Loving Your Garden - Better Gardening Podcast

• Spring Into Action: Gardening Tips with John Stirland & Martin Fish (Pt 1)

  Send us a textThe new gardening year is well underway, and our Loving Your Garden Facebook group is bursting with colourful spring blooms and a real sense of excitement as our gardens awaken from their winter slumber.So, what better time to get stuck into those all-important early-season jobs? To help us on our way, we’ve called on two seasoned pros — our resident horticulturist John Stirland and his long-time friend, RHS judge and fellow horticulturist Martin Fish, who many will remember as John’s TV co-host.In this two-part special, John and Martin share expert advice to set you up for a successful season.Part One dives into:Soil preparationSpring planting essentialsLawncare tips — including scarifying, aerating, top-dressing, overseeding, and feedingPart Two will follow next week — don’t miss it!Now that we have fan mail, please text in some feedback. Also, take advantage of John's fifty-plus years of experience in professional horticulture and send in any gardening questions you may have.To watch the video of our podcast, visit our LYG YouTube channel:https://youtu.be/P_IbqkOzSSYIf you've not yet visited our LYG Facebook site, here's the link: https://bit.ly/3oIzVr9And to sign up for our free subscription newsletter  it's here: http://eepurl.com/iP4Wd2To contact Loving Your Garden, perhaps with questions for John, it's:[email protected]

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• Growing Cut Flowers With Roz Chandler

  Send us a textIf you've resolved to growing more cut flowers in '25 then you'll find Roz Chandler from Field Gate Flowers an interesting guest. Roz talks about starting her cut flower farm 15 years ago almost by mistake and now runs a successful business growing, displaying and teaching floral horticulture. She has some useful tips for starting a cut flower garden and we also get around to discussing peat-free compost including the two brands Roz swears by and how climate change will have a major impact on how we garden (see Chapters for specifics).Now that we have fan mail, please text in some feedback. Also, take advantage of John's fifty-plus years of experience in professional horticulture and send in any gardening questions you may have.To watch the video of our podcast, visit our LYG YouTube channel:https://youtu.be/P_IbqkOzSSYIf you've not yet visited our LYG Facebook site, here's the link: https://bit.ly/3oIzVr9And to sign up for our free subscription newsletter which this month features more of our Winter Plant suggestions, horticulturist Paul Maxey's demonstration of taking hardwood cuttings and a guide to building a hotbox from fresh manure, it's here: http://eepurl.com/iP4Wd2To contact Loving Your Garden, perhaps with questions for John, it's:[email protected]

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• Better Gardening tips in 2025...With Two Badly Disguised Santas

  Send us a textIt's become a thing for multi-award-winning garden designer David Stevens to drop in over Christmas with our resident horticulturist John Stirland over a glass of sherry for a gardening chinwag. The result is always educational as these two stalwarts trade wisdom and a few laughs.  The wisdom includes suggestions for Winter interest in an all-year-round garden, some garden design tips, a discussion about gifts for the gardener who has everything, and the one garden tool that neither of our experts could do without.To watch the video of our podcast, visit our LYG YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/1oGPrvNO1KkNow that we have fan mail, please text in some feedback. Also, take advantage of John's fifty-plus years of experience in professional horticulture and send in any gardening questions you may have.If you've not yet visited our LYG Facebook site, here's the link: https://bit.ly/3oIzVr9And to sign up for our free subscription newsletter which this month features more of our Winter Plant suggestions, horticulturist Paul Maxey's demonstration of taking hardwood cuttings and a guide to building a hotbox from fresh manure, it's here: http://eepurl.com/iP4Wd2To contact Loving Your Garden, perhaps with questions for John, it's:[email protected]

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• Eight Steps To Your Dream Garden With David Stevens

  Send us a text11 Times RHS Chelsea Gold Medallist (and LYG member), David Stevens, has designed a few gardens in his long career (understatement). Enough to earn him 26 RHS medals and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Garden Designers. In this short video (link below), David outlines 8 key steps to consider before embarking on a garden makeover that will save you time, effort, and tears. He finishes by outlining a postal design service* that makes his knowledge and expertise surprisingly accessible.                                                                                                                             *PromoDavid Stevens Website: https://david-stevens.co.uk/David Stevens Email: [email protected] can watch this interview with accompanying images on our YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE7j8D7HCZXg-V6OyRdZxYgNow that we have fan mail, please do text in some feedback. Also, take advantage of John's fifty years plus experience in professional horticulture and send in any gardening questions you may have.If you've not yet visited our LYG Facebook site, here's the link: https://bit.ly/3oIzVr9And to sign up for our free subscription newsletter which this month features a peat-free fact sheet, advice on growing (and getting rid of Bamboo) and John Stirland's demo of taking softwood cuttings (there's still time) it's here: http://eepurl.com/iP4Wd2To contact Loving Your Garden, perhaps with questions for John, it's:[email protected]

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• Is Bamboo REALLY The Plant From Hell?

  Send us a textRecent press reports would have you believe Bamboo is the devil incarnate but does it deserve its bad reputation? While it's certainly true some varieties can be highly destructive, are gardeners right to shun it at all costs?Who better to ask than Tony Churley who's been growing varieties of Bamboo for the best part of forty years? Both John Stirland and I have had bad experiences with Bamboo so we didn't give Tony a free ride. Still, he puts up some strong arguments for the plant, how to buy the right varieties, how to contain it effectively, how to prevent its invasion from a neighbouring garden, and how to get rid of it if you want it gone.  Now that we have fan mail, please do text in some feedback. Also, take advantage of John's fifty years plus experience in professional horticulture and send in any gardening questions you may have.If you've not yet visited our LYG Facebook site, here's the link: https://bit.ly/3oIzVr9Our New YouTube Channel link is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE7j8D7HCZXg-V6OyRdZxYgAnd to sign up for our free subscription newsletter it's here: http://eepurl.com/iP4Wd2To contact Loving Your Garden, perhaps with questions for John, it's:[email protected] & Wanderwise: Female Travel Over 45A travel podcast for women over 45 who want to explore this big beautiful world.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

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