The Gardener Ben Podcast

S5E5 of the @the_gardenerben_podcast is revisited this week for a relaxed and informal conversation with rose-breeding legend Brad Jalbert of @selectroses.

Brad, who was recently inducted into the @americanrosesociety Rose Breeders Hall of Fame, is just the second Canadian ever to have been awarded this incredibly prestigious accolade!

Brad is a rose retailer and lifelong rose hybridiser, and many of you may have seen me in front of some of his absolutely beautiful creations during the review season of 2026.

Brad joins me to once again talk everything roses and to share his wonderful news.

The Gardener Ben Podcast is proudly brought to you in association with Peter Beales Roses, winner of 31 Chelsea Gold Medals and creating timeless roses since 1968. Go online and shop at www.peterbealesroses.com, and make sure that you’re following along on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube.

The Gardener Ben Podcast is edited by @my_home_is_my_altar

Next week, the podcast heads to Bristol, and I get to speak to an award-winning independent business, @sproutsofbristol, who have recently celebrated their sixth birthday. So, catch me again next week, and until then, happy gardening!

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S5 E4 of @the_gardenerben_podcast is available for you to listen to now on YouTube Spotify Amazon and Apple Music

This week I have the pleasure in bringing to you a conversation with Dan from @dansplantsuk who I’ve had the pleasure in bumping into several times during the show season of 2026 his captivating use of colour form and texture really inspired me to bring you this conversation and I hope that once you’ve listened to the episode you head across his channels and show his account some love

The Gardener Ben Podcast is brought to you proudly in association with Peter Beales Roses winner of 31 Chelsea gold medals and creating timeless roses since 1968 go online and shop at www.peterbealesroses.com

The Gardener Ben podcast is edited by @my_home_is_my_altar

next week I have the pleasure in welcoming back to the Podcast Brad from @selectroses we have so much to talk about and lots to share with you so I hope you join us again next week

Until then, happy gardening

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S5 E3 of @the_gardenerben_podcast is available for you to listen to now, featuring a wonderful conversation with award-winning garden designer, TV presenter, author and RHS ambassador @manoj_malde_garden_design.

Who I bumped into at Chelsea 2026. Together, we formed a plan to bring you this lovely conversation during our chat. He shares with us how he approaches design, building meaningful relationships with his clients, and walks us through his process, and extends the offer of help to other, less experienced designers on their road to designing and building show gardens at the world-famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

The Gardener Ben Podcast is brought to you proudly in association with Peter Beales Roses, winner of 31 Chelsea Gold Medals and creating timeless roses since 1968.

And is edited by @my_home_is_my_altar.

Next week, I’m joined by Dan @dansplantsuk, a real up-and-coming star of the horticultural world who’s making a real name for himself up and down the country with his beautiful colour combinations and planting schemes, and has won multiple RHS awards over the last few years.

So tune in again next week on Spotify, Apple, Amazon and, of course, my YouTube channel.

Until next week, happy gardening!

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Series 5 and episode 2 of @the_gardenerben_podcast podcast features a conversation with Jodie and Lorraine, fondly known as the Mushroom Sisters of @caleybrothers.

I have had the pleasure of bumping into them several times during the 2026 show season. Their simply jaw-dropping displays of their beautiful homegrown mushroom kits are enough to stop you in your tracks and make your mouth water. Hugely passionate about the food that they grow and eat, they supply home-growing mushroom kits, have written a book called Project Mushroom, and have unbelievably created a mushroom-based gin.

I hope that you enjoy the conversation and feel inspired to grow mushrooms of your own at home, as Mark and I have. Mainland UK customers can go online and get 15% off when ordering using the code MUSHROOMBEN. Why not give it a go yourself?

The Gardener Ben Podcast is brought to you proudly in association with @peterbealesroses, winner of 31 Chelsea Gold Medals and creating timeless roses since 1968. Go online and shop at www.peterbealesroses.com.

The Gardener Ben Podcast is edited by @my_home_is_my_altar.

Tune in again next week for an informal conversation with award-winning garden designer, TV presenter, writer and RHS ambassador @manoj_malde_garden_design.

Until next week, happy gardening!

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The Gardener Ben Podcast returns for season five and episode one for a very special episode featuring the Reverend Canon Dr Tess Lawton, Canon Missioner of @winchestercathedral.

For a conversation around the Wild Festival of Flowers and Nature, hosted by Winchester Cathedral from the 15th to the 19th of September, the event sees floral installations packed into this incredibly impressive, humbling and beautiful space, with themes spiralling around biodiversity, well-being, sustainability, climate, creativity and hope.

During the event, the outside will be very much brought in to the heart of the cathedral, with multiple floral installations, hands-on workshops and unexpected performances. You can get the tickets for the Wild Festival of Flowers and Nature directly from Winchester Cathedral’s website and via their social media channels.

The Gardener Ben Podcast is brought to you proudly in association with Peter Beales Roses.

Winner of 31 Chelsea Gold Medals and creating timeless roses since 1968, go online and shop at www.peterbealesroses.com and make sure that you’re following along on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.

Next week, I’m joined by Jodie and Lorraine from @caleybrothers, multiple RHS medal winners and self-confessed mushroom fanatics, to talk about their exceptionally easy home-growing mushroom kits, their RHS-endorsed book and mushroom gin, of all things.

So join me again next week and, until then, happy gardening.

S4E9 of The Gardener Ben Podcast is streaming now.

This week is a very special episode, not featuring very much of me. In fact, the episode has been brought together by some of you who visited the garden during our open weekend a few weeks ago.

The episode has been recorded by my husband, Mark, and captures some of your thoughts and impressions of the garden here at North Lodge, featuring:

And others.

The podcast will be taking a short break but will be back with you on Monday, 6th July.

The Gardener Ben Podcast is proudly brought to you in association with Peter Beales Roses, winner of 31 Chelsea Gold Medals and creators of timeless roses since 1968. Go online and shop at www.peterbealesroses.com, and make sure you’re following along on Instagram and TikTok.

The podcast is edited by @my_home_is_my_altar.

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S4E8 of The Gardener Ben Podcast is streaming now.

On this week’s episode, I talk you through deadheading your roses and how to deal with pest and disease problems after the recent huge amount of cold and wet weather we’ve had here in the UK.

It also features a personal chat with @hoover_who_better, who, after the sad loss of his mother Joan, decided to mark her passing and celebrate her life by naming a brand-new rose after her.

Launched at the Chelsea Flower Show, the rose has recently gone through a small and intimate naming ceremony at the @peterbealesroses show gardens in Attleborough. I wanted to catch up with Dave and ask him why he chose his particular rose and what drew him to it.

This beautiful new variety will be going through my personal growing review process here at North Lodge over the next 12 months, and I’ll have the pleasure of bringing you my first impressions of this very pretty and very fragrant rose over the next few weeks. ‘Joan Darwent’ is available for you to pre-order for bare-root season now directly from @peterbealesroses.

Next week, after our open garden event, we will be bringing you an open garden special. Having welcomed simply hundreds of you through the gate to the North Lodge Cottage Garden, my husband Mark thought it would be a really lovely idea to capture some of your thoughts and impressions as you left the garden space and ask you what you were taking away from our garden to maybe recreate or change in your own.

The Gardener Ben Podcast is brought to you proudly in association with Peter Beales Roses, winner of 31 Chelsea Gold Medals and creating timeless roses since 1968. Go online and shop at www.peterbealesroses.com, and make sure that you’re following along on Instagram and TikTok.

The Gardener Ben Podcast is edited by @my_home_is_my_altar.

Until next week, happy gardening.

S4E7 of the Gardener Ben podcast is streaming now

This week I have the absolute pleasure in bringing you a conversation with husband and wife gardening duo Bryony and Jonathan from @dakicgardendesign.

After the huge success at BBC Gardeners’ Spring Fair in Hampshire in 2025, this year they’re undertaking a massive project with a huge exciting garden installation at BBC Gardeners’ World Live, which takes place between the 18th and 21st of June.

Their design is packed full of tropical foliage, texture and bold colours, and I’ve been following along closely on social media to see how they’re getting on ahead of the show.

All three of us are neuro spicy, so to say that I enjoyed our conversation is an understatement. Finding myself on a call with two other like-minded people was an absolute pleasure, so I hope that you listen to the conversation and enjoy it just as much as I did.

The Gardener Ben Podcast is brought to you proudly in association with Peter Beales Roses, winner of 31 Chelsea gold medals and creating timeless roses since 1968. Go online and shop at www.peterbealesroses.com and make sure that you’re following along on Instagram and on TikTok.

Ahead of the @peterbealesroses rose festival, which takes place at their show garden in Norfolk between the 20th and 21st of June next week, I am joined by Dave @hoover_who_better, who after the sad loss of his mother decided to commemorate her life by naming a Peter Beales Rose after her. ‘Joan Derwent’ was launched at the Chelsea Flower Show and will have an official name day very soon at Peter Beales. Dave joins me next week on the podcast, so tune in then to find out more.

The Gardener Ben podcast is edited by @my_home_is_my_altar.

Until then, happy gardening.

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This week on The Gardner Ben Podcast, you will have to excuse my slightly hoarse and snotty tones, having had the garden here at North Lodge open to the public over the weekend. I’ve spoken to quite literally hundreds of people and wanted to extend my personal thanks to absolutely everybody who made the trip out to support our local good causes and look around the garden.

On The Gardner Ben Podcast this week, I have the pleasure of bringing you a conversation with Thomas and Bailey from @, who supply cut flower farmers and home gardeners with cut flower plug plants. It’s an account I’ve been following for some time on Instagram, and I really hope that you enjoy our conversation.

The Gardner Ben Podcast is brought to you in association with Peter Beales Roses, winner of 31 Chelsea Gold Medals and creating timeless roses since 1968. Go online and shop at www.peterbealesroses.com

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Next week I’m joined by my husband-and-wife garden designer and construction duo Bryony and Jonathan from @, who are making their final preparations for BBC Gardeners’ World Live from the 18th to the 21st of June. They join me to tell me all about their new design concept and everything that’s going on behind the scenes ahead of the show.

Three autistic gardeners on one call — what could possibly go wrong? Haha, so I hope you join me again next week. Until then, happy gardening.

S4E5 of The Gardener Ben Podcast has lots of details about the new plants launched at the Chelsea Flower Show 2026 and features Kate @themessyallotmenteer, who from the 18th to the 21st of June can be found exhibiting her brand-new garden concept at BBC Gardeners’ World Live.

Kate joined me for a relaxed conversation about the garden just a few weeks ago, and I really hope that you enjoy hearing all about it.

The Gardener Ben Podcast is proudly brought to you in association with @peterbealesroses, winner of 31 Chelsea Gold Medals and creators of timeless roses since 1968. Go online and shop at www.peterbealesroses.com.

The podcast is edited by @my_home_is_my_altar.

Next week, I’m joined by Bailey and Thomas from @farmerbaileyplugs, so until then, happy gardening.

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