Latest Gardencentres Podcast Episodes
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
TV Garden Ninja Lee Burkhill on passing on garden knowledge
Horticulture Week Podcast - January 05, 2024 08:45 - 21 minutesGarden designer Lee Burkhill - better known as the Garden Ninja - is a career changer (from law in an IT setting). After a part-time RHS garden design course (which he thought of as a passtime), couple of competitions and RHS shows later, his career took off, "like being strapped to a rocket! ...
Growing and selling plants with Sue Beesley of Bluebell Cottage Gardens
Horticulture Week Podcast - December 22, 2023 08:00 - 24 minutesSue Beesley is owner of Bluebell Cottage Gardens and nursery in Cheshire. She grows and propagates 700 different perennials at the nursery which she took over in 2007. From an IT background Sue came into horticulture "as a complete amateur" at the age of 45. "I think one of the great things ab...
A career in garden management with Beechgrove's Scott Smith
Horticulture Week Podcast - December 14, 2023 14:19 - 19 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation. 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 multiple and varied career op...
A career in botanical garden management with RBG Edinburgh's Raoul Curtis-Machin
Horticulture Week Podcast - December 08, 2023 09:41 - 18 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation. 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 multiple and varied career op...
Careers in garden retail with Steve Barrow of British Garden Centres
Horticulture Week Podcast - December 01, 2023 08:46 - 12 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...
Careers in garden retail with Liam Beddall of David Austin Roses
Horticulture Week Podcast - November 24, 2023 08:21 - 23 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...
Horticultural education options with Lucy Lewis of Sparsholt College
Horticulture Week Podcast - November 17, 2023 09:51 - 19 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...
Horticultural education with RHS horticultural courses officer Sarah Hale
Horticulture Week Podcast - November 10, 2023 08:30 - 21 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 plant breeding - with Simon Crawford of Burpee
Horticulture Week Podcast - October 19, 2023 14:42 - 17 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation. 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 multiple and varied career op...
A career in plant breeding with Tim Kerley of Kerley & Co
Horticulture Week Podcast - October 19, 2023 13:06 - 17 minutesHortWeek is delighted to present the Cultivate Your Future podcast, in partnership with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation. 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 multiple and varied career op...
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