a wide range of research on organic horticulture and sustainable food production systems, working with gardeners, community growers and commercial growers. Recently, this has included research related to the health and wellbeing aspects of community food growing. Margi is passionate about the benefits that can be achieved by encouraging people to take an active role in organic growing – benefits for the environment, for human health and wellbeing, for building stronger communities and for enabling people to live sustainable lives. Jenny Griggs completed her MSc in 1997 around the auditing of organic farms which led to her co-writing the textbook Growing Green with her mentor in 2005. In 2009 she founded Climate Friendly Food CIC where she writes about sustainable land use. She manages a 5 acre farm and works part timd for Lancashire Wildlife Trust. Tony Martin is editor of Growing Green International, magazine of the Vegan Organic Network. He has been vegan since 1986 and since 2003 has been running a 5 acre veganic smallholding in South Wales, UK using permaculture techniques. In 2011 he gained his Permaculture Design Certificate with Aranya and continues to learn about working with nature rather than fighting it. He believes that veganic agriculture can help reduce climate change, and improve the quality of life for both humans and animals. Anna Clayton (tech support) joined Ethical Consumer in 2013. Since then, one of her highlights has been co-developing the Lush Spring Prize – a project that aims to support the regenerative movement around the world. Anna also works part-time for LESS, a sustainability organisation in Lancaster, where she is overseeing the development of a cross-sector food partnership that delivers the work of FoodFutures – Lancaster’s Sustainable Food Places initiative. Anna sits on the management committee of Claver Hill Community Food Project in Lancaster, runs an annual heritage fruit tree grafting workshop and saves seeds as part of Lancaster Seed Library. More audio can be found at: www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-consumer-week-2020-building-resilient-communities
This Q&A explores your ethical gardening dilemmas whilst inspiring new ideas for cultivating healthy plants and ethics in your garden or back yard. Hosted by Ellen Mary, your gardening questions will be answered by the following panel of horticulturalists, urban growers, vegan organic activists and compost nerds: Jenny Griggs, Dr Margi Lennartsson and Tony Martin. Ethical Consumer Week 2020, explored the role of consumers, businesses, and NGOs in building more resilient communities in the face of Covid-19 and the ecological crisis. We discussed the underlying issues, a radically reimagined future and the actions that we can all take to support just transitions. We gained inspiration from those exploring the answers and already creating ripples of change. www.ethicalconsumerweek.com Hosted by: Ellen Mary Ellen Mary is a vegan, veganic and no dig gardener. She provides talks about our intrinsic links to nature for wellbeing through gardening and plant life. Ellen also hosts a horticultural radio show, presents The Plant Based Podcast and writes for numerous publications worldwide. Ellen has appeared on NBC (WCNC Charlotte, USA), BBC Countryfile Diaries, BBC News, Mustard TV, and has featured in The Times newspaper and filmed with the Royal Horticultural Society plus many more. She has spoken at many shows including RHS Chelsea, RHS Chatsworth, GROW Scotland and The Handmade Festival about wellbeing, plant based eating and gardening. With: Dr Margi Lennartsson, Associate Professor at Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University and, previously, Head of Research at Garden Organic, has been involved in a wide range of research on organic horticulture and sustainable food production systems, working with gardeners, community growers and commercial growers. Recently, this has included research related to the health and wellbeing aspects of community food growing. Margi is passionate about the benefits that can be achieved by encouraging people to take an active role in organic growing – benefits for the environment, for human health and wellbeing, for building stronger communities and for enabling people to live sustainable lives. Jenny Griggs completed her MSc in 1997 around the auditing of organic farms which led to her co-writing the textbook Growing Green with her mentor in 2005. In 2009 she founded Climate Friendly Food CIC where she writes about sustainable land use. She manages a 5 acre farm and works part timd for Lancashire Wildlife Trust. Tony Martin is editor of Growing Green International, magazine of the Vegan Organic Network. He has been vegan since 1986 and since 2003 has been running a 5 acre veganic smallholding in South Wales, UK using permaculture techniques. In 2011 he gained his Permaculture Design Certificate with Aranya and continues to learn about working with nature rather than fighting it. He believes that veganic agriculture can help reduce climate change, and improve the quality of life for both humans and animals. Anna Clayton (tech support) joined Ethical Consumer in 2013. Since then, one of her highlights has been co-developing the Lush Spring Prize – a project that aims to support the regenerative movement around the world. Anna also works part-time for LESS, a sustainability organisation in Lancaster, where she is overseeing the development of a cross-sector food partnership that delivers the work of FoodFutures – Lancaster’s Sustainable Food Places initiative. Anna sits on the management committee of Claver Hill Community Food Project in Lancaster, runs an annual heritage fruit tree grafting workshop and saves seeds as part of Lancaster Seed Library. More audio can be found at: www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-consumer-week-2020-building-resilient-communities
In today's episode I talk to TV Presenter & Garden Designer Danny Clarke. Danny is a TV British horticulturist who co-hosts the BBC series The Instant Gardener with Helen Skelton. Danny was born in Oxford to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He founded his own garden design company in 1997, and called himself The Black Gardener. It was this name that led him to him being noticed and invited to screen test for The Instant Gardener, a daytime BBC programme that started in 2015. Danny also appeared as a presenter for the BBC on the RHS Chelsea and RHS Tatton Flower shows and Tree of the Year for Channel 4. He is currently presenting garden design with the ITV This Morning team as well as appearing in various other press, television and radio productions. Danny's story is inspiring and ignites a love of nature to anyone who listens to him speak about the natural world through his positive, gentle and kind manner.
This is an interview I did with garden designer and author of the book Scent Magic, Isabel Bannerman. You will deduce from some of the comments in the episode that it was recorded in autumn last year and for one reason or another, I’ve sat on it all that time, never quite sure when to release it. Of course, there are scents in the garden all year round, but when you’re heading towards winter and the scent of a sweet pea flower seems a lifetime away, somehow I couldn’t quite get together the enthusiasm for the subject matter that I felt this episode deserved, especially as scents are such an important thing to me. If you read the book, you will realise these ethereal, ephemeral things make up an integral part of our very being and yet we don’t have a consensus on a vocabulary to even begin to describe them. As the natural world bursts into green and flower around us, stick your nose in the air and have a good sniff. About Isabel Bannerman: Alongside Julian Bannerman, Isabel heads up a garden design practice. Together, the couple have designed gardens for HRH The Prince of Wales, clients from the worlds of film and fashion and have won gold medals at RHS Chelsea for their work. Isabel is also an accomplished photographer with 4 solo shows under her belt and is the author of two books, 'Scent Magic’ and ‘Landscape of Dreams’ (2016). What We Discuss: The importance of scent to Isabel’s design work. Designing scentscapes. Dreaming scents; why don’t we? Air pollution and its affect on the way scent carries Unexpected or overlooked scents in the garden How aspect affects the way scent travels The faecal smell that sometimes underscores the top notes of flowers Some of Isabel’s favourite scent combinations Combinations that don’t work together Links: Scent Magic by Isabel Bannerman - Pimpernel Press, 2019 Isabel & Julian Bannerman Garden Design www.howgreennursery.co.uk Get in touch: Email podcast@rootsandall.co.uk Website www.rootsandall.co.uk Twitter @rootsandall Instagram @rootsandallpod Help me keep the podcast free & independent! Support me on Patreon Or donate as much or as little as you like at GoFundMe
With thanks to CED Natural Stone, on this episode Peter Donegan speaks with Jilayne Rickards, designer of the CAMFED Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019. To quote CED Stone: The CAMFED garden was just one of the gardens that we were lucky enough to work on. The charity is fantastic and works to help women obtain the education they need in order to prosper. Thank you so much to CAMFED, Jilayne Rickards and Cormac from Conway Landscapes for letting us join in on this fantastic garden! Garden Details: The CAMFED Garden: Giving Girls in Africa A Space To GrowDesigner: Jilayne RickardsContractor: Conway LandscapesMaterials: Red Sandstone Rockery & Sandstone BouldersAwards: Gold MedalFind out more about CAMFED and their amazing work here: https://camfed.org/ Visit our website: https://cedstone.co.uk/ The Sodshow is available every week in iTunes, spotify and all good podcast stores. Spotify Tim Howell. Spotify ! The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
With thanks to CED Natural Stone, on this episode Peter Donegan speaks with Helen Boem, Floral Marquee Manager for The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). From volunteering for RHS shows to her actual job now, her career before as a garden designer and meeting her Mammy at RHS Chelsea to just how much it takes to fill a floral marquee at Chelsea Flower Show, the work that goes in behind the scenes for the growers and nurseries and of course everything else that manages to run through Peters brain. The Sodshow is available every week in iTunes, spotify and all good podcast stores. Spotify Tim Howell. Spotify ! The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
John Everiss’s career is testimony to where deliberately contradicting a sibling can get you. Noticing his creative talent, his sister suggested a career in illustration. So John chose farming. The choice eventually paid off as lured back to more artistic endeavours, the well-rounded outdoor practical skills created the perfect balance for a multi RHS gold-medal-winning Garden Designer.This role, however, does not paint the full picture. John also turns his hand to sculpture, creating pieces imbued with strong narratives, often made in collaboration with charities. These pieces not only connect with people but allow them, in turn, to tell their stories. ‘’Sculpture,’’ he says, ‘’is a terrific tool to tell a powerful story.’’ His recent D-Day 75 garden, complete with ghostly figures struggling through the waves, is the perfect illustration. Installed at 2019’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, John then moved the garden lock, stock and barrel to the cliff top at Arromanches, over-looking Gold Beach. Here, it continues to commemorate those who took part in the Normandy Landings, while giving visitors the chance to pause, reflect and learn.We’ve worked with John on a number of projects for RHS Chelsea and knew there’d be plenty more stories to tell. We chatted to him at his home in Lancashire on a very wet afternoon. Perfect weather to catch up with a hands-on Garden Designer.LinksJohn Everiss Design D-Day Revisited, The D-Day 75 GardenBritish Army video from ArromanchesMeningitis Now Futures GardenMyeloma UK GardenWillow Garden project
Peter Donegan chats with Taina Suonio, designer of The Roots in Finland garden at RHS Chelsea 2019. Whilst Taina's garden was sponsored by the Kyrö Distillery Company, this episode could not have happened without the support of Tim Howell (pictured above) who has for ever been unwavering in his support of this thing I do and, CED Natural Stone who have made this and the entire series of 2019 RHS Chelsea episodes possible and supported Taina's garden. Thank you ! Built by Conquest Creative Spaces, Taina and Peter together chat living away from home, whilst show garden building, that process, the amount of sponsors involved in this case including the Embassy of Finland, London, Roslings Manor Gardens, Finnish-British Chmabers of Commerce, UPM WISA Plywood, Loimann Kivi Ltd, Taimisto Huutokoski Ltd, Ru Runeberg Artist, Creepers Nursery, Sursum Ltd, Kekkitā BVB, Tapio Anttila and Artek. The Sodshow is available every week in iTunes, spotify and all good podcast stores. Spotify Tim Howell. Spotify ! The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
With thanks to CED Natural Stone, on this episode Peter Donegan speaks with Designer Kate Gould and Keith Chapman who made the Greenfingers Charity Gardenat RHS Chelsea 2019. According to The RHS: Even experienced Chelsea designers face unexpected challenges, and for Kate Gould, it was creating a completely accessible garden. “I didn’t think it would, but it’s definitely changed the way I think about garden design,” said Kate, ahead of her appearance at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. “It’s made me appreciate accessibility more – you can’t put a price on being able to go outside and feel the wind on your face and look up at the trees.” Sponsored by Greenfingers, a charity dedicated to supporting children in hospices through the creation of gardens, the Show Garden will be split on two levels, with a lift for access to the top floor. “This is a garden for times you come together as a family,” said Kate, “making memories in a beautiful, outdoor space.” The Sodshow is available every week in iTunes, spotify and all good podcast stores. Spotify Tim Howell. Spotify ! The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
With thanks to CED Natural Stone today Peter Donegan chats with Alistair Bayford. Alistair is a Chartered Landscape Architect and designer of The Family Monsters Garden at RHS Chelsea 2019. Alistair studied at Writtle College achieving a 1st Class Honours degree in Landscape and Garden Design in 2004; later completing his post graduate diploma at the University of Greenwich in 2006; becoming a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute in 2008. His professional career started at Liz Lake Associates in 2004, progressing on to a Project Management role at Lee Valley Regional Park Authority in 2009 overseeing a number of Olympic related projects within Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and the Olympic Fringe. Alistair joined idverde in 2012 as Park Manager for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park responsible for the mobilisation of the 10 year maintenance contract achieving a prestigious BALI Principal Award in 2015. His current role sees him leading professional services and landscape construction throughout London and the South East, specialising in park improvement and public realm projects winning nine BALI Awards in the past six years. Alistair is a current Director of The Parks Alliance, the voice of UK Parks, acting as Vice Chair from 2016-2018.The Family Monsters Garden celebrates 150 years of Family Action supporting families across the country and idverde's 100 years of creating and maintaining landscapes for the benefit of local communities. The garden shows the pressures faced by every family and the journey families take to face these challenges. From financial problems to health and wellbeing issues, and from lack of time together to problems with communication and resolving disputes, the garden represents the range of pressures faced by families in Britain today. The journey to bringing these hidden issues out of the dark and into the open, so that they don’t become overwhelming, can be one of secrecy, shame and isolation, with pressures and progress obscured and hard to resolve. Ultimately their journey in this garden leads to a family space, where all come together to reflect, get their pressures out in the open and gather strength to face them together. The pool of clear water offers reflection and perspective. Through exhibiting this garden Alistair has discussed his own monster, how it impacted him and his young family, and how through sharing his troubles he found ways to overcome them and deal with them. Idverde is Europe’s largest provider of grounds maintenance services and landscape construction projects, with staff operating throughout the UK and France. We offer a holistic range of services to support the creation, maintenance and management of landscapes throughout the UK, working with both public and private sector clients to deliver bespoke solutions for each project’s unique challenges. Family Action is a national charity marking its 150th anniversary in 2019 and is committed to building stronger families by delivering innovative and effective services and support that reaches out to many of the UK’s most vulnerable people. We seek to empower people and communities to address their issues and challenges through practical, financial and emotional help. Contact: The Sodshow is available every week in iTunes, spotify and all good podcast stores. The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
With thanks to CED Natural Stone today Peter Donegan chats with sculptor David Harber. Designed by Andrew Duff, The Savills and David Harber Garden was created on Main Avenue at RHS Chelsea 2019. I had been standing at the Oxford Planters stand chatting with head don Sarah Pierce when all round lovely lady Gillian Goodson walked past. We got chatting about who I was due to and had spoken with, when round the corner walks David. I was more than aware of who he was and his work over the years at Chelsea and though we may have spoken, never had we chatted recorded. If I do submit an entry for the Garden Media Guild awards, this will most probably be it. I'll leave the description there for now. Take a listen and enjoy. And thanks ever so much for listening. web: www.davidharber.co.uk Twitter: @davidharber FB: davidharbergardens The Sodshow is available every week in iTunes, spotify and all good podcast stores. Spotify Tim Howell. Spotify ! The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
With thanks to CED Natural Stone today Peter Donegan chats with garden designer Joe Perkins. Joe designed Beyond the Screen, the Facebook garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019. Joe began as a landscape gardener in 1996 and has lived and studied garden design at the Oxford College of Garden Design, graduating with distinction in 2002. As a garden designer and landscaper Joe has worked for some of the best-known landscape companies. In 2007 he was an integral part of the team who produced the RHS Chelsea Gold and Best in Show garden ‘600 Days with Bradstone’, designed by Sarah Eberle, as well as winning the BALI Grand Award garden in the same year for Hillier Landscapes. In 2009 he joined landscape consultancy and construction firm The Outdoor Room, where he was a director and company manager. During his time at The Outdoor Room, Joe was involved with 15 medal-winning RHS show gardens and 5 national BALI awards and in 2012 he graduated from Greenwich University with an MA in Landscape Architecture. He is a Registered Member of the Society of Garden Designers (MSGD). web: www.joeperkinsdesign.com Twitter: @joeslandscapes Instagram: : @joeperkinsdesign FB: joeperkinsdesign The Sodshow is available every week in iTunes, sotify and all good podcast stores. The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
I meet up with blogger and RHS Chelsea Volunteer Matt Peskett of Grow like Grandad and tour the feature gardens.If you've not listened to the BIG review of RHS Chelsea then head back one episode and give it a listen.
The Biggest and Best review of this years RHS Chelsea Flower Show, coming LIVE from the show, telling you some of my highlights and what you should look out for if you are visiting plus my honest thoughts on the whole show.
This 2019 Graham Bodle will design the Walkers’ Forgotten Quarry Garden at RHS Chelsea 2019. On todays episode Andrew Fisher Tomlin and Peter Donegan with thanks to London College of Garden Design, chat with Graham about roses, conifers, trends and changes and just what it takes working in the industry of such a long period of time and staying fresh and at the top of your game for just so long. Graham qualified and trained at Leeds with a bachelor of Arts degree in garden art and design in 2001. Based in Doncaster at the family business Walkers Nurseries, Graham has been landscaping and designing gardens for the last 16 years. He has exhibited at RHS Tatton Park gaining a gold medal in 2008 and 4 times at RHS Chelsea achieving one silver, two silver-gilt and one gold medal and best in artisan categories. Graham also exhibited at the first international flower show in Istanbul 2016. twitter: @walkersevents facebook: Walkers Nurseries web: www.walkersnurseries.tv This episode is with huge thanks to London College of Garden Design. The Sodshow is available every week in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com More information: London College Garden Design: web: www.lcgd.org.uk twitter: @LCgardendesign fb: TheLondonCollegeofGardenDesign The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
Ed Burnham is the brains behind Burnham Landscaping, based in London. In business since 2011, The Burnham team have built no less than 13 Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) gardens, their most recent being that for former guest Naomi Ferret Cohen at RHS Chelsea 2018. The image above is from 2018 when Ed dropped by a garden I was realising in France and, though Ed and his team are due to build a garden with me at RHS Cardiff, this interview is not about that and very much about him and what he actually does. The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com More info: web: http://burnhamlandscaping.co.uk twitter: @burnhamlandscap instagram: burnhamlandscaping The Sodshow: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
Fibrex is a family run nursery, started by Hazel & Dick Key over half a century ago. The business is still run by family members; Angela works alongside her sister, brother and sister-in-law, as well as other family members, to make the nursery the success it is today. In addition to being respected horticultural experts, they hold two National Collections and continually attain top accolades at flower shows such as RHS Chelsea, Hampton Court, Malvern and Gardeners World Live. The nursery is open to visit, but they also offer an excellent mail order service and you can order plants through their website. Key talking points with Angela were: Growing ivy as a houseplant Ideal growing conditions for ivy indoors Ideal growing conditions for ivy outdoors Different growth habits and the suitability of certain species for certain garden situations Fast and slow growing varieties Pruning Benefits to wildlife Unsuitable situations for ivy Growing ivy in containers If you’d like to view and shop the full range of Ivy that Fibrex Nurseries has to offer, you can visit their website: https://www.fibrex.co.uk Nursery Contact Information: Fibrex Nursery LTD Honeybourne Road Pebworth Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8XP Telephone: 01789 720788 Email: sales@fibrex.co.uk Opening Hours 1 Mar - 31 Aug: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm 1 Sept - 28 Feb: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm 1 Apr - 25 Jun: Sat-Sun 10.30am-4pm Twitter @FibrexNurseries Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Fibrex-Nurseries-Ltd-217275455080317/ Instagram fibrex_nurseries Get in touch; Email podcast@rootsandall.co.uk Website www.rootsandall.co.uk Twitter @rootsandall Instagram rootsandallpod Patreon Link; Help us keep the podcast free & independent! Donate as much or as little as you like at https://www.patreon.com/rootsandall
Gardening in A Changing Climate This is a recording of a panel discussion that took place at a Designers' Day event on 27th November 2018. The sound quality is pretty raw and not up to our excellent standards, as we recorded in a polytunnel in the lashing rain! The topic up for debate was how climate change is affecting the way designers design gardens for clients. Or not, as the case may be! A straw poll at the beginning revealed that in a room full of garden designers and landscapers, about 4 said their work had been influenced by a changing climate. Which is comforting, or frightening, depending on how you look at it... Although the debate was intended to be heard by designers, there are definitely words of wisdom that can be applied in gardens or all shapes and sizes, and by gardeners at all levels. The panel is chaired by Jack Wallington. The designers taking part are your host Sarah Wilson, Emma Page and Nic Howard. The event was held at How Green Nursery in Hever, Kent. How Green Nursery is a trade nursery supplying plants to retailers, landscapers, designers, local authorities and historic gardens. They also supply plants for show gardens, including the RHS Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Shows. Thanks to the guys at the nursery for hosting an informative and thought-provoking event. Further Information The Roots and All website - https://rootsandall.co.uk https://twitter.com/rootsandall https://www.facebook.com/rootsandalluk/ https://www.instagram.com/rootsandallpod/ Email: podcast@rootsandall.co.uk How Green Nursery - 01732 700382 - www.howgreennursery.co.uk Jack Wallington www.jackwallington.com Emma Page www.natureredsigned.co.uk Nic Howard www.we-love-plants.co.uk
River of Flowers is a non-profit eco-social enterprise founded by rewilding strategist and botanist Kathryn Lwin and musician songwriter Peter Lewinson, which works in diverse partnerships to create trails or 'rivers' of wildflowers and wild flowering trees through cities for bees, butterflies and other pollinators. River of Flowers co-designed the Honeycomb Meadow Bee Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018 with Studio SuperNatural in partnership with Urban Bees, which achieved a Silver Medal. With very much thanks to CED Natural Stone, on todays episode, Peter Donegan chats with landscape architects Gabrielle Shay and Kerrie Mckinnon to find out why an just what River of Flowers is. The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com Gabrielle Shay and Kerrie Mckinnon set up Studio SuperNatural after meeting at University studying Landscape Architecture last year. They work collaboratively on public and private landscape design and Landscape Architecture projects in the UK and abroad. Gabrielle worked at Petersham Nurseries for some years before going onto study Landscape Architecture at the University of Greenwich. Gabrielle won a gold medal at the RHS Hampton Court 2015 for her show garden 'African Vision' and co-designed the Honey Comb meadow bee garden Rhs Chelsea flower show 2018 with Kerrie. Kerrie worked as a graphic designer for several years before studying Landscape Architecture, through her passion for plants and the environment. Kerrie now works as a Landscape Architect for a practice in Greenwich as well as collaborating with Gaby on Landscape Architecture projects. Kerrie became a director of River of Flowers in 2017. Much thanks for listening X Further info: Read: CED Stone on River of Flowers Twitter: @RiverofFlowers web: www.riverofflowers.org And also: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
Naomi Ferrett-Cohen is a Sussex based landscape and garden designer whose life-long love of the outdoors and gardening inspires her creativity. She recently won a Silver-Gilt medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the design of the A Life Without Walls garden and she regularly contributes on other show gardens around the UK. Today, Naomi chats with Peter Donegan about this and so much more. With thanks to Giles and the team at CED Natural Stone for making the RHS Chelsea episodes possible. The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com Naomi worked with the HIV collaboration, CHERUB, at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, to help raise awareness about young people living with HIV in the UK and beyond. Naomi’s garden aimed to challenge stigmas and promote the message that it’s possible to live well with HIV, as well as highlighting the search for a cure through dedicated scientific research. It would not have been possible to of created the garden without the help of key suppliers. CED Stone supplied the brilliant CEDEC gravel path and sponsored this Podcast. Further info: Website: www.naomiferrettcohen.com Twitter : @nferrettcohen Insta: naomiferrettcohen And, if you have a moment a rate / review in iTunes would be just fantastic. Much thanks for listening X Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
Butter Wakefield is at this stage, well known to me. It's pretty hard if I'm quite honest not to notice her work and when elegance, style and a class attention to detail meet with the highest standard of garden furntiture in Gaze Burvill to create a garden (nee display, but officially called a trade stand) on Main Avenue Chelsea 2018 for their 25th Anniversary year at the prestigeous Chelsea Flower Show, you know you are going to get something really special. With thanks to the team at CED Natural Stone, on todays episode Peter Donegan sits with Butter to chat about creating what was awarded "5 Stars" together with the much coveted "Best Trade Stand" by the RHS Judges. Subscribe to The Sodshow in iTunes, all good podcast stores and via www.sodshow.com We skip past that and get into what it could have been, designing at the inaugural RHS Chatsworth and life as a young Butter to what charachteristics make the greats, criticism and accepting it or not and of gardens that eye for detail. web: www.butterwakefield.co.uk twitter: @butterwakefield With thanks to the team at CED Natural Stone for organising this one and making the RHS Chelsea episodes possible. If you have a moment, you might tell 'em much thanks for being brilliant. Further thanks Tim Howell for the images. Further info: web: CED Stone facebook: CED Stone Group twitter: @CEDNaturalStone Much thanks for listening X Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
Alec White formerly worked in a garden centre, studied law, became a barrister and, for the last 12 years has grown Peonies and since then has exhibited in the floral pavillion at RHS Chelsea. On todays episode Peter Donegan chats the beast from the east, how did that pasion end becoming the living income, Bronwynne Britt and how we came to chat with each other in the first place and the dream of living the horticultural dream (?) and staying in business. With thanks to Catherine and the team at CED Natural Stone for organising this one and making the RHS Chelsea episodes possible. Subscribe to The Sodshow in iTunes, all good podcast stores and via www.sodshow.com From the best peony plants to buy, the top 5 sellers that you can purchase and old things your granny might have told you about them to the best advice and care, some varieties that might suit in a small garden all the way to those that their flower reminded Peter of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars and a little help from former guest Kate Gould. Further Details: web: www.primrosehallpeonies.co.uk Further info: web: CED Stone facebook: CED Stone Group twitter: @CEDNaturalStone Further information: Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
The last time Peter Donegan spoke with Mark Diacono was 2015. Where does the time go. And honestly don't even answer that question. Anyhoo. At that time, Otter Farm hadn't really got off the ground or, was not yet a structure if that makes better sense. Back to this episode; I'm at Chelsea, in the floral pavillion. Former guest, fellow Arsenal fan and absolute legend The Rob Hardy comes running out and throws his arms around me and when I turn around The Diacono is there. With thanks to Catherine and the team at CED Natural Stone for organising this one and making the RHS Chelsea episodes possible. The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com Sometimes and for the greater we are going our separate ways or, we are at an awards thingymajig, but on this occasion we get chatting and I'm hesitant to pull out the microphone because it doesn't always have to be recorded and friends are allowed to just chat and shoot the breeze, if you will. But like being an Undertones fan and asking yet not asking a girl to dance it crops up in conversation. Ten minutes he says, I got ten. I'll need 30, I reply. 15 says Mark. I'm half way to an Andy Kaufman story here but we settle for something as versus nothing and it ended up as 30. I'm always grateful for peoples time. This one meant a lot. It's a little funny with the microphone there. And we've recorded inside a shepherds hut - which is an odd sensation listening back; but it's good and I hope you enjoy it. And thank you. Thank you for taking the time to listen. Much thanks, always X Peter Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow Further info: web: www.otterfarm.co.uk twitter: @markdiacono facebook: otterfarm Further info: web: CED Stone facebook: CED Stone Group twitter: @CEDNaturalStone
Designed by Jonathan Snow, built by Stewart Landscape Construction and Sponsored by Trailfinders Ltd on this episode of The Sodshow Peter Donegan and Jonathan sit in his garden to chat just how a gentleman who has never show gardened before ended up on main avenue at the greatest flower show in the world. With huge thanks to CED Natural Stone for making the RHS Chelsea episodes possible. From where it all started, the level of detail that went into the creation and the 2 and a half years it took to bring the concept to fruition all the way down to who Jonathan Snow actually is, the dangers (maybe) of non Chelsea standard planting and just how one manages to fit that in to such an exquisite garden. Subscribe to The Sodshow in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com Of note, part way through recording a brass band start playing twice and I and Jonathan get asked by the BBC to move out of shot whilst former guest Frances Tophill is recording her piece for television. Only on The Sodshow could it happen. Further info: web: CED Stone facebook: CED Stone Group twitter: @CEDNaturalStone Much thanks for listening X Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
Martin Towsey is the Estates Gardens Manager of The Bedford Estates, responsible for all horticultural matters on The Bedford Estates across the UK and, is also show producer of the Woburn Abbey Garden Show. On this episode of The Sodshow Peter Donegan talks with Martin and also former guest Stephen Bennett about this years remastered Woburn Abbey Garden Show taking place 23rd/ 24th June 2018, now in its 9th year. The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com Stephen Bennett was for 28 years the Shows Director of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) where he was responsible for the organisation of the RHS Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace Flower Shows and all the other RHS shows during his tenure. Of recent he is a consultant advising on events, exhibitions and horticultural happenings in public parks, private estates and iconic venues, both in the UK and internationally. From BBC Gardeners’ World Live, Hampton Court Palace, Tatton Park and Chelsea he has been responsible for 560 garden shows during his RHS tenure, launching all of them except Chelsea which started many years before he joined the RHS. And now he has emabarked on a new career including Ascot in April and the Woburn Abbey Garden Show in June. The ‘Gardeners’ Garden Show’ attracts around 5,000 visitors and has become an important diary date for gardening enthusiasts. Set just over an hour from London in 42-acres of the Abbey’s beautifully landscaped gardens, the show offers unparalleled access to award-winning exhibitors and nurseries that have been handpicked by Woburn. The displays are complemented by an array of live entertainment, artisan foods, shopping, demonstrations, informative talks and gardening advice, tips and tours. In 2017 Martin Towsey was awarded Horticulture Week Custodian Awards’ top accolade ‘The Custodian Award’ for his work restoring the Humphry Repton landscape and gardens at Woburn Abbey. He is 14 years into a 25 year plan to restore the Abbey Gardens to Repton’s plans as laid out in the famous Red Book (1805) Repton created for Woburn. Further Details: Facebook: Woburn Abbey and Gardens Twitter: @woburngardeners web: www.woburnabbey.co.uk Much thanks for listening, always X Peter Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
Staff writer Alys Hurn chats with garden designer Kate Gould to find out more about her New West End Garden in the new Space to Grow category at RHS Chelsea and how she intends to create a pocket of calm in the heart of London.
Over 2 episodes Peter Donegan and Andrew Fisher Tomlin sit down together to chat just about everything you can think of. From music, being a former RHS Chelsea judge and working with Andrew Wilson and the greats to young people in horticulture, gardens that make you fall in love, not sitting still and things that get on your nerves; in a nutshell. The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com Well known for the creation of gardens and parks in many countries including Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean and across Europe for which he has won many awards. He is a passionate advocate for professional skills training, encouraging young talent and working with many organisations to promote education and careers in horticulture and design. He is a Director of the London College of Garden Design based in the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Widely recognised as one of the leading colleges for training in garden design Andrew leads a unique planting design diploma informed by his horticultural background. Andrew is a Chartered Horticulturist and Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers. Further info: web: www.fishertomlin.com twitter: @fishertomlin fb: FisherTomlin And, if you have a moment a rate / review in iTunes would be just fantastic. Much thanks for listening X Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
Over 2 episodes Peter Donegan and Andrew Fisher Tomlin sit down together to chat just about everything you can think of. From music, being a former RHS Chelsea judge and working with Andrew Wilson and the greats to young people in horticulture, gardens that make you fall in love, not sitting still and things that get on your nerves; in a nutshell. The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com Well known for the creation of gardens and parks in many countries including Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean and across Europe for which he has won many awards. He is a passionate advocate for professional skills training, encouraging young talent and working with many organisations to promote education and careers in horticulture and design. He is a Director of the London College of Garden Design based in the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Widely recognised as one of the leading colleges for training in garden design Andrew leads a unique planting design diploma informed by his horticultural background. Andrew is a Chartered Horticulturist and Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers. Further info: web: www.fishertomlin.com twitter: @fishertomlin fb: FisherTomlin And, if you have a moment a rate / review in iTunes would be just fantastic. Much thanks for listening X Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow
Matt Keightley is an RHS Award-Winning designer; a two-times winner of an RHS Silver-Gilt Medal and the prestigious BBC People’s Award for Best in Show in 2014 & 2015 at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Matt Won three awards at the recent 2017 SGD Awards - the Judge’s Award, Planting Award and Medium Residential Garden. On this episode Matt speaks with Peter Donegan amongst other things, about The Royal Horticultural Society's garden that they selected him to design for RHS Chelsea 2018 - the Feel Good Garden. The Sodshow is available every Friday in Spotify, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com Inspired by the development of a health and wellbeing garden at RHS Wisley, the garden will be a space that puts people at complete ease when looking into it or moving through. An elegant balance of exciting, decisive and restrained planting with innovative stone work, the garden will be a place to relax, drift and quietly contemplate. A garden that emphasises the positive impact of gardening and greenspaces on mental health and emotional wellbeing in an increasingly stressful urbanised world. It will be relocated to an NHS site afterwards where it will be used for patient recovery and therapy. If you have a moment, a rate / review in iTunes would be just fan-tastic. Much thanks for listening Xx Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow Further info: Matt Keightley - web: www.rosebanklandscaping.co.uk Twitter: @matt_keightley RHS - Sponsor: www.rhs.org.uk Twitter: @The_RHS
James Bason has designed and won medal for show gardens at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the Gardening World Cup Japan and the Singapore Garden Festival to name but a few. He is a member of the Society of Garden Designers (SGD) in the UK. The Sodshow is available weekly in Spotify, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com On this episode of the garden podcast Peter Donegan sits down with James Basson to chat pretty much everything from walking the walk and being James Basson to the garden at RHS Chelsea 2017 which, despite winning almost Gold and Best in Show, was compared to a graveyard and took what I can only describe as a battering in the mainstream media. Peter and James talk lonely places, stirring the pot, his first ever garden, people you respect in the industry, empathy, just what the future holds for the business and so much more. He really needs no introduction. Out of respect and more to the point for the gentleman that he is outside of gardens, I had considered writing nothing here; if you get me. I hope you get me. And, if you have a mo, a rate / review in iTunes would be just fan-tastic. Much thanks for listening Xx Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow Further information on James Basson: web: www.scapedesign.com twitter: @BassonJames facebook: scapedesign
James Bason has designed and won medal for show gardens at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the Gardening World Cup Japan and the Singapore Garden Festival to name but a few. He is a member of the Society of Garden Designers (SGD) in the UK. On this episode of the garden podcast Peter Donegan sits down with James Basson to chat pretty much everything from walking the walk and being James Basson to the garden at RHS Chelsea 2017 which, despite winning almost Gold and Best in Show, was compared to a graveyard and took what I can only describe as a battering in the mainstream media. The Sodshow is available weekly in Spotify, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com Peter and James talk lonely places, stirring the pot, his first ever garden, people you respect in the industry, empathy, just what the future holds for the business and so much more. He really needs no introduction. Out of respect and more to the point for the gentleman that he is outside of gardens, I had considered writing nothing here; if you get me. I hope you get me. And, if you have a mo, a rate / review in iTunes would be just fan-tastic. Much thanks for listening Xx Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow Further information on James Basson: web: www.scapedesign.com twitter: @BassonJames facebook: scapedesign
2018 will see designers Tamara Bridge and Kate Savill design their 2nd RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden and on this weeks episode of The Sodshow the duo chat with Peter Donegan about just how that happened, what it means and how they work together. The Sodshow is available weekly in Spotify, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com We go a stage further in chatting the difference between this and the BBC Jo Whiley Scent Garden they created the last time, how the picture formulated very differently all the way back to competing at the RHS Young Designer of The Year competition where they first met. And, if you have a mo, a rate / review in iTunes would be just fan-tastic. Much thanks for listening Xx Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow My thanks to Christopher and the team at Warner Edwards who were just wonderful in making this interview happen. Thank you all really so very much. About Warner Edwards: Warner Edwards are innovative craft distillers and creators of award winning, hand-made artisan gins. Passionate about quality, flavour and authenticity with a core goal to save the world from mediocre gin! From a 200 year old barn on Falls Farm in the picturesque village of Harrington, Northamptonshire, they lovingly distil a range of small batch, fantastically smooth, award winning gins using the farm’s natural spring water, grain spirit and home-grown ingredients. Each batch is small, and every single bottle is handcrafted by them, from the filling to the wax seal and label finishing. About the Warner Edwards Garden at RHS Chelsea 2018: Inspired by the Warner Edwards Distillery, ‘The Warner Edwards Garden’ reflects the surrounding landscape of its home, Falls Farm, Northamptonshire. Terraced gardens, once part of a medieval manor house and now a scheduled monument under English Heritage, sits alongside the natural springs on the farm in Harrington, a village said to be ‘built on rock and water’, which have been reimagined in key design features of the garden. The choice of planting is inspired by the farm’s botanical gardens and hedgerows and showcases many of the natural flavours used in the creation of Warner Edwards’ hand-made artisan gins. Bee friendly plants and a Bee Bole set into old stone walling reflect the farm’s apiary, and two copper seats at the top of the garden have been designed to represent the Warner Edwards’ stills Curiosity and Satisfaction, offering the perfect place to sit and enjoy a G+T after a long day. Further info: Twitter: @Tamara_bridge / @katesavill Instagram: https://twitter.com/KateTamara17 FB: @TamaraBridgeGardenDesigns / @Kate Savill Garden Design And also: FB: @WarnerEdwardsDistillery Twitter: @warner_edwards Instagram: @warneredwards
In 2016, Caitlin McLaughlin won the RHS Young Designer of the Year award; that same November she my guest on The Sodshow. January 2018 and Caitlin is set to design her first garden at RHS Chelsea Flower 2018 and I'm delighted to say, back on this garden podcast. Together Caitlin and Peter Donegan chat just what happened within that short time frame since that garden at RHS Tatton 2018, meeting up with garden sponsor Jill Clarke Design, how that clicked into play on so many levels, who is building the garden and of course so much much more. The Sodshow is available every Friday in Spotify, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow Of the RHS Chelsea garden Caitlin tells me: The garden is a metaphor for everyday life, with everyday positive and negative experiences represented by architectural metal runners that populate the space, rising to become insurmountable objects and plunging to be easily overcome. The garden’s naturalistic planting is a balm to stress and emotional turmoil. A mixture of ferns, grasses and flowering perennials provide a peaceful planting scheme. Dripping water pipes and compact rills are subtly placed to run through the planting and seating areas without dominating the space. Show Links: web: www.thriftlandscapes.co.uk twitter: @ThriftLandscape Jill Clarke Design
Garden designers Adam Woolcott and Jon Smith won Gold Medal and the Peoples Choice award at RHS Chelsea 2017 for The World Horse Welfare Garden. Before that medal was awarded Peter Donegan sat down with Walcott and Smith, at a picnic table no less, to talk this, the garden build, their practice and a long spanning successful career of show garden building. We also talk falling out together - for the right reason, falling in love, the pitfalls and the very highs of RHS Chelsea and just how they are so damn good at what it is they do. The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, all good podcast stores and The Sodshow website. And, if you have a mo, a rate / review in iTunes would be just fan-tastic. Much thanks for listening Xx Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow Built by Conway Landscapes for the 1927 founded World Horse Welfare, this year celebrating their 90th anniversary, the garden was funded by a private donor. More information: web: www.worldhorsewelfare.org web: www.woolcottandsmith.com There is also this saturday the small matter of The Sodshow festive soiree, taking place Saturday 9th, McGrattans Café Bar in Dublin. It'd be great to see you there. X
Part 2 of 2 Stephanie Mahon started out as a journalist in Ireland before moving to Italy, where she discovered a passion for horticulture. She worked on The English Garden magazine for seven years, and now edits the Garden Design Journal, and works freelance as a garden writer for newspapers, magazines and websites across the UK. In 2012, she won the Garden Media Guild Journalist of the Year Award. Together Peter Donegan and Stephanie talk were it all started way back when when she was leaving school, working her way up to becoming Editor with The English Garden magazine to where she is now as Editor of The Garden Design Journal a part of The Society of Garden Designers. While I have you, The Sodshow official merchandise T-shirt's are on sale and, though we don't make any money off them (to keep costs down), do please go buy one. You'll look fantastic in it. www.sodshow.com for more info. A rate review in iTunes will do just fine instead and thanks you so much. We go a stage further and chat Chelsea, The RHS, pitching your articles to magazines, controversy in gardening and The M and G Garden at RHS Chelsea 2017 by James Basson, gardening trends and changes in garden shows and so much more. The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, all good podcast stores and The Sodshow website. Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow If you have a mo, a rate / review in iTunes would be fan-tastic. Much cheers for listening. And thank you. Xx twitter: @hortihack web: www.gardendesignjournal.com
Stephanie Mahon started out as a journalist in Ireland before moving to Italy, where she discovered a passion for horticulture. She worked on The English Garden magazine for seven years, and now edits the Garden Design Journal, and works freelance as a garden writer for newspapers, magazines and websites across the UK. In 2012, she won the Garden Media Guild Journalist of the Year Award. Together Peter Donegan and Stephanie talk were it all started way back when when she was leaving school, working her way up to becoming Editor with The English Garden magazine to where she is now as Editor of The Garden Design Journal a part of The Society of Garden Designers. We go a stage further and chat Chelsea, The RHS, pitching your articles to magazines, controversy in gardening and The M and G Garden at RHS Chelsea 2017 by James Basson, gardening trends and changes in garden shows and so much more. The Sodshow is available every Friday in iTunes, all good podcast stores and The Sodshow website. Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow instagram: sodshow If you have a mo, a rate / review in iTunes would be fan-tastic. Much cheers for listening. And thank you. Xx twitter: @hortihack web: www.gardendesignjournal.com
Peter Donegan talks with Mark Gregory, the most medalled RHS builder, and designer, of gardens. In fact Mark has never not won a RHS Chelsea medal. In total, he holds over 90 RHS Chelsea medals, in excess of 35 of them are Gold, 3 personal Gold's as a designer and 1 silver-gilt on Main Avenue and 150 Gardens for The Royal Horticultural Society over 28 years - which roughly equates to 3 years of his working life on that one site. The Sodshow is available in iTunes, all good podcast stores and The Sodshow website. Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The Sodshow At Chelsea 2017 he built 4 gardens. 2 on Main Avenue and 2 Artisan Gardens. They included the RHS Greening Grey Britain garden for Nigel Dunett, the Yorkshire Forward garden for Tracey Foster; the Seedlip Garden for former guest of The Sodshow Catherine Mac Donald and The Poetry Lovers Garden for Fiona Cadwallader. Mark also has a teaching college with (also) former guest of The Sodshow and Chelsea Gold medal winner Andrew Wilson. He is RHS and Kew trained. We talk inspiring the next generation of horts, inspiring the "younger generation", horticulture in the media and what needs to change and a fixation on ageism. We chat getting old, Marks future in garden building, getting it wrong and just how he started in the industry and a work ethic that stays with him to this day. Show Links: web: www.landformconsultants.co.uk facebook: Landform Twitter: LandformUK
Peter Donegan chats with Manoj Malde, Silver Gilt medal winner at RHS Chelsea 2017. This was his first time to design there. It's worth noting maybe, that this interview was recorded before medals were awarded. Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The Sodshow Inspired by the work of architect Luis Barragan, Beneath a Mexican Sky garden was sponsored by Inland Homes Plc. Together Peter and Manoj chat first time everything at Chelsea, finding a sponsor, being bold, the confidence to go there and walk that walk. The garden build, leaving your partner very far away from the garden build, sanity and the right contractor by your side. Manoj Malde was born in Kenya in 1967 and moved to the UK at the age of four. Although he was raised in the UK, he attributes much of his love of colour to his ethnic background and Indian ancestry. As a graduate of the Master’s programme in fashion design at the Royal College of Art, Manoj’s career has taken him to Italy, Germany, New York, Hong Kong and India. He worked in the fashion industry for 18 years, latterly as creative director. Manoj then studied garden design at the English Gardening School and uses much of his fashion experience within his present career as a landscape designer. Although the materials have changed, his thought process still begins with themes, mood boards, colour palettes and textures. Manoj says; “Designing a planting scheme is like creating a sumptuous print on silk. I’ve gone from Crinolines to Camellias; from haute couture to ‘hort’ couture.” Manoj has created gardens for various private clients as well as property developers. He has worked as a consultant on many projects, given presentations to garden societies and also enjoys writing a gardening blog. His ambition is to expand his garden design career into TV, with the aim of inspiring a passion for gardening in the younger generation and those from ethnic backgrounds. He also plans to develop his design work further into public spaces, hotels, spas and more private gardens in the Mediterranean and further afield. With thanks to Tanya and Rosie at Rose Tinted PR. Twitter: @Manoj_Malde Facebook: CoutureGardens web: www.couturegardens.co.uk
Peter Donegan chats with Gavin McWilliam and Andrew Wilson. Wilson McWilliam designed and built their first Gold medal winning garden on main avenue Chelsea this June 2017. This interview took place before they were awarded this medal. Considering their first gold post three silver gilt medals at RHS Chelsea, it really makes this interview, for me, quite an insight - because I guess the future for the Breaking Ground garden sponsored by Darwin Property Investment Management Ltd in support of Wellington College, was essentially unknown. From their first garden built together, to how the duo work together in their design, to falling in love; horticulture in mind. And from what a gold medal really means, their 2017 garden at RHS Chelsea, the judging process and just why they strive for only the best and the disappointments that may come with and equally the successes. Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The Sodshow Show Links: web : www.wmstudio.co.uk Twitter: @GavinMcWilliam Facebook: Wilson Mcwilliam Studio #RHSChelsea
Peter Donegan chats with garden designer, tv presenter and pretty much one of the finest ladies you may ever have the pleasure to meet, Ann Marie Powell. Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The Sodshow The last time Ann Marie was on The Sodshow Garden Podcast was March 2016, just before she went to RHS Chelsea Flower Show to build The RHS garden there; an accolade greater in horticulture I really don't believe exists. And not only that but post the build, she then presented for the BBC and their coverage of RHS Chelsea 2016. We discuss that, her Gold medal at Hampton, her childhood, her growing up and family life; we also stop along the way to chat what it means to be a little different, unique and maybe a bit special - depending on how you define those words. And in true Sodshow style, the conversation of course strays entirely off course and back again. This as always when meeting Ann Marie, was again as it always is, an absolute honour. Part 2 of this interview airs a little earlier next week - part as I'm at Chelsea, I've a full time job as Donegan Landscaping and The Sodshow Live Show will be going live from Dublin Castle June Bank Holiday Weekend 2017. You may post me a pint of guinness. Any thing else - www.sodshow.com
This month we visit herbalist Alice Bettany and have a swig on some concoctions we create whilst touring her herb site. We hear from Jane Perrone about her new podcast; On the Ledge and we have a chat to Charlotte Harris about her upcoming garden for RHS Chelsea flower show.
On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Kazuyuki Ishihara at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016, Sean Conville of Two Spots Coffee and the wonderful Avril Hogan of Dingle Gin and Distillery. That, alone should win award for being the most pretty jam packed and most varied garden podcast in world history ! But wait..... there's more. Because the very varied, varies a lot more than you might think. Peter chats with Gold medal Chelsea Flower show winner Kazuyuki Ishihara about how he was formerly a moto cross bike rider with Yamaha, the team of 30 people invvolved in his garden build, just why he half self funded this project himself, designing and building 3- -40 gardens per month and his team of around 100 employees. Peter talks to Sean from Two Spots, not about coffee as you might expect but about the excess waste that comes off the bean when it is roasted - known as the chaff - and how that is now being used as dressing in 'flower beds' and as bedding for hens, before ending up on the compost heap. And finally Peter also talks to the wonderful Avril Hogan of Dingle Distillery a little about making gin, but also about how beautiful Dingle is, the collecting of the botanicals for the gin making and working with the seasons to produce one of Ireland's finest refreshments ever. The Sodshow garden podcast.
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The Sodshow Garden Podcast - every Friday - live 3pm - 4pm in iTunes and all good podcast stores. Podcast listen/ subscribe: The SodShow in iTunes The Sodshow in Stitcher – for android users On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with garden designer Catherine MacDonald. Catherine was the designer of The Hartley Botanic Garden on main avenue at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016 which won silver-gilt and is also the designer of The Squires Garden at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2016 which celebrates 80 years of Squires Garden Centres. A very fine and accomplished designer, Catherine works with Landform Consultants. Of note - and it is very worth noting - Landform were involved in 4 Chelsea 2016 show gardens and one trade stand. Also; top Don at Landform Mark Gregory, who judged show gardens Peter Donegan designed and built at Bloom, this year built his 150th show garden at RHS Chelsea (yes, one hundred and fifty). As noted in the interview, my noting of Mark is not to steal any of Catherine's limelight, more I feel it adds to it and to be fair, there's an element of her being Thierry Henry and her boss Arsene Wenger, if you will. On todays show we of course chat Catherine getting married 3 days before the build of her garden at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, her garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, her career to date and of course we vere totally of the point as only The Sodshow can do. Our very special thanks to Rose Tinted PR for her work behind the scenes on this one. Show Links: more info: landformblog.co.uk twitter: @landformUK facebook: Landform Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The Sodshow. #rhschelsea
The Sodshow Garden Podcast - every Friday - live 3pm - 4pm in iTunes and all good podcast stores. Podcast listen/ subscribe: The SodShow in iTunes The Sodshow in Stitcher – for android users This Friday, Peter Donegan chats with Rosemary Hardy. The designer of The Brewin Dolpin Garden - Forever Freefolk, this was Rosie's first show garden, designed and built on main avenue at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016. On this episode of the garden podcast we chat the now 21 consecutive RHS Chelsea gold medals - more than any other person in RHS Chelsea's history in the floral pavillion and just how this very amazing lady started and built a business now sited on 13 acres of Hampshire countryside, growing over 1600 different varieties of herbaceous perennials that is Hardys nursery. Of course and as always Peter goes way off the point - would it be a Sodshow if he didn't ? - but returns to talk about herbaceous plant propagation by division, dangerous (?) decisions in a first show garden design and just how many Rosie's it takes to make a garden podcast. Our very special thanks to Rose Tinted PR for her work behind the scenes on this one. Show Links: more info: www.hardys-plants.co.uk twitter: @Rosyhardy62 facebook: HardyPlants Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The Sodshow. #rhschelsea
The Sodshow airs every Friday live at 3pm on Dublin City FM and is available in iTunes and all good podcast stores around 3.30pm the same day. @sodshow | sodshow.com With very special thanks to The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), on this weeks show Peter Donegan and Brian Greene chat with Tom Harfleet, Show Manager for RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Tom Harfleet was appointed Show Manager for RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2015, bringing with him a wealth of experience from all aspects of the horticultural industry. Tom began his career working in garden centres before moving on to become an established landscaper and has exhibited at four RHS Flower Shows, with his designs have receiving RHS Gold medals at both RHS Chelsea and RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Shows. RHS Chelsea Flower Show 24 – 28 May 2016 Held in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea since 1913, RHS Chelsea is the world’s most prestigious flower show. Nowhere makes gardening more fashionable than Chelsea, with a catwalk of colour and creativity, the brightest new ideas, the latest plant trends and the pinnacle of garden design, this show is one the world wants to see. The RHS on twitter: @The_RHS Tom Harfleet: @Tomharfleet Tickets for all RHS flower shows can be bought at rhs.org.uk/flowershows
This week Peter Donegan chats with RHS Chelsea 2015 silver gilt medal winner, Chelsea and Bloom judge, author and absolute legend Andrew Wilson. Not their first time to meet, Andrews first time chatting on the record was in 2013. Two years later, the lads sit down for a chat and a little catch up and; from another Chelsea silver-gilt to Singapore gold medals, from bloom garden judging to walking the garden at 4 in the morning….. you do not wanna miss this one. As always, live at 3pm or catch it just after in podcast land. Happy Friday. X Our thanks to our radio show sponsors Greensax. And also to the team at Bord Bia and Bloom for being lovely behind the scenes.
Peter Donegan talks to Gary Graham, head honcho of Bloom-In-The-Park. This isn't the first time we've been to Bloom, nor will it be our last. This is a two-part interview and in the first of the series they discuss the childhood of Bloom, which is as Gary describes, "still a baby" compared to the RHS Chelsea. However the affiliation with Bord Bia means that it's far more than just horticulture focussed displays, and he explains this in greater detail. The Sodshow is Ireland’s Best Podcast 2013 and only garden radio show and is brought to you with thanks to the very lovely Greensax.ie
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