Through The Garden Gate

We start with a question from George as always, this week about where 70% of the oxygen in the planet comes from. Our guest tonight is more than just a guest, I would consider him a friend. A fellow head gardener battling with limited resources to deliver as high a quality of garden as possible. He has the added pressure that it’s an open garden in a historical site with areas of SSSI. We spoke ab...

We start as always with a quick chat with George and a garden question, this week all about which species of plants that provide all the food for the human race. Tonight’s guest is definitely living the dream, living off grid in a sustainable cabin in the woods. Built from wood milled from the trees. How incredible for Marcus to have played and made dens in the woodland as a kid then go on to buil...

We started as we always do with a quick chat with George and his garden question, this week about snails. What a fabulous fact I don’t think many people knew. Tonight we have Josh Taylor who is a garden designer and consultant at the moment but he has had some fantastic experiences in his career including at Great Dixter. He is also trying to highlight some really serious problems in horticulture...

We start with George Christmas list before we actually get on to some garden chat and George’s garden question, this week about sugar cane 🦯 What a pleasure to have Izzy on again and to talk to him about all the success he has had with his social media and more importantly about plants! Izzy has had some great experiences this year and even got to visit the kings personal garden Highgrove with @g...

We’re back after a week off, hope you didn’t miss us too much! We started talking about the weather obviously and the equinox, Then we got a garden question from George this week about courgette! This weeks guest we tried to have on a few weeks ago but technical difficulties prevented it but tonight we have the wonderful Tasha all the way from the Isle of Man! 🇮🇲 Tasha has revolutionised the way w...

Short one today because we had a guest pull out, we started as always with George’s garden question this week all about a fruit with built in air conditioning! Jamie had something exciting to show us… Honey from his bee hives! His first ever harvest! 🐝 Jamie also told us all about his trip to Fothergills, one of the largest seed supplier in the UK. Of course we talk about the shocking gardening n...

We start the episode as ever with a fab question from George this week all about the largest garden in the world! Marc and Jamie discuss the shocking and unexpected drawing in of the evenings that happens every year and of course the weeks weather. Tonight we spot the the soil enthusiast Teddy who knows more about soil than most people know about the food grown in it. Fantastic chat that could hav...

A random time and day for a very good reason, today’s guest is from the east coast of Australia so for him it’s 19:30pm. We started as we always do with a quick chat and a garden question from George, this week about Rhubarb as we were wearing Rhubarb leaves on our heads the other day. Our guest is from the other side of the world, who is trying to help people reduce the supply chain from food gro...

We start as ever with a chat with George and a gardening question, this week about a plant that listens to the flow of water 💦  Our guest had major technical issues so we were unable to get her on but we will try again another day! So me and Jamie just chatted about our growing season, what we have succeeded in what’s failed what we need to try next year to create a more resilient veg garden...

Tonight we started with rhubarb leaves on our heads, the heat is obviously getting to us, George told us all about his adventures over the last few weeks and about him being brave and conquering his fears. Then he gave us a garden question as ever! This week all about Hummingbird Hawk Moths. Tonight’s guest is a horticultural consultant who started her career in hospitality and even to the far rea...

No guest tonight but we had our regular question from George this week about wildflowers and bees  Then Marc and Jamie did a tour of their plots and talked about what they have growing, successes and failures. Thanks everyone for joining in with the chat. See you next week for another rambling chat with a guest from the world of horticulture 💚 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

We started the show as always with a question from George this week all about something from your kitchen that will help your tomatoes 🍅  We started a bit late after a bizarre pheasant emergency after one was alive and stuck in my cars front grill. Tonight’s guest passion is exotics and a jungle style garden. He has created an amazing space that feels extremely jungly using plants are capabl...

This weeks garden question from George was all about how many seeds a strawberry have on them 🍓 Tonight’s guest hopes to inspire people to discover where their food comes from, and maybe choose a career in Agriculture. She is the host of Second Nature @second_natureuk a podcast celebrating the seasons, farming, gardening and the countryside. She also has a cute sidekick called Willow the Corgi. S...

We started as we always start with chaos and a gardening question from George. This week it was about bulbs.  Tonight we had a guest who’s mission is to help change the way we live as a society, he believes we should be growing food as a community and not relying on the shops. I loved how Chay has found a connection to nature that has made his life complete and now he wants to inspire more pe...

Welcome to another episode, this week we are slowly baking alive in the dehumidifier formally known as United Kingdom, we start as ever with a chat with George and his famous gardening question. Who will win this week Jamie, Marc or will George stump them both. Tonight’s guest is a geologist with nearly 40 years experience having working on projects all over the world. He has now moved in to the w...

We start as always with a chat with George and his gardening question, this week all about Raspberries. Marc and Jamie chatted about what they had been up too in their gardens, Marc gave a Robomower update from work. Our guest tonight is someone with over 32 years experience in the world of horticulture, specialising in creating gardens that are naturalistic and wildlife friendly. He is very passi...

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...

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...

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 t...

Jamie and Marc chat about the positives and negatives of Chelsea Flower show. We also chatted all about the other garden shows coming up! George gave us a garden question this week about bees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yes you read that right Jamie thought it would be interesting to turn the tables and interview Marc as the guest tonight so we can find out his story right from the beginning. George gave us his weekly garden question this week all about daisys and the scores are Marc 9 Jamie 5 and George 4 (George gets a point if Marc and Jamie get it wrong) We even got a bonus guest in Marc’s mum popping on to t...

We started with a question from George as always and Marc and Jamie got it wrong again! This week about the biggest flower in the world. Tonight we had the horticultural lifer Chris Wiley who has been gardening since the age of 8 and even asked for a greenhouse as a present. Chris has had such a fantastic career so far from working in a nursery to releasing an amazing new sweet pea variety which w...

Great to be with you all again back at our usual time with only a few hiccups. We of course started with the big reveal of Marc’s new caravan garden room, George gave us his garden question, this week about Avocardo. It was fantastic to have a tour of Elle’s garden now we have lighter evenings. She has achieved so much in a short space of time. With no doubt lots of hard work. If you don’t follow...

No guest just us having a chat showing and talking about what we have growing in our gardens. After Instagram not letting us have sound on for the last few days we finally managed to get it sorted. George gave us his weekly update in to his gardening world and gave Jamie and Marc their weekly gardening question. This week about apple trees. It’s lovely to have a chat just the two of us every now a...

We didn’t just have on guest we had 3! Tom, Aime and Jon who are currently building a garden for the @rhsmalvernshowteam They count have chose a more perfect brief after the @rspb advice to stop feeding birds from feeders during the summer months to try and reduce disease. They have design a garden with creating habitat and food for our feathered friends all year without the need to put out feeder...