Latest Arboriculture Podcast Episodes
Building Sparsholt College's Chelsea Flower Show exhibit - with students Chloe, Hayden, Jessica and Joshua
Horticulture Week Podcast - May 17, 2024 09:13 - 10 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation and sponsors MorePeople. At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multi...
Commonwealth War Graves Commission's David Richardson on horticulture and D-Day, CIOH and Kew
Horticulture Week Podcast - May 10, 2024 06:54 - 21 minutesDavid Richardson is director of horticulture at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) and leads a team of almost 850 horticulturists responsible for the maintenance and gardening of more than 2,400 sites across 50 countries. He speaks to HortWeek about how the CWGC will be at the heart ...
Horticulture legend and nature gardening innovator Chris Baines on rewilding, biodiversity, bird feeding and parks
Horticulture Week Podcast - May 03, 2024 07:42 - 30 minutesChris Baines is one of the UK’s leading independent environmentalists and an award-winning writer and broadcaster. A trained horticulturist and landscape architect, he spent some years practising and teaching landscape design but has spent most of his career a professional adviser to Government...
ICL: all about biostimulants in horticulture
Horticulture Week Podcast - April 26, 2024 08:18 - 16 minutesBiostimulants and legislation is the topic for this week's podcast with ICL. ICL's Sam Rivers says there is confusion about what biostimulants are: micro-organisms that when applied to plants stimulate natural processes. They are not replacements for nutrition or IPM but can help overcome issue...
Fargro's Richard Hopkins on drones, sustainability and fairness in the supply chain
Horticulture Week Podcast - April 25, 2024 13:16 - 19 minutesThe second part of this conversation with Fargro's managing director, explores drones, sustainability and fairness in the supply chain. Fargro's interest in drones is part of a number of projects on data-driven decision-making for protected horticulture "to try and give a holistic view for agro...
Careers in the agritech and hortitech industries with Oli Hilbourne of Outfield
Horticulture Week Podcast - April 19, 2024 08:26 - 22 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation and sponsors MorePeople. At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multi...
A career in the agritech and hortitech industries with plant pathologist, Laura Bouvet
Horticulture Week Podcast - April 12, 2024 08:17 - 18 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation and sponsors MorePeople. At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multi...
Fargro's Richard Hopkins on crop protection, peat, water and trade policy
Horticulture Week Podcast - April 05, 2024 09:05 - 19 minutesFargro managing director Richard Hopkins speaks to HortWeek about spring optimism, the upcoming general election and peat, water, border inspections and crop protection. He says growers should talk to policymakers using policy asks from the HTA, AIC and NFU. Key issues are peat, plant health, p...
Careers in the landscape industries with industry heavyweight and APL general manager, Phil Tremayne
Horticulture Week Podcast - March 28, 2024 11:43 - 18 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation and sponsors MorePeople. At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multi...
ICL - all about water quality
Horticulture Week Podcast - March 28, 2024 09:17 - 13 minutesICL's Sam Rivers discusses the key issue of water quality with HortWeek editor Matt Appleby. We discover why water quality is so important and what characteristics you look at to determine water quality. Sam gives vital information on how you determine your water chemical properties and why is...
Best Wood Chips for Fruit Trees with Linda Chalker-Scott
Orchard People - March 27, 2024 01:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsLearn about the best wood mulches for fruit trees with Linda Chalker-Scott, Professor of Horticulture at Washington State University in this episode of the Orchard People radio show and podcast. Linda is the award-winning author of six books including How Plants Work: The Science Behi...
Careers in the landscape industries with APL WorldSkills gold medal-winning landscaper Anna Mcloughlin
Horticulture Week Podcast - March 22, 2024 08:30 - 16 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation and sponsors MorePeople. At a time when horticulture needs to encourage a new wave of young people to come into the industry, this podcast is designed to highlight the multi...
Leading growers Stefano Sogni of Zelari and Kyle Ross of Wyevale Nurseries on the Four Oaks Trade Show 2024
Horticulture Week Podcast - March 12, 2024 10:22 - 17 minutesFour Oaks Trade Show is the UK’s leading international exhibition for the whole of commercial horticulture. From production to point-of-sale, the breadth of exhibits on display is the show’s strength, attracting a broad visitor base. The event takes place on a 23-acre nursery site in Cheshire ...
The future of green jobs with Billy Knowles of the Youth Environmental Service
Horticulture Week Podcast - March 08, 2024 11:00 - 18 minutesThe Youth Environmental Service, which is backed by the National Heritage Lottery Fund, has won backing for a 'national service' for the environment. Dubbed a "green jobs guarantee" for a post-secondary school-age young people. Programme director Billy Knowles explains: "The Youth Environmenta...
Fruit Trees in Fabric Pots with Kevin Espiritu
Orchard People - February 28, 2024 17:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsLearn when, why and how to grow fruit trees in fabric pots. Our show guest on the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Kevin Espiritu of EpicGardening.com. Kevin is the author of the book Grow Bag Gardening: The Revolutionary Way to Grow Bountiful Vegetables, Herbs, Fruit and Flower...
ICL on vine weevil control
Horticulture Week Podcast - February 28, 2024 16:58 - 16 minutesVine Weevil control is one of the biggest issues for many growers and ICL deals with many queries about the pest. In this podcast, ICL's Sam Rivers explains what vine weevil is, what the pest's life cycle is and what plants they feed on. He highlights their effect on heuchera, primula and Portu...
Make Parks Sexy Again! - the joy of parks with Paul Rabbitts
Horticulture Week Podcast - February 23, 2024 09:51 - 30 minutesVeteran, and very proud 'Parkie' Paul Rabbitts (currently working at Norwich City Council) fell into parks work after qualifying as a "really bad" landscape architect. Finding "everything was going down the route of being computer aided design and CAD - that sent a cold shiver down my back" he...
The potential and limitations of Biodiversity Net Gain with landscape architect Alexandra Steed
Horticulture Week Podcast - February 16, 2024 09:21 - 32 minutesThe requirement for developers to implement minimum Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) standards became law on 12 February, and having already worked on projects this week's Horticulture Week Podcast guest already has considerable experience in the field. Although Alexandra Steed was speaking from Van...
Silvija Krajter Ostoic Croatian Forest Social Science
Tree Lady Talks - February 15, 2024 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSilvija discusses her forest social science study on how people engage with green spaces. For more episodes in the Tree Lady Talks Archive click here.
Plant Collection holder Jonathan Sheppard takes his 'hobby' to Chelsea Flower Show
Horticulture Week Podcast - February 09, 2024 09:42 - 25 minutesFormer corporate lobbyist/political adviser Jonathan Shepherd is tentatively "proud to be called a bit of a horticulturist". But horticulturist he very much is. The National Plant Collection holder is a veteran of Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in 2022 and 2023 where he won silver gilt for hi...
Dallas Campbell - Who is out there? Chatting about Science communication and Space!
Tree Lady Talks - February 06, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDallas Campbell, a science communicator and television presenter, discusses his early life, career in television, and fascination with space exploration. He reminisces about past collaborations and the creation of the TV program Britain Beneath Your Feet. Dallas emphasizes the importance of popu...
Jim Mulholland
Tree Lady Talks - February 02, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJim is an ecologist and arboriculturist, specialising in veteran trees and bats. Jim is the director of Bats Research & Training, where he helps professionals train for a bat licence. When he is not running the business he works for the Vincent Wildlife Trust, as a senior bat conservation office...
Jim Mulholland - A year in the life of a bat
Tree Lady Talks - February 02, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJim is an ecologist and arboriculturist, specialising in veteran trees and bats. Jim is the director of Bats Research & Training, where he helps professionals train for a bat licence. When he is not running the business he works for the Vincent Wildlife Trust, as a senior bat conservation office...
Lee Stiles of Lea Valley Growers' Association warns about potential 2024 salad shortages
Horticulture Week Podcast - February 02, 2024 09:46 - 21 minutesLee Stiles, Lea Valley Growers' Association secretary, has been outspoken about the state of the UK protected salads sector, which saw market failure in 2023, with empty supermarket shelves and reduction in UK production. Stiles sees energy, labour and prices as the big three problems facing UK...
Grafting Compatibility with Kevin Folta
Orchard People - January 30, 2024 20:35 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsLearn about grafting compatibility and what kinds of trees can be grafted together by understanding the science of graft unions! Our guest is Dr Kevin Folta, Professor of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida. The host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan...
A life in professional gardening with Alan Mason of the Professional Gardeners Guild
Horticulture Week Podcast - January 26, 2024 10:00 - 25 minutesGarden designer and professional gardener Alan Mason was a founder member of the Professional Gardeners’ Guild. He became chairman 45 years later, taking over from Tony Arnold in September 2022. "I avoided being chairman for as long as possible", he says. " I was vice chairman. I had been treas...
Patrick Worms, Global Agroforestry and hope for the future
Tree Lady Talks - January 26, 2024 00:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week Sharon speaks to Patrick Worms, Senior Science Policy Advisor for Centre for International Forestry research and World Agroforestry. President, IUAF - the International Union of Agroforestry Vice-President, EURAF – the European Agroforestry Federation Trustee, Savanna Institute Sen...
Why horticulture should get on board with the benefits of horticulture therapy with Annabelle Padwick
Horticulture Week Podcast - January 19, 2024 09:50 - 20 minutesAnnabelle Padwick is a professional gardener, well-being practitioner and founder of Life at No.27. Her first experience of horticulture was growing on her allotment in 2015. She was having psychotherapy at the time and "hoping that I could learn some new skills, but also [hoping] it might help...
Professor Lynne Boddy talks Fungi
Tree Lady Talks - January 17, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLynne Boddy is Professor of Fungal Ecology at Cardiff University UK. She has taught and researched into the ecology of fungi associated with trees and wood decomposition for 45 years. Her research focuses on understanding how fungal mycelia behave in the natural world, climate change effects on ...
Confessions of a landscape gardener with Alan Sargent
Horticulture Week Podcast - January 12, 2024 08:59 - 25 minutesLandscape industry veteran of 53 years, there's little Alan Sargent hasn't seen when it comes to landscape and garden projects. And now he's decided to write some of the more curious, humourous and even scandalous ones in his latest book, "Confessions of a Landscape Gardener". With a career spa...