BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
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Listen to gardening inspiration from some of the UK’s most loved and well-respected gardening experts in the award-winning BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine podcast. Enjoy growing advice throughout the year with our Conversations series. Join Monty Don, Frances Tophill, Adam Frost, Arit Anderson, Carol Klein and more for friendly gardening chat and informative discussion with the magazine team, perfect for everyone who enjoys gardening. Hear Alan Titchmarsh solve your gardening problems in Ask Alan, find advice for what to do in the garden in our What To Do Now series, and travel the globe with the BBC Gardeners’ World magazine team in Travel Tales: Ga...
Episodes(40 episodes)
S25E9 - Bird Watching with Nadeem Perera - Seagulls
A big brown raptor with broad wings and a mewing call that echoes across entire landscapes. Powerful. Soaring. Effortlessly dominant in the air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Jan 24, 2026Duration: 10:07
S25E8 - Overcome burnout through gardening and food, with Kathy Slack
The world we live in can be fast paced, high-pressured and full of deadlines. The constant hustle and stress can take its toll and if we’re not careful it can lead to exhaustion and disconnection with the life we’ve worked so hard to build. Award winning food writer and author Kathy Slack overcame burnout to embrace a slower, more intentional way of living through growing her own food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Jan 22, 2026Duration: 46:53
S25E7 - Release stress through stargazing, with Dr Mark Westmoquette
Green spaces, blue spaces, but what about black spaces? Discover how our night's sky can help to feel grounded and release the stresses of everyday life. Astrophysicist and mindful stargazing expert Dr Mark Westmoquette encourages us all to pause, notice and connect to our dark skies for wellbeing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Jan 20, 2026Duration: 41:02
S25E6 - Bird Watching with Nadeem Perera - Carrion Crow
A glossy black mastermind with an intense knowing stare. Moves slow when it wants to think and fast when it wants to act. Always scanning always learning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Jan 17, 2026Duration: 10:40
S25E5 - Beat cold and flu season with plants, with Dr Kim Walker
Medical herbalist Kim Walker reveals how plants can be harnessed to tackle coughs, colds and provide basic first aid. She also shares herbal remedies for anxiety and depression, which you can make at home, using plants found from your garden or foraged on walks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Jan 15, 2026Duration: 48:08
S25E4 - Improve your sleep, with Dr Christine Blume
Explore the fascinating connection between our gardens, natural light, and the quality of our sleep with leading sleep scientist Dr. Christine Blume. Based at the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel in Switzerland, Christine's groundbreaking research explores how the natural world around us - from daylight to ambient temperature - affects our circadian rhythms and sleep patterns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Jan 13, 2026Duration: 33:01
S25E3 - Bird Watching with Nadeem Perera - Pigeon
The classic city bird. Chest puffed. Neck shimmering like slick oil on water. Moving through streets like a long term resident who knows every shortcut and has no interest in leaving. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Jan 10, 2026Duration: 8:05
S25E2 - Control stress using birdsong, with Dr Natalia Zielonka
Gardens and landscapes can deliver a wealth of shared benefits to wildlife and people but when was the last time you paused to consider the effect that nature-generated sound is having as part of that? Dr Natalia Zielonka has been researching just that, especially the impact of birdsong and how it can actively boost positivity and combat stress. RSPB Great British Bird Watch tie in? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Jan 8, 2026Duration: 46:55
S25E1 - Adam Frost on how to find the magic in your garden
Adam discusses how the feel of a garden is as important as how it looks and the strong connection we can have to plants. How scent can aid health and wellbeing and the importance of soil health for our gut health and that creating a garden is beneficial for our health and wellbeing, as well as the health and wellbeing of our planet and wildlife. Adam shares that gardens should be about moments, taking the time to enjoy being in the garden, and finding the magic of being in that space. Learn more about your...
Published: Jan 6, 2026Duration: 27:01
Bird Watching with Nadeem Perera - Trailer
This series is a love letter to the underloved the misunderstood and the birds humans get wrong every single day. These are not the glamorous documentary species filmed on the far side of the planet. These are the birds you see on estates rooftops school playgrounds seaside towns motorway edges and scruffy riverbanks. The everyday birds people overlook complain about or call pests. But these species are the ones that tell the real story of how wildlife and people live together. Discover more in a new podcast series of Bird Watching with Nadeem Perera, every Saturday in January.<...
Published: Jan 3, 2026Duration: 3:34
Wellness Series Trailer
Give your mental and physical health a boost this January and February with a new Wellness podcast series from BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Jan 1, 2026Duration: 3:30
S24E25 - In Conversations at Kew with Frances Tophill and Adam Frost
Recorded live in September at Kew Gardens, join Nicki Chapman as she talks all things gardening, and more, with Adam Frost and Frances Tophill. Discussing their love of gardening, there's practical advice and gardening confessions too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Dec 30, 2025Duration: 54:18
S24E24 - What To Do Now - Houseplants To The Rescue
When there’s hardly any green outside and it’s too early to start sowing seeds and growing plants, why not look to the refreshing shape, colour and stature of house plants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Dec 27, 2025Duration: 7:36
S24E23 - Behind the scenes at RHS Wisley Herbarium, with Yvette Harvey
How can a living library conserve and preserve gardening history and shape our understanding of nature? Step inside the quiet and fascinating world of the Herbarium at RHS Wisley to uncover a combination of beauty and science pressed between thousands of pages, along with ancient flowers, dried leaves and stories of where they came from with Yvette Harvey, the Keeper of the Herbarium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Dec 25, 2025Duration: 25:58
S24E22 - Monty Don's Christmas at Longmeadow
With the festive season fast approaching, Christmas can be a busy time with no end of tasks to keep us busy on the run up to the big day, but what role can our gardens play in all of this? Whether it's homegrown veg for the festive table or garden gathered greenery and berries for a homemade door reef, our gardens can be a source of great bounty and a place to escape to, of course. Monty Don describes Christmas at Longmeadow and tell us why it's a time for all of us to take a breather. ...
Published: Dec 23, 2025Duration: 35:33
S24E21 - What To Do Now - Clean and service gardening tools
Cleaning hand tools is not particularly glamorous, but it's one of those jobs that gives a lot satisfaction and maintaining your hand tools will reward you with more efficient and safer to use tools that will last for many seasons to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Dec 20, 2025Duration: 7:51
S24E20 - Festive traditions, with Frances Tophill
For a lot of people, this time of year is all about cosying up indoors, but out in the garden there's still so much fun to be had from making natural wreaths and decorating with evergreens, to feeding the birds, sewing onions, and even bringing in a little magic indoors with some festive foliage. Join Frances for Christmassy folklore and the little seasonal rituals and cheerful jobs that make festive gardening feel special. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Dec 18, 2025Duration: 35:42
S24E19 - How to have a stylish and sustainable Christmas, with Arit Anderson
It's the time of year when we start thinking about how to make our homes feel festive and, instead of reaching for tinsel and glitter, why not look to the garden for inspiration? Arit reveals how to decorate for a stylish and natural Christmas, combining sustainability with beauty, and explores what to gather from the garden, how to design with natural colour and texture, and ways to make your decorations last throughout the festive season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Dec 16, 2025Duration: 28:48
S24E18 - Christmas gift ideas from the GW team
With Christmas fast approaching and the desire to find the right gardening present for the right person, why not look to source sustainable gardening gifts for your friends and family. Even if the recipients aren’t green-fingered, the Gardeners’ World magazine team have you covered with a selection of our favourite gifts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Dec 13, 2025Duration: 12:42
S24E17 - Gardening memories, with Carol Klein
Carol Klein has had an interesting, illustrious, and often surprising life and career from jobs as varied as a bus conductor cleaner and art teacher to gardener and TV presenter. She's travelled, got herself into and out of many precarious situations often, but not always in search of plants, and she's met fascinating people along the way. Join us as Carol unearths some of the fascinating stories that have got her to where she is today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published: Dec 11, 2025Duration: 43:44