We started the show as always with George’s gardening question, this week about courgette. We also got a radish update and chatted about what we have been up too.

Our guest tonight was another gardener with a luscious head of hair, he has had 26 years as a landscape gardener, and is now an aspiring Garden Designer and even won a Silver Gilt Medal for his Blooming Border at RHS Malvern Spring show this year. He is currently gardening at a retirement estate with an incredible ethos and a wealth of history.

As ever we had a wonderful rambling chat, which incorporated all of Paul’s journey in horticulture.

We even chatted about how undervalued the industry is and how poorly paid it is for the level of skill and knowledge there is.

Join us again next week for another chat with someone from the world of horticulture. Thanks everyone for watching, listening and joining in 💚

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We start as we always do with George’s gardening question this week about Radish. We all now need to sow some and see if the answer is correct.

Tonight our guest was Jack who is a life long nature lover, a gardener, a designer, a writer who has featured in @gardenersworldmag @guardian @gardens_illustrated and many others, as well as being the author of Wild about Weeds and A Greener Life. I would also add artist on to the list.

We geeked out about compost our favourite topic, and even about how Jamie plans to use goats to stop him having to use weed killer.

What an incredible stat that over 40% of UK gardens are paved over, we definitely need to start reducing that number.

We definitely need to check out the tile whacking in Europe 😂

Thanks everyone for watching and listening join us again next week for another guest from the gardening universe 💚

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We are back after a week off and spring has definitely sprung the light is back in the evening and the bulbs are blooming!

George gave us a gardening question as always and this week it was about Tulips 🌷

Our guest the lovely Alex a career changer who has thrown her self in to being a gardener.

She has designed a Gold medal winning garden @bbcgwlive

Alway interesting to hear peoples journey in to gardening and how often it is a healing experience on the way.

Thanks everyone for listening and watching and joining in with the chat, join us next week same time same place

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Today’s guest is the wonderful Head Gardener at Melbourne Hall gardens in Derby.

It’s was great to hear some of the history of the gardens and some of the exciting newer additions that have been made in the most recent history. We also talk about slugs and pests and the natural order of thing.

David told us about his journey in to gardening from South Africa where it wasn’t a viable career to Pershore college then finally to Melbourne.

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In todays episode of the podcast Marc and Jamie discuss their gardening week then we get our wonder guest in for a garden tour and a good planty chat.

We also use Aileen as a Guinea pig for our new lightening round of questions at the end.

Go over to Instagram to follow Aileen @plants_proseccoandparenting

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This episode was recorded just before Christmas 2023

We discuss our favourite parts of the first 20 episodes of Through The Garden Gate, we keep it really about how Christmas is better when you have young kid. Also how we don’t have Christmas lists ourselves.

Who says you can’t have Christmas in May! There’s only 2 classic episode left after this one then we are only going to be doing 1 episode a week.

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Todays episode we chatted to seaweed farmer Alexander who lives on the Outer Hebrides

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Todays episode is with the self proclaimed Tea magician.

Great to learn more about Alexandra’s garden journey from Moldova to the UK working at the Palm Centre and being a Herbarian at the National History museum.

We shocked her by admitting we have never tried loose leaf tea.

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With the one and only Michael Perry aka @mr_plantgeek recorded in December 2023 Hortpreneur, traveller, Author, Speaker, TV Presenter, Trend setter, Model, Podcaster, Influencer, Man in Pants, Sex Symbol, Car Lover, Plant addict, columnist, Celebrity Gardener, Blogger and Substacker, and many many more!What a pleasure to have Michael’s time in what was our longest ever live! You can get Michael’s book here https://mrplantgeek.com/ and with the code welcome10 he will sign the copy for you. Check out his awesome T-shirts also I have a couple.

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This week we had the pleasure of talking to the effervescent Gemma about her journey in to gardening.

We talked about her awesome portable

cutting garden, made from plastic crates meaning if she had to move houses she can take it all with her.

We also talked about all things floral displays.

We also mention Higgledy Garden an awesome small British seed company that Gemma works for, Marc has also grown lots of their seeds this year and they are fantastic, go and check

them out I recommend Godetia ‘Crown’

Thanks for listening, don’t forget to follow and leave us a review it helps us to grow as I hope we are helping you to!

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We started the show as ever with our question from George, this week it was about Daffodils.

Then we got our guest Chris in to talk all things garden and of course his back story.

I loved hearing about some of the behind the scenes chat about Garden Rescue.

If you haven’t seen Chris’s 2024 Chelsea garden go check it out because it was absolutely stunning and give @sidhillecogardens a follow who he co designed with.

We of course finished with the lightening round what a trio Chris chose to garden with!

Thanks everyone for watching and listening, join us back in 2 weeks time! 💚

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This week we spoke to the brilliant August about her gardening journey from Air Hostess to the Head of Raymond Blancs gardening school.

After technical issues at the start we managed to crack on and have a wonderful chat the evening flew by!

We also discuss Augusts magical garden at home where she has secret doors and a fully kitted out caravan and regularly cooks on an open fire in the garden.

Make sure you follow August @augusts_garden

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Nice to have a fellow full time gardener to talk to this week!

What an incredibly knowledgeable guy Daniel is and the enthusiasm he has for the history of the place that he works is awe inspiring.

This episode was recorded in November 2023

Thank you for listening make sure you give us a follow and rate the episode it helps to get us in the ears of like minded people 👍🏻

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This week we have the wonderful Jen from @life_on_the_lot

Marc’s son George starts the episode, I think that Marc may have some competition as the host.

We speak to Jen about her allotment journey, Strange things buried at her allotment site and JCBs abandoned next door to her plot, her partner being the allotment Chairman and her upcoming appearance at RHS Urban Show.

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In this weeks episode we chat to the lovely Francesca who had recently appeared on a segment of Gardeners World showing people around her garden in Yorkshire.

This episode was recorded at the beginning of November 2023 it was great hearing the behind the scenes details on what happens on a recording for a tv show.

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In today’s episode recorded live on Instagram on Tuesday night we were joined by the amazing Tamsin Westhorpe gardener at Stockton Bury Garden.

Tamsin has had quite the career in horticulture starting working in the parks department, being an interior landscaper, a shop owner, a magazine writer and editor, an RHS judge and now a gardener at her uncles garden.

It was great to have a chat with Tamsin after admiring her work from afar for a number of years and having read both of her books.

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This episode was recorded towards the end of October 2023 we were joined by Arthur to discuss the disgraceful practice of gangs going in to collect chickens from farms but the treatment of the animals during this process is horrendous.

We really need to get away from our reliance on factory farming and get back to sustainable, cruelty free, ethical, local chicken farms.

Toward the end of the episode we were Joined by last week guest Rachel who had got some fabulous news this week.

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Todays guest we have been wanting to get on for a long time, she is probably responsible for all of us doing what we do.

Stef is so encouraging so down to earth no nonsense what you see is what you get, not afraid to show the ugly bit and the fails, doesn’t try to preach just loves to share her knowledge years of growing her own.

If you are part of #gardengram you will have heard of #uglygrid #powerhour #instavillageshow #cofffeeinthegreenhouse all started by Stef.

This year she is stepping out of her comfort zone and doing a Beautiful border at BBC Gardeners World Live bringing together the two very seperate parts of her life gardening and the day job.

Stef also appeared on this year Comic Relief talking about what she does for a living helping vulnerable women.

All in all a fabulous episode chatting to our friend and yours.

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Today we talk to friend of the podcast Rachel

We chat chickens and allotments, how gardening helps your mental health. We also talk which tomato varieties we are growing next year.

This episode was recorded in September last year.

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Sophie is a career changer formally a teacher of primary kids now a teacher of the magical practice of growing your own cut flowers.

Lots of great tips of what seeds to sow now as well as an insight in to Sophie’s garden.

Also in the episode one of Bens chicks hatches during the recording of this episode!

If you don’t already follow Sophie give her a follow @floraldayintheshires

We also mention Flowers from the Farm, where you can find your local British Flowers, link below.

https://www.flowersfromthefarm.co.uk/

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If you love tomatoes you are going to love this episode!

George gave us a garden question to start and it was about willows, as we were creating a living willow tunnel at @wild.inthe.woodscic this weekend which George helped with as well as lots of other fantastic volunteers.

We spoke to Ana about where her love of gardening came from.

She also told us how her daughter waning to make a bit of money selling seeds led to her creating her own heirloom seed shop.

I was fascinated to hear about the Brix meter that measures how sweet a tomato is.

Thanks everyone for watching and contributing join us next week for another guest 💚

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This weeks episode we asked previous guest and our listeners to send in questions for us to answer, a good way to learn a bit more about us and for the audience to get their gardening questions answered.

Marc drops a bombshell by saying that he doesn’t like one of Britain’s favourite gardeners.

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In this episode we talk to part time scientist part time mini small holder and new beagle puppy owner as well as a campervan owner and allotmenteer.

Marc tells the guys about the wonderful new herbal tea he has been drinking from @ivaplants

Ben gets banter from all angles including our guest, and possibly ends up spending the night in his greenhouse.

We also discuss who’s beaches are better Wales or Norfolk

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Todays episode was another episode of technical difficulties as well as getting time zones wrong as our guest was from the USA again.

So we had bonus guests of JJ from the Bearded Growers radio show and Kerry @lottiethyme fill in until we got Laura on finally.

Jamie was in a dark field for this episode and Bens lights flicker on and off as we get further in to the episode.

Great chat with Laura nice to get another unique gardening journey and get an insight to how it is to grow in the USA.

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We’re back after 2 weeks off from recording live!

In todays episode we were joined by a chicken guru @eggsandfluff what Charley doesn’t know about chickens isn’t worth knowing.

We also talked to Ben about his garden that he is doing For Gardeners World Live this year.

There was also lots on innuendos! And lots of laughs

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This weeks episode, we are joined by a guest from the other side of the pond in North Caroline USA.

Amanda loves creating her own compost and the way us Brit’s say the word, she also creates the perfect habitat for the beautiful Monarch Butterfly’s.

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Todays episode is from a rainy Tuesday in September last year, where we toured around Gold Medal winning garden designer of a Beautiful boarder at Gardeners World Live.

The audio and video at the start of the podcast is a bit glitchy but it does sort itself out after 10 minutes or so!

See if you can spot some elements of Adams medal winning garden in his home garden.

Great to chat with Adam about his garden and gardeners world live and see more of his garden. 

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In todays episode we tour the awesome wildlife haven that is Gemma’s garden.

Such an incredible space, with some fantastic wildlife sightings!

If your not already following Gemma go give her a follow on Instagram

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Join us as we explore the fabulous garden that we have all seen in the squares of joy on Instagram, in real time with an exclusive guided tour from the gardener who created it!

Not only is it a beautiful garden it’s

a functional one with areas for her you family and husband to play.

If you don’t follow Sophie give her a follow on Instagram @lookinsidemygarden

Also check out her website for seed collections and more ⬇️

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This week we explore the garden of @kathryn_grows_stuff part of the team organising the @gardengramball but this was before that was even dreamt up!

We put aside out technical gremlins from last week and got our first mystery guest!

Kathryn is all about the Veg growing and has an impressive veg garden.

Kathryn is going to be doing a Snake Bean grow along this year, which should be very exciting!

For tickets to the garden gram ball go to this site for all the info https://gardengram.notion.site

@gardengramball

@plantgrow

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Our latest episode recorded on the 6th February, we were joined by the wonderful Alex Grows Food who has a wonderful following on You Tube.

Alex is an Garden Media Guild award winner in 2023 for his fabulous video about being able to grow your own food whilst doing a full time job.

If you don’t already follow Alex check him out at all of the places below ⬇️

Website address is alexgrowsfood.com youtube.com/@AlexGrowsFood and my @alex.grows.food on Instagram

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We start the episode with George’s gardening question for Marc and Jamie, this week all about Bluebells. Can Jamie make it two wins in a row?

When we recorded the podcast on Tuesday we had lots of technical difficulties but hopefully managed to edit it in to a coherent episode.

It was great to hear all of the behind the scenes gossip about @thetraitorsukofficial

James gave us an exclusive about Gardeners World which was very exciting news.

We obviously got on to the gardening chat eventually, but we know you all wanted to hear lots about the traitors first.

Join us for another episode next week, thanks everyone for watching 💚

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When we recorded this episode we had massive technical issues, Instagram would only let 2 of us in on the live. We struggled on regardless and had some good laughs as usual.

Ben started the episode in his hot tub then showed Marc around his garden before jumping in his car and drove to his allotment, where Jamie joins the live.

The sunsets during this episode plunging Ben and Jamie in to darkness, there are also lots of Top Gear references in this episode, we have Ben touted as gardening’s answer to Top Gear.

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In this episode we take a tour around Jamie’s garden and Award winning veg garden (instavillagefair)

There is also a special appearance from @lottiethyme who designed Jamie’s veg garden.

This episode was recorded live On Instagram on the 8th August 2023

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What an absolute privilege to have Nicola on the podcast, this year she is celebrating 30 years in gardening.

For a career that started working for the future King at Highgrove and has included being a Head Gardener, studying to be a RHS Master of Horticulture. Becoming a mum and being a Horticultural Hustler.

Nikki is also a trustee of @gardenorganic

We also got a few exclusives from bonus guest JJ of @beardedgrowers

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3 episode in a week we are spoiling you, This episode is our most recently recorded episode from this Tuesday 23rd January 2023

Todays guest is a career changer, a rose collector, new build gardener, greenfinger ambassador, plant grow champion, charity walker, his voice has been compared to Alan Titchmarsh’s, former town planner, an Easton walled gardener, autism advocate, my real gardener, garden media guilder, Mini owner, car lover, Keeping up appearancer, Winner of the unofficial garden awards 2023 and a van driver.

If you don’t already follow Chris on on Instagram go give him a follow @groovygardeninguk

Also mentioned in this episode

@greenfingerscharity

@myrealgarden

@gardenmediaguild

@gardengramball

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We start as usual with a garden question from George this week with a space theme after our trip to the space centre in Leicester. He also told us all about his pewter fossil necklace that he made @wild.inthe.woodscic this week.

Stephanie has had a fantastic career in gardening and her third book “The Productive Garden An essential guide to self sufficiency” is available at the end of next month. Make sure you preorder it now from Stephanie’s website.

What Stephanie doesn’t know about growing and preserving isn’t worth knowing.

It was interesting to hear about Stephanie’s love of growing and eating Aubergines.

Thanks everyone for watching and listening, join us next time for another fabulous chat. 💚

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No guest tonight so Marc and Jamie just chatted all things gardening and what they both had been up too.

George gave us our 4th garden question which was about trees.

We talked about snowdrops which are at their peak right now, make sure you get out and check out your local snowdrop displays.

Jamie told us about his new purchases from @monksilvernursery

Marc needs someone to invent an industrial sized shredder so he can chop and drop the large perennial beds at his work garden.

Thanks everyone for joining us watching and listening, join us in 2 weeks time for another live episode 💚

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We started with George’s gardening question can Marc keep up his winning streak or will Jamie get one back?

Fabulous chat with Laura how she went from retail to working full time as a gardener.

Loved all the hellebore chat they are looking amazing right now.

We always like talking to gardeners who want to dispel the myth of gardens going to bed in the winter.

Join us next week for another great guest, same time same place. Thanks everyone for watching and listening 💚

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We start of as always with a little chat with George, he gave Marc and Jamie our second head to head question.

Marc also asked George what he was grateful for today and he said the garden which was lovely.

After a few technical difficulties we got our guest Susan in who is transforming her patients lives with treatment that you would not expect a GP to prescribe.

What an incredible thing to create a garden to connect people and encourage community. It’s definitely the way forward to improve the nations mental and physical health. We definitely need a garden/nature portion a day like fruit and veg.

Thanks everyone for watching and listening join us same place same time next week. 💚

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We are back after our Christmas break.

George is now quizzing me and Jamie each week and we will see who answers the most right at the end of each month. Marc took a 1-0 lead.

We went down memory lane after George question of who the first presenter of Gardeners World was. We talked of our earliest memories in gardening.

We also talked about what we have been up too, and our plans for the year.

Thanks everyone for listening and join us next week for our first guest of 2026 💚

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Join us for 25 questions about gardening and some popular culture questions and a cryptic round.

George started the quiz with 5 questions about his past gardening facts.

If you want to play along the answers are all at the end of the podcast so pause before before we go in to them, we give plenty of warning.

Thanks everyone for watching and listening to us this year we will be back in the new year!

Merry Christmas from Marc and Jamie 💚

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We start as always with George’s garden question, this week about lawn mowers and when they were invented.

Tonight we have a wildlife expert which you would think has nothing to do with gardening but in my opinion the two are very closely linked and the more natural we can make our gardens the better.

It’s interesting to think about what plant you need to atract a certain insect and how specific those insect can be.

If you are ever in the south west and want to have a nature tour with Nick check out his website and follow him on Instagram.

Let’s hope his Birdfoot trefoil attracts the small blue butterflies he want to see on his garden, also keep an eye out for Painted lady butterflies as it’s expected to be a good year for them.

Join us next week for another guest from the world of horticulture! 💚

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Lovely to chat to Kate what an amazing and varied career in horticulture she has had and what stories she has about her time on gardeners world.

It nice to hear someone not get the gardening bug from their grandparents but fall in love in the most unexpected way!

George gave us a garden fact about Poinsettia.

Join us next week for our last episode this year! 💚

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Great to chat to Sam about her love for growing food and her passion to get more and more people to start growing and cooking their own food.

It’s always fab to talk with someone so driven to change the way we do things.

Website: https://www.the-pffa.org/

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

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

Calendar Link: https://pffa.newzenler.com/courses/pffa-calendar-2026

Together We Grow course: https://pffa.newzenler.com/courses/together-we-grow

George gave us a Christmassy garden fact.

Join us next time for another guest from the world of horticulture 💚

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