We were delighted to be joined by plant, garden & social historian, author, and TV & Radio presenter Advolly Richmond OBE, FLS for a Good Ol’ Chit-Chat. We talked all sorts from OBEs and blue plaque high jinks, to making pivotal career changes and writing books. We also learned about Advolly’s dream garden with sentimental Edgeworthia chrysanthas, self-cleaning greenhouses, private pebble beaches, gossip under ancient trees, and ungainly hammock entries, - all of course being powered by prosecco and snacks🥂

Some mentions from our guest, links can be found here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/gardens/

• Village Water
• Reaseheath College
• Painswick Rococo Gardens
• Long barn Gardens
• Sissinghurst
• Kew
• Kelmarsh
• Silent Space
• Benmore Botanic Gardens
• Waterperry Gardens
• Lloyd Loom Chairs
• David Austin roses
• Peter Beale roses
• Trevor White roses
• Morlas Plants
• The Accidental Seed Heroes, by Adam Alexander

More Not Just a Garden

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/NotJustaGarden/home

Website: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notjusta_garden/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notjustagarden/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden

A companion podcast for Gardeners’ World viewers, featuring weekly recaps and Chit-Chats with guests & presenters from the programme

Join the community for episode plant lists, discounts, recommendations, blogs, links, photos, & more by subscribing at https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Not Just a Garden Bonus Episode 5 and we explore the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, octopuses, legless starfish, mushroom bandages, collective nouns for animals, the impact of lightning on shiitakes, and we find out which spring garden shows have early-bird tickets available (if you're quick).

On the Quazy Quiz this week we look at a plant Tinder profile and who's their Hate, Date, or Room-mate, and we have another Gardeners' World presenter Who Am I? 🇿🇲🛁📚🧅🥕

Relevant links can be found on our website here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/recaps/

To help make this podcast happen, please visit our Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/notjustagarden

More Not Just a Garden

https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/notjusta_garden/

https://www.facebook.com/notjustagarden/

https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden

A companion podcast for Gardeners’ World viewers, featuring weekly recaps and Chit-Chats with guests & presenters from the programme

Join the community for episode plant lists, discounts, recommendations, blogs, links, photos, & more by subscribing at https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Farida Sober was on our screens for far too short a time back on Gardeners’ World 2024 episode 11, where she showed us her revolutionary and hugely successful seed snails. So we were delighted when she joined us for a Good Ol’ Chit-Chat and we found out all about Vitaly Gennadievich Alifirov tomatoes, the importance of soil health in Farida’s incredibly productive allotment, the great success she’s having with fermented grass for mulching, simplifying gardening when advice can be so over-complicated, and the covert underworld of tomato seed trading🕵🏼‍♂️👀🔎

Some mentions from our guest, links can be found here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/gardens/

• Farida's seed shop
• Farida's eBooks

More Not Just a Garden

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/NotJustaGarden/home

Website: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notjusta_garden/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notjustagarden/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden

A companion podcast for Gardeners’ World viewers, featuring weekly recaps and Chit-Chats with guests & presenters from the programme

Join the community for episode plant lists, discounts, recommendations, blogs, links, photos, & more by subscribing at https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bonus episode 4 of Not Just a Garden and we cover a plethora of topics including; Arit Anderson's exciting plans for 2026, more of the down low on mammalian gestation periods, the incredible work of Franziska Trautman in Louisiana, mind-blowing facts about the volume of bacteria and germs on planet earth, Italy's ban on male chick elimination, zombie ants, sloth myths, and some good news for green turtles and pandas.

In this week's Quazy Quiz, is it a plant name or Sweetpea being a pain? And which Gardeners' World presenter is on Who Am I?💃🏼🎬🌿📚 We also find out about the next compilation episode of Gardeners' World.

Relevant links can be found on our website here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/recaps/

To help make this podcast happen, please visit our Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/notjustagarden

More Not Just a Garden

https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/notjusta_garden/

https://www.facebook.com/notjustagarden/

https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden

A companion podcast for Gardeners’ World viewers, featuring weekly recaps and Chit-Chats with guests & presenters from the programme

Join the community for episode plant lists, discounts, recommendations, blogs, links, photos, & more by subscribing at https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Helleentje and Peter Walker from Wack’s Wicked Plants showed us their beautiful collection of carnivorous plants on Gardeners’ World 2025 episode 28. They join us for a Good Ol’ Chit-Chat and take us on a stroll down memory lane from the UK, to The Netherlands, to Azerbaijan, before settling in Scampston. We also find out about the science of growing melons and chrysanthemums, Capability Brown’s lime tree that sounds like a plane, their national collection of Mexican butterworts, and Uncle Charlie’s oranges.

Some mentions from our guest, links can be found here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/gardens/

• Scampston
• National Collection of Mexican Butterworts
• Cites 

More Not Just a Garden

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/NotJustaGarden/home

Website: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notjusta_garden/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notjustagarden/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden

A companion podcast for Gardeners’ World viewers, featuring weekly recaps and Chit-Chats with guests & presenters from the programme

Join the community for episode plant lists, discounts, recommendations, blogs, links, photos, & more by subscribing at https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The third of our Not Just a Garden Bonus episodes and this week we look at cigarettes with asbestos filters, how London Bridge was once inhabited, which guests were on the latest Gardeners' World compilations episode, drunk Australian bees, how the term "horse power" really came about, the fascinating world of fungi, the efficient mechanics of "Josh" and The Ocean Cleanup, and the varied and unpredictable subject of animal gestation periods.

In the Quazy Quiz we find out about another highly skilled but also dangerous career in science, and Who Am I? looks at another of the Gardeners' World presenters. We also hear where Frances Tophill and Joe Swift can be found this late winter/early spring.

Relevant links can be found on our website here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/recaps/

To help make this podcast happen, please visit our Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/notjustagarden

More Not Just a Garden

https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/notjusta_garden/

https://www.facebook.com/notjustagarden/

https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden

A companion podcast for Gardeners’ World viewers, featuring weekly recaps and Chit-Chats with guests & presenters from the programme

Join the community for episode plant lists, discounts, recommendations, blogs, links, photos, & more by subscribing at https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dwayne Black was on Gardeners’ World 2025 episode 27 showing us his stunning garden packed with lavender paths, grasses and immaculate dahlias. He joins us for A Good Ol’ Chit-Chat and we talk about how Dwayne prep’d for the big day, how the decision was made to add a fountain to the garden, the experience Dwayne has had with social media when it comes to the gardening community, what impact the seasons have on mental health, and a slightly violent technique for opening peonies!

Some mentions from our guest, links can be found here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/gardens/

• All Sorts Youth Charity
• Fountains
• Porter Hardy
• Arundel Castle
• Alitex Greenhouses

More Not Just a Garden

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/NotJustaGarden/home

Website: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notjusta_garden/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notjustagarden/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden

A companion podcast for Gardeners’ World viewers, featuring weekly recaps and Chit-Chats with guests & presenters from the programme

Join the community for episode plant lists, discounts, recommendations, blogs, links, photos, & more by subscribing at https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Another Not Just a Garden Bonus episode and this week we look at which jobs are threatened by AI and which are safest, pursuing careers in arts or sciences or both, which country in the world gets to celebrate the new year first, clever things to do with sunflower stems, a biotechnology company that uses fungi to improve tree growth and their survival rates, some interesting - and funny - gardening books, what slug, snail, cone-snail and squid tongues have in common, clever birds laughing in the face of man-made anti-bird devices, sweating trees in the Amazon, and fish that can produce buckets of slime in an instant.

On this week's Quazy Quiz, Sweetpea debuts her new game, Plant Name or Sweetpea Being a Pain and we have another Gardeners' World presenter Who Am I? We also hear some fantastic news about Advolly Richmond.

Relevant links can be found on our website here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/recaps/

To help make this podcast happen, please visit our Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/notjustagarden

More Not Just a Garden

https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/notjusta_garden/

https://www.facebook.com/notjustagarden/

https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden

A companion podcast for Gardeners’ World viewers, featuring weekly recaps and Chit-Chats with guests & presenters from the programme

Join the community for episode plant lists, discounts, recommendations, blogs, links, photos, & more by subscribing at https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Curator of Entomology Ashleigh Whiffin from National Museums Collection Centre in Edinburgh was on Gardeners' World 2025 episode 26 where she showed us the transformation of surrounding land from lawn to floral diversity. She joins us for a Good Ol' Chit-Chat and we find out about how Ash became curator, the intriguing world of forensic entomology (not necessarily for the faint-hearted☠️), the ingenuity of leafing mining insects, the lesser known migratory habits of marmalade hoverflies, and how bee-flies aren't quite as cute and cuddly as we first thought.

Some mentions from our guest, links can be found here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/gardens/

• National Museums Collection Centre
• Butterfly Conservation website
• Ash's butterfly Get Ready With Me
• Illustrator Ed Harrison
• National Museum of Rural Life
• National Museum of Flight, East Lothian

More Not Just a Garden

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/NotJustaGarden/home

Website: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notjusta_garden/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notjustagarden/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden

A companion podcast for Gardeners’ World viewers, featuring weekly recaps and Chit-Chats with guests & presenters from the programme

Join the community for episode plant lists, discounts, recommendations, blogs, links, photos, & more by subscribing at https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first of our bonus episodes to tide us over until Gardeners' World is back on our screens. This week we discuss the absolutely mind-blowing attributes of the Eastern Emerald Elysia sea-slug, the serious concern with golden oyster mushrooms all over the world, a lesser known but world-changing Chernobyl event, plants that can count, interesting careers in the natural world, and some fun-facts about the Gardeners' World presenters - who is it this week?👀

Relevant links can be found on our website here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/recaps/

To help make this podcast happen, please visit our Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/notjustagarden

More Not Just a Garden

https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/notjusta_garden/

https://www.facebook.com/notjustagarden/

https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden

A companion podcast for Gardeners’ World viewers, featuring weekly recaps and Chit-Chats with guests & presenters from the programme

Join the community for episode plant lists, discounts, recommendations, blogs, links, photos, & more by subscribing at https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.