We're having a controversial sprout conversation, answering a listeners' lily question and talking chinese lantern plants. 

Videos Mentioned: 

Rose Care: https://youtu.be/gaiRPeDhcIc 

Chinese Lantern Plant, Lily Growing Question, Sprout Recipe & Mr Plant Geek Michael Perry Joins Us

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The Pots & Trowels team:
Martin Fish
Jill Fish
Sean Riley

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How to Divide Raspberry Canes, sort yourself a free festive display from garden pruning and Martin chats to Helena Glassup of Chartered Institute of Horticulturalists at the Grow North event. 

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Martin Fish
Jill Fish
Sean Riley

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Podcast produced by the team, edited by Sean, hosted by buzzsprout.com

This week we're joined by Lucy Chamberlain and Saul Walker from the popular Talking Heads gardening podcast to discuss how UK gardens are adapting to changing weather patterns.

Lucy gardens on sandy soil in dry Essex, while Saul works with clay soil in wet Devon - their contrasting experiences offer fascinating insights into regional gardening challenges and opportunities. They share how they're both experimenting with more exotic, tropical-looking plants as our climate shifts.

In This Episode:

• How different UK regions are experiencing climate change and what it means for your garden
• Drought-tolerant edibles: amaranth, tree spinach, globe artichokes and more
• The rise of hardy tropical plants - creating exotic gardens that survive UK winters
• Lucy and Saul's journey creating the Talking Heads podcast (now over 300 episodes!)
• Their work with RHS expert groups on fruit, vegetables and tender ornamentals
• Saul's exciting plans for a national collection of hardy gingers

Listener Questions:

• What to do next with successfully rooted pelargonium cuttings
• How to water houseplants during winter when central heating is on

Seasonal Tips:

• Collecting and using leaf mold as mulch
• Ornamental water storage solutions
• Winterizing your garden: protecting taps, tender plants and repairing lawns

Featured Guests: Lucy Chamberlain - Trained at Writtle and Wisley, head gardener in Essex, RHS Fruit, Vegetable & Herb Expert Group member, author of "Grow Food Anywhere"

Saul Walker - Former National Trust, Kew and RHS gardener, now head gardener at Stoneland's House, Devon, RHS Tender Ornamental Expert Group member

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Sponsors: Plantgrow - creating organic, sustainable compost, mulch and soil conditioners from green electricity by-products in Norfolk.

Videos Mentioned:

Pelargonium Cuttings: https://youtu.be/P-B7UUiV90g 

Secret Garden of Louth: https://youtu.be/QSH_GO96-kQ 

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We've visited the Garden Media Guild to watch Arit Anderson be honoured - and backstage we spoke to the inimitable Tom Allen, self-confessed novice gardener plus actor and comedian on the side! 

Videos Mentioned:

Secret Garden of Louth Video: https://youtu.be/QSH_GO96-kQ 

Grow Stunning Chrysanthemums: https://youtu.be/46mQR8i1UbE 

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The Pots & Trowels team:
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Jill Fish
Sean Riley

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We meet the incoming RHS Harlow Carr garden advisor Katy Merrington, who looks after the Hepworth Wakefield Garden. We are talking renewal pruning, transplanting or moving plants around the garden and it’s almost a Root Stock Special as we have a detailed analysis of what root stocks are & what happens to the leftovers? Plus, we put the pot in Pots & Trowels with a chat about sculpture and ceramics.

VIDEOS MENTIONED:

How to Create an Apple Cordon (Pruning Apple Trees)

https://youtu.be/b29Osis97qA?si=fiQF_yVDvSBTU0zv 

How to Graft Apple and Fruit Trees

https://youtu.be/kQWeQEOJ7eo?si=hVRZZsEvNLJlWA5K 

Renewal Pruning, Root Stock Extravaganza, Now's the Perfect Time to Transplant/Move Plants & Meet New RHS Advisor Katy Merrington

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Sean Riley

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Heaps going on this week on the podcast as we chat to John Grimshaw who is hanging up his RHS Harlow Carr Advisor trowel (and picking up yet another trowel as he landed his Dream Job!) - all the usual weekly advice and listeners' questions answered. 

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The Pots & Trowels team:
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Jill Fish
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We have listeners' questions, hints and tips for your week in the garden, Paula from Floral Media tells all and we clink our glasses together to celebrate our 100th episode of the PT Gardening Podcast!

Videos Mentioned:

Six Superb Autumn Flowering Perennials: https://youtu.be/f5g9f0w8xQw

Autumn/Fall Dahlia Care: https://youtu.be/PmR2MYrOkq4 

How to Prune Gooseberry Bushes: https://youtu.be/JgJp453eS-0 

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Visiting Louth's secret tropical garden, answering questions on perennial geraniums & dahlias and Martin has his hints for the week, including some excellent advice on propagation so you too can get plants for free!

Secret Garden of Louth: facebook.com/thesecretgardenoflouth 

Videos Mentioned:

How to Transplant an Olive Tree: https://youtu.be/eUUwXE6P6l0?si=nScjADGj7MEO8_vz 

Autumn/Fall Dahlia Care: https://youtu.be/PmR2MYrOkq4 

this episode was renamed from "Tropical United Kingdom, Perennial Geraniums & How To Get Plants For Free!"

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Sean Riley

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What's the connection between 'digger' and Alan Titchmarsh? Will succulents live in an unheated greenhouse? How do we manage a bamboo patch? We'll answer all these and more in this week's podcast! Plus all the regular gardening advice and help and a bit of fun thrown in!

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The Pots & Trowels team:
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Gardens, Forests, Castles & Tea feature this week as Martin and Jill take us on a Northumberland road trip! Plus, the team have all your weekly advice and answer some listeners' questions on Fungi infestation & sweet pea sowing

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The Pots & Trowels team:
Martin Fish
Jill Fish
Sean Riley

Find out more about Martin & Jill at martinfish.com
Find out more about Sean at boardie.com

Podcast produced by the team, edited by Sean, hosted by buzzsprout.com