James Alexander-Sinclair and Joe Swift ease into 2026 with a wide-ranging, laugh-out-loud look at what the year ahead holds for gardeners – and for them.

From judging garden shows in Japan and chasing cherry blossom to building kitchen gardens, new garden structures and a suspiciously expensive shelter designed entirely for a cat, they talk travel, home projects and why resolutions don’t really work in gardening (or January).

There’s plenty of chat about the big flower shows too – Chelsea, Hampton Court’s move to Badminton, Sandringham and what it means when shows start touring the country. Along the way they reminisce about formative gardens, design heroes and why we’re still talking about drought, water and climate thirty years on.

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About our hosts

James Alexander-Sinclair is a garden designer, writer and broadcaster. He is an RHS Vice-President and was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal for outstanding contribution to horticulture in 2022. He is the RHS Ambassador for Garden Design and a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers.

Joe Swift is a familiar face on television as a presenter of BBC TV’s Gardeners’ World and other gardening programmes. He is a garden designer, broadcaster, writer and design director of Modular.

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