BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
Listen to gardening inspiration from some of the UK’s most loved and well-respected gardening experts in the award-winning BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine podcast.
Enjoy growing advice throughout the year with our Conversations series. Join Monty Don, Frances Tophill, Adam Frost, Arit Anderson, Carol Klein and more for friendly gardening chat and informative discussion with the magazine team, perfect for everyone who enjoys gardening.
Hear Alan Titchmarsh solve your gardening problems in Ask Alan, find advice for what to do in the garden in our What To Do Now series, and travel the globe with the BBC Gardeners’ World magazine team in Travel Tales: Gardens of the World.
With new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday and bonus episodes every Saturday, subscribe now, wherever you get your podcasts, and never miss an episode. Find out more at GardenersWorld.com/podcast
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Wasps with Prof Seirian Sumner
Today, entomologist and wasp expert Professor Seirian Sumner and Kate Bradbury explore these wonderful, often misunderstood, insects.
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Sowalong – Basil
This time on Sowalong, herb farmer Jekka McVicar, shares her love of raising basil from seed.
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Flies with Dr Erica McAlister
Today, Dr Erica McAlister and Kate Bradbury delve into why they really are the unsung heroes of the planet.
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Sowalong - Valerian withJack Wallington
Today on Sowalong, landscape garden designer and writer Jack Wallington shares his passion for growing valerian.
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Frogs with Jules Howard
Frogs, toads and newts are water-loving garden visitors that anyone can enjoy if you make a pond. Experts Jules Howard and Kate Bradbury geek out in wildlife’s weird world of water.
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Sowalong - Cornflower with Frances Tophill
Today on Sowalong, Gardeners’ World presenter and seed sowing expert Frances Tophill shares her love of cornflower. Frances talks you through sowing and growing this cheery, pollinator-friendly annual.
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Beetles with Richard A. Jones
From ladybirds to chafers and weevils, we uncover beetles – the unsung heroes of the garden, as Kate Bradbury discovers from expert ‘Bugman’ Jones
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Sowalong - Nasturtiums with Dame Prue Leith
Today on Sowalong, chef, passionate gardener and popular Bake Off judge Dame Prue Leith reveals her love for nasturtium
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Hedgehogs with Hugh Warwick
Today in the podcast, GW Magazine Wildlife Editor Kate Bradbury talks to ecologist, author and spokesperson for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, Hugh Warwick, about his passion for hedgehogs.
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Sowalong: Courgettes with Oliver Parsons
Today on Sowalong, Oliver Parsons, sub-editor of Gardeners’ World Magazine, harks back to his childhood with a lifelong love of courgettes, sparked by his Mum’s love of French cooking.
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NEW! Wildlife Series Trailer
Kate Bradbury is delighted to be hosting the brand new Gardeners World Wildlife Series here on the podcast.
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Sowalong: Cosmos with Dame Prue Leith
Today on Sowalong, chef, gardener and formidable Bake Off judge Dame Prue Leith reveals her love for cosmos, a favourite flower in her Cotswolds garden.
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Monty Don on the story of Longmeadow
In this podcast, Monty takes us back to its beginnings and shares how much has changed in the time – even though today’s garden layout remains as he imagined it back in 1992.
55 min
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Sowalong: Purple Sprouting Broccoli with Jack W...
Today on Sowalong, designer, writer and gardener Jack Wallington shares his favourite veg to grow from seed – purple-sprouting broccoli.
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Herbs for healing - with Jekka McVicar
Queen of Herbs’ Jekka McVicar believes it is not just easy to grow herbs all year round but that, with their health-giving properties, herbs are our future.
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Sowalong: Sweetcorn with Frances Tophill
Today on Sowalong, Gardeners’ World presenter and seed sowing expert Frances Tophill guides you through growing sweetcorn from seed.
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Making a new garden - with Dame Prue Leith
Dame Prue Leith is a chef and pioneering businesswoman, creator of a world-leading cookery school, author of so many inspiring recipe books, a prolific novelist, a campaigner, broadcaster
50 min
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Sowalong: Elephant garlic with Marcus Wareing
Marcus Wareing, tells us all about his passion for elephant garlic.
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Getting children into nature - with Michael Mor...
Kevin chats to celebrated children’s writer, Michael Morpurgo to discover if our gardens can fuel children’s creativity and play a part in connecting them with nature.
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Sowalong: Tomatoes with Adam Duxbury
Today on Sowalong, we’re celebrating the delights of sowing and growing tomatoes from seed.
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Summer on the veg plot – with Monty Don
For this food-focused episode, we turn to Monty Don to share his tips for success. He’s also the author, with his wife Sarah, of cookbooks including The Home Cookbook and Fork to Fork.
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Sowalong: Sunflowers with Lily Middleton
This time on Sowalong, BBC GardenersWorld.com’s Content Creator Lily Middleton shares why growing sunflowers from seed, on a balcony in West London, brings her so much joy.
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New ways to garden - with Frances Tophill
This time on the podcast, gardener, author, environmentalist, and Gardeners’ World presenter Frances Tophill, shares her vision of modern gardening.
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Sowalong: Fennel with Monty Don
Today on Sowalong, BBC Gardeners’ World’s Monty Don shares his favourite vegetable to grow from seed – Florence fennel.
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Greener gardening - with Jack Wallington
Our podcast guest Jack Wallington believes that gardening could be a powerful answer, giving us all a way to make a genuine difference in our own gardens
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