Not Just a Garden

This week's guest to tell us about his dream garden is Patrick Smikle from Smile with Smikle! Patrick appeared on Gardeners' World in September 2022 and also in early 2023 where he took us for a tour of his beautiful and inspiring alleyway garden. Patrick mentions Bud Garden Centre in the chat, who've been instrumental in Patrick showing his alleyway, they can be found here: https://notjustagarden...

We're back at Longmeadow with Monty and Ned this week before swiftly heading over to Carol Klein's place in North Devon for some more tips on producing plants for free. We also meet Carole Tate in Chorley to learn all about sweet peas and also John Willshire in Lindfield, West Sussex to find out how to rewild a new-build garden. Vivienne and David Murch show us around their beautiful sloping garde...

This week's guest is Geoff Stonebanks who tells us all about his dream garden, which is surprisingly similar to his actual garden Driftwood by Sea! Geoff opens his garden through the National Garden Scheme and has raised and continues to raise incredible amounts for charity. He featured on Gardeners' World 2024 episode 2 and also back in 2016 so is a regular on the show. We had a giggle hearing ab...

It's the 25th anniversary of Tatton Park and Frances and Adam take us on a tour of the show gardens, long borders, creative cubes and floral marquee. We meet Christine Leung and her hard-working team who shows us the prep for their wonderful "Glean" garden, and the infectiously enthusiastic young designer Callum Corrie - AKA Sandy Beach - shows us his award winning "Entertaining Meets Nature" gard...

We're thrilled to debut a new series in our Not Just a Garden line-up - A Good Ol' Chit-Chat With...! During these episodes our guests tell us about their dream garden and we find out more about them and their lives along the way. In this episode we were very lucky to be able to chat with the wonderful Amir Mohammed from Amir's Allotment, you may remember him from his "Your Gardens" segment on Gar...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24 recaps! Today in episode 16 we were taken on a tour of Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival with Arit and Nick, visiting some of the 34 show gardens. Sue Kent chatted to David Myhill who showed us his national collection of persica rose hybrids and Tom Massey introduced us to his Resilient Gardens mentees for the Pocket Planting feature. Charlotte and Fred Den...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24 recaps! Today in episode 15 we got to see how Nick Bailey's new garden in Northamptonshire is coming along and Bob Chambers gave some aphid advice from his veggie patch. Bryan and Linda Goodey wow'd us with their cactus knowledge from Cactusland at Southfield Nurseries and Adam took us to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens where Emily Hazel explained the huge re...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today in episode 14 we spent time with Frances, Jeanette, Russ and Ru at Powderham Castle and Rekha chatted to head gardener Sean Harkin at the Inner Temple Gardens. Jo Stocking and Richard Bendall showed us their sunken garden in Warton, North Lancashire and Toby Buckland took us for a stroll through the sensational gardens of Wollerton Old Hall in S...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today we're looking at episode 13 where we visit the Gardeners’ World Live at the NEC in Birmingham. We saw the beautiful orchids presented by Zsuza from Spiceotic and it was inspiring to see the incredible community work carried out at The Growing Project in Digbeth with Jo Capper, Matthew Cox and Kieran Bird We've posted a reel with the plant i...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today we're looking at episode 12 in which we Carol Klein teaches us more about propagating, we spend time with Chris Groves in Overbooks Gardens in Salcombe, Vicky Halliday gives us some tips on pineapples, Sue Kent takes us to Paula and Iain Davies' House on Stilts in Carmarthenshire and Lucy Skellorn shows us her national collection of irises. We'v...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today we're looking at episode 11 where we visit Aston Pottery Gardens with Carol and Lea Gardens with Pete Tye. We've posted a reel with the plant images and names on our Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden or on our instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7vqdDjqGuD/ Here are the plant names we picked up: Allium h...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today we're looking at episode 10 and we're back with Monty and Ned and visit some beautiful gardens in the UK We've posted a reel with the plant images and names on our Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden or on our instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7LmJILKWVX/ Here are the plant names we picked up: Aeoniums I...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today we're looking at episode 9 where we visit the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. We've posted a reel with the plant images and names on our Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden or on our instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C65qVvhKGxS/ These are the plant names we collected this week: Tulipa ‘Orange Balloon’ Geum...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today we're looking at episode 8 and we're both quite taken by Nick's footwork! We've posted a reel with the plant images and names on our Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden or on our instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6nt6SdKrVg/ These are the plants names we collected this week: Lathyrus odoratus ‘Black Knig...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today we're looking at episode 7 where we discuss the virtues of Man Ferns We've posted a reel with the plant images on our Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden or on our instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6VsAvvqDqj/ These are the plants names we collected this week: Salvia rosmarinus Miss Jessop’s Upright Scot...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today we're looking at episode 6 and Hobbes is in her happy place💨 We've posted a reel of the plants we picked up on our Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden or on our instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6DnB5qqSzP/ We took a guess at the beautiful rose in Jim Mcgill’s Bristol garden (Rosa ‘Buff Beauty’) and als...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today we're looking at episode 5 and are vying for the world record number of times one can say "London" in 30 seconds. We've posted a reel of the plants we picked up on our Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden or on our instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5xHXpoqC6B/ Rosa ‘Emily Brontë’ Philadelphus Mock Orange...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today we're looking at episode 4 where you'll get to have two Bears for the price of one as unfortunately Bear is picking up on both microphones. Sweetpea holds her own though! We've posted a reel of the plants we picked up on our Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustaGarden or on our instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today we're looking at episode 3, where Sweetpea remembers an old screen-saver and talks with some pent up aggression towards parsley plants. You can find the plant names we captured here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5QhT2IqBAg/ Nepeta x faassenii ‘Purrsian Blue’ Geranium Rozanne Primula ‘Veristar Lemon’ Brunnera macrophylla ‘Silver Spear’ Siberian b...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today we're looking at episode 2, there were some rumbling tummies and happy memories of Torsie the Tortoise! Here are the plant names we captured: Ligustrum delavayanum Delavay privet Phlox Veronicastrum virginicum – ‘Album’ Lobelia cardinalis ‘Queen Victoria’ Cardinal flower Salvia ‘Royal Bumble’ Clematis ‘Kermesina’ Potentilla thurberi  '...

NJAG is back with Gardeners' World 24, recaps! Today we're breaking down episode 1 whilst being under attack by our resident stink bug. You can find highlights of the podcast on our Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-amRsy_zCQ Here are the plant names we picked up: Pear ‘Concorde’ Pear ‘Doyenné du Comice’ Lilium ‘My Wedding’ Geranium pratense “Mrs Kendall Clark’ Geum ‘Mai Tai’...

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First stop this week is with Francis at Bex Partridge' s productive dried flower workshop and garden in Devon before joining Nick at Cary Goode's unbelievably beautiful garden at Rhodd's Farm . We visit Matt Kirkbride's "wee pocket of Fife" and then head to Coventry with Sue Kent for a look at the Heritage Seed Library . Sue and Bob Smith in Stroud tell us all about butterflies and moths and then...

WARNING - MAY CAUSE DISTRESS TO SENSITIVE EARS! Big apologies for the poor sound quality, We're still working out how to get it just right, unfortunately this week's episode wasn't😱 This week we had a chit-chat about  Gardeners' World 2024 Compilation Episode 3. We revisit Maggie Haynes at Tuppenny Barn , and see what wonders Helen Tu is growing in her Dulwich allotment . Sandy Burn and Yvon...

This week we had a chit-chat about  Gardeners' World 2024 Compilation Episode 2. Monty was showing us his roses and some planting in the Writing Garden whilst Rachel popped over to see Carol Bruce at Old Bladbean Stud Gardens . We met Jonny Balchandani aka The Bearded Plantaholic and spent some time with Roman in his treehouse in Oxfordshire. Nick had a look at dogwoods at Newby Hall in North...