Horticulture is a home to endless study, innovation and learning and on this episode of the Cultivate Your Future podcast Neville Stein is shining a light on where horticulture meets cutting edge science, because his guest is plant scientist, Dr Madalena Vaz Monteiro.Madalena works for part of the Forestry Commission's research division, and as you’ll hear, a lot of her work revolves around the role that plants and trees can play in combating climate change. She also explains a little about the part of the Forestry Commission that she works for, the Urban Forest Research Group.

For more information about Forest Research visit www.forestresearch.gov.uk and to find out how the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation supports careers in horticulture visit https://colegraveseabrookfoundation.org.uk/