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The future of Chelsea, alternative formats and relocating show gardens
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If you could create your dream garden from pieces of all of your favourite places, and if you could grow any plants in the world, what would you choose? Who would you have as your imaginary head gardener, or garden designer?
In Talking Gardens, the podcast from the team behind Gardens Illustrated, host Stephanie Mahon asks the great and the good of the gardening world to construct their ultimate fantasy growing space.
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- The future of Chelsea, alternative formats and relocating show gardens · 56 dk · Sezon 6 Bölüm 13In our final episode from the show, we ask what is going to happen to RHS Chelsea now Project Giving Back funding is ending, Jack Wallington puts forward ideas for an alternative…
- How to build a Chelsea garden (and get into the show for free) · 54 dk · Sezon 6 Bölüm 12Come behind the scenes with us on today's episode of Talking Chelsea to find out what industry types made of the show this year, what's involved in preparing and building show…
- Planting, the Pavilion… and more plants · 57 dk · Sezon 6 Bölüm 11Today’s episode of Talking Chelsea is dedicated to plants and planting at the show. Discover which style of planting is dominating the gardens and standout plants across the…
- Medals, magic and take home ideas · 1 sa 0 dk · Sezon 6 Bölüm 10Join us at the Chelsea Flower Show today to get the lowdown on all the medals and best in show winners with Lucy Hall, Sarah Eberle on being the most decorated Chelsea designer…
- Gardens, gnomes and Gold medals · 1 sa 14 dk · Sezon 6 Bölüm 9In the first episode of our Chelsea Flower Show miniseries we are coming to you direct from the 2026 show with all the behind the scenes insights, including a hard first look at…
- Midori Shintani · 43 dk · Sezon 6 Bölüm 8Stephanie talks to Midori Shintani about her time as head gardener for one of the world’s most influential modern gardens, the Tokachi Millennium Forest, and her next move…
- Matthew Wilson · 53 dk · Sezon 6 Bölüm 7Garden designer, horticulturist and GQT panellist Matthew Wilson is our guest on this episode, and he’s discussing his favourite gardens, from Kent to California. He reveals the…
- Cath Kidston · 44 dk · Sezon 6 Bölüm 6Our guest this week is the British designer and businesswoman Cath Kidston, whose body care brand C. Atherley celebrates her love of scented pelargoniums. Cath describes the…
- Jamie Butterworth · 45 dk · Sezon 6 Bölüm 5Plantsman, author and TV presenter Jamie Butterworth joins Stephanie this week, tracing his horticultural beginnings from Young Gardener of the Year on TV to working with Monty…
- Matthew Pottage · 48 dk · Sezon 6 Bölüm 4Our guest this week is Matthew Pottage, who became RHS Wisley’s youngest-ever curator aged 29 and is now head of horticulture and landscape strategy at London’s Royal Parks. He…
- Luciano Giubbilei · 1 sa 2 dk · Sezon 6 Bölüm 3Landscape designer Luciano Giubbilei joins host Steph to reveal all about his dream garden. He describes growing up in Italy, his own landscape inspirations, including Villa…
- Pollyanna Wilkinson · 41 dk · Sezon 6 Bölüm 2This week’s guest is the award-winning garden designer Pollyanna Wilkinson. She reveals her ‘uncool’ love of romantic planting and the literary gardens she’s always admired, and…
- Adam Frost · 47 dk · Sezon 6 Bölüm 1Gardener, designer and TV presenter Adam Frost talks to host Stephanie about growing up with two very different gardening grandmothers, the advice Terence Conran once gave him at…
- Talking Gardens is back for Season 6! · 1 dk · Sezon 6Talking Gardens is back this spring with Stephanie Mahon, and all-new brilliant guests from the world of gardening. We’ve got TV presenter Adam Frost singing Steph happy…
- Tom Coward · 47 dk · Sezon 5 Bölüm 8This time, Steph is talking to Tom Coward, head gardener at Gravetye Manor garden in Sussex. Now a luxury hotel, it was once the home of gardener and writer William Robinson, who…
- Alys Fowler · 56 dk · Sezon 5 Bölüm 7Horticulturist, author and garden journalist Alys Fowler joins Steph to discuss her dream garden and her new garden in Wales. She discusses the importance of ‘living with your…
- James Hitchmough · 1 sa 5 dk · Sezon 5 Bölüm 6James Hitchmough, planting maestro and Emeritus Professor of Horticultural Ecology at the University of Sheffield joins Steph to talk about his dream garden, and his own new…
- Jo Thompson · 56 dk · Sezon 5 Bölüm 5Jo Thompson, award-winning garden designer, joins Steph to talk about her fantasy garden. From her love of roses to her penchant for romantic gardens and her love of Italy, where…
- Tom Massey · 59 dk · Sezon 5 Bölüm 4Designer Tom Massey joins Steph to talk about his Chelsea Flower Show garden that includes mycelium walls and AI that makes trees talk. He reveals the gardens and landscapes that…
- Manoj Malde · 47 dk · Sezon 5 Bölüm 3Garden designer Manoj Malde speaks with Steph about his dream garden and his inspirations for it, including Jardin Majorelle in Morocco and Lotusland in California, as well as…







