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Gardens Illustrated editor Juliet Roberts chats with designers Dan Pearson, Jinny Blom and Andrew Wilson to find out what caught their eye at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2010.

Recorded in autumn 2009, garden journalist and broadcaster Peter Seabrook talks to Tim Richardson and Noel Kingsbury about his enduring passion for horticulture and plants in particular.

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Gardens Illustrated editor Juliet Roberts talks to garden design experts about their reaction to the 2009 show.

Our usual monthly podcasts are currently postponed, but we still have columnist Frank Ronan reading his Writer's Plot. In March he is driven to distraction by the winds that sweep across his hilltop garden.

Gardens Illustrated presents Penelope Hobhouse, one of the three remarkable women featured in our Garden Heroines Series (see issue 147)

With spring in the air, we indulge in the scent of flowers as writer Caroline Beck travels to the rose fields of Iran to give us a wonderfully evocative report that perfectly complements her feature in the magazine. Columnist Frank Ronan reads his Writer’s Plot and, in a welcome return to gardening, considers that this – quite literally – is how he would like to end his days.

The internationally renowned garden designer, writer and Gardens Illustrated contributing editor, Dan Pearson, talks about some of the projects undertaken by his studio, including one of his early designs at Home Farm in Northamptonshire and the ongoing Millennium Forest project in Japan (more details of which can be found in the January 2009 issue of Gardens Illustrated).

Senior lecturer in the Dept of Landscape at the University of Sheffield, Nigel has written two books: Rain Gardens and Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls. He believes that sustainable must be aesthetic and also make sense financially. He talks about rain gardens, using design and planting to capture and utilise rain water - avoiding storm run off and floods. You'll be tempted to disconnect your drainpipes.

This month we remind garden designers of the 12 January deadline for entries to the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show Conceptual Gardens section and editor Juliet Roberts talks to Tim Richardson to find out more about what the judges might be looking for. We've also news of an extra podcast on sustainable gardening and an interview with gardening charity Thrive about the recent awards to blind gardeners. Finally, columnist Frank Ronan considers his RHS membership.

Not a full podcast this month – more an introduction to our extra podcasts available from the ‘Other Events’ section. But we do have columnist Frank Ronan with his comment for October. This month he turns his thoughts to the search for appropriate attire when working in the garden.

Swedish landscape architect Monika Gora is best known for her temporary exhibits within existing landscapes in which she aims to transform the relationship between landscape and buildings. She speaks on 'Inventing Places and Exploring by Doing'. www.gora.se

Landscape designer and artist Andy Cao and landscape designer Xavier Perrot of Cao Perrot Studio in Los Angeles, New York and Paris, presented 'A place for dreaming - the beauty of imperfection'. In this recording Andy Cao talks through projects to describe their work as 'a blending of landscape and art'.
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Eelco Hooftman of Edinburgh-based landscape architects GROSS. MAX talks on the 'Art of the Artifact or Cult of the Cultivar'. The studio has undertaken many project throughout Europe earning a reputation for it contextual approach to urban spaces. 
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Fergus Garrett, head gardener at Great Dixter in East Sussex, talks about the dahlia trials at Wisley. He comments on some of the findings of the trials and which are his personal favourites.

This month we hear from photographer Nic Barlow, who has pursued a life-long passion to record in pictures some of the most notable follies and grottoes of Europe. And columnist Frank Ronan introduces us to Mrs Trug.

This month Tony Kirkham, head of arboriculture at Kew, shows us round the world-famous botanical garden's latest attraction: the exciting new Rhizotron and Xstrata Treetop Walkway. We also talk to salad-growing expert Charles Dowding about his new book Salad Leaves for All Seasons, and regular columnist Frank Ronan encourages us to savour 'growing' our gardens rather than buying them 'ready-made'.

Sir Roy Strong, who created his garden The Laskett together with his late wife, and Fergus Garrett, head gardener at Great Dixter in Sussex (home to the late Christopher Lloyd) talk about their experiences of gardening with a legacy.

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Inspiration for spring with co-owner of nursery Secret Seeds, John Langston, giving tips on successful seed sowing. And you can start with your salad seeds given free with the March issue. Then we talk to the head gardener at Hever Castle in Sussex to find out more about the garden's connection with the recent release of the film The Other Boleyn Girl. And our columnist Frank Ronan gives his own sound prediction for the weather this year.

Highlights of the January issue plus tales from daring plant hunters.There's also an interview with author Tim Richardson, flagging up the series of discussions he is hosting together with Noel Kingsbury at the Museum of Garden History. He talks about the recent event with landscape designer Kim Wilkie and you can hear his talk by downloading the exclusive podcast below – see Exclusive Audio Content. Finally there's columnist Frank Ronan's comments on the glories of composting.

Forester Geoff Sinclair discusses the campaign to encourage the use of native-grown hazel as plant supports, instead of imported bamboo canes. Following the publication of the late Christopher Lloyd’s last book Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners, Great Dixter’s head gardener Fergus Garrett talks about the exotic garden they created together. Finally, columnist Frank Ronan reads his November column – a feisty response to the work of nomenclature experts.