Podcast
Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast asks the great and the good of the horticultural world: 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?
Talking Gardens podcast with Arit Anderson
Listen to this episode of Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring Arit Anderson on why she would love a bluebell meadow and the reason she would never allow leaf blowers in her fantasy space.
Talking Gardens podcast with Tasmin Westhorpe
Listen to this episode of Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring Tamsin Westhorpe on her dream garden and why she thinks gardening is vital for mental health.
Talking Gardens podcast with Isabel Bannerman
Listen to this episode of Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring Isabel Bannerman on her dream garden and where she would go in a time machine.
Gardens Illustrated wins podcast and publication of the year at this year's Garden Media Guild Awards
Gardens Illustrated picked up two awards alongside winners including Richard Bloom, Ade Sellars, Val Bourne and Monty Don
Talking Gardens podcast with Arthur Parkinson
Listen to this episode of Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring Arthur Parkinson on his dream of a walled garden with orangery, and all manner of plants and birds.
Talking Gardens podcast with Piet Oudolf
Listen to this episode of Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring Piet Oudolf on the projects that have shaped his career and why he has never had time to dream.
Talking Gardens podcast with Errol Reuben Fernandes
Listen to this episode of Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring Errol Reuben Fernandes on his fantasy garden and why some garden visitors would be banned from his dream space
Talking Gardens podcast with Marian Boswall
Listen to this episode of Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring Marian Boswall on her fantasy garden and why the first important ingredient would be love.
Talking Gardens: Chelsea edition with Tom Massey
Listen to this episode of Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring designer Tom Massey on his Show garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which he's hoping will show how important insects are
Talking Gardens podcast with Nigel Slater
Listen to this episode of Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring Nigel Slater on his fantasy garden and why fairies and soft serve ice-cream would have to be part of it
Piet Oudolf joins latest series of Talking Gardens podcast
Season two of the Gardens Illustrated podcast is launching next week, with guests including Nigel Slater, Arit Anderson, Piet Oudolf and Arthur Parkinson.
Listen | From the archives: Beth Chatto talks to Alan Titchmarsh
In her centenary year, we share a past podcast featuring Alan Titchmarsh talking to Beth Chatto in a public conversation, first aired on her 50th anniversary of being at her iconic Beth Chatto's Gardens
Talking Gardens: Chelsea edition with Harry Holding
Listen to this episode of Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring designer Harry Holding on his garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show in the All About Plants category
Talking Gardens: Chelsea edition with Chris Beardshaw
Listen to this episode of Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring designer Chris Beardshaw on his Show garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and some shocking truths about his first ever Chelsea garden 25 years ago
Talking Gardens: Chelsea edition with Charlotte Harris
Listen to this episode of Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring designer Charlotte Harris on her Show garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which is the first main avenue show garden to focus on accessibility
Talking Gardens: Chelsea edition with Cleve West
Listen to this episode of Talking Gardens, the Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring designer Cleve West on his Show garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show and veganic gardening
Talking Gardens Episode 8: Sarah Price
Listen to episode of 8 of Talking Gardens, the new Gardens Illustrated podcast, with garden designer Sarah Price on her dream garden and her upcoming Chelsea Flower Show garden.
Talking Gardens Episode 7: Charlie Harpur
Listen to episode seven of Talking Gardens, the new Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring Charlie Harpur, head gardener of Knepp Castle's newly rewilded Walled Garden on his dream garden and how gardening saved his life
Talking Gardens episode 6: Jekka McVicar
Listen to episode six of Talking Gardens, the new Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring renowned nurserywoman and herb queen Jekka McVicar, who talks about her dream garden, pioneering in environmental methods and growing plants for the Chelsea Flower Show.
Troy Scott Smith on why they aren't watering at Sissinghurst
The head gardener of Sissinghurst explains why he stopped watering and let the garden go brown during the hottest summer on record in our new podcast
Talking Gardens episode 5: Troy Scott Smith
Listen to episode five of Talking Gardens, the new Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring head gardener Troy Scott Smith talks about his ultimate imaginary garden, drawing inspiration from some of the places he has worked
Talking Gardens episode 4: James Wong
Listen to episode four of Talking Gardens, the new Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring ethnobotanist and self-confessed plant geek James Wong on his dream garden
Talking Gardens episode 3: Tom Stuart-Smith
Listen to episode three of Talking Gardens, the new Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring world-renowned garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith on his dream garden
Talking Gardens episode 2: Alice Vincent
Listen to episode two of Talking Gardens, the new Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring writer and Gardens Illustrated columnist Alice Vincent on her dream garden