Jonathan Wheatley, Stamford and Rutland Garden Maintenance

The No-Fluff Garden Podcast

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If you’re new here, this is exactly what it says on the tin: straightforward gardening advice from someone who actually gardens for a living. No recycled tips that sounded clever in 1978 but don’t help you when your plants are sulking in a wet British winter or drought summers. Likewise no pretentious interviews and no zero-experience gardening advice from scholars who've never got wet pruning a wisteria in January! Just simple, honest advice for today's gardens that actually works.

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Jonathan Wheatley, Stamford and Rutland Garden Maintenance

Episodes

Rose Pruning, Training and more... 05.02.2026 9:07

Today, we’re talking about one of the true classics of the British garden: Roses. Whether you’ve inherited an unruly old climber, you’re eyeing up a romantic rambling rose for an archway, or you just want a reliable shrub rose that flowers its socks off, this episode is for you. We’ll cover climbing, rambling and shrub roses, plus the practical stuff people actually worry about: planting, pruning,...

Lavender - Growing and Pruning in the UK 30.01.2026 10:47

Today’s plant is a British garden icon: Lavender. It’s timeless, it smells incredible, pollinators absolutely love it, and once it’s settled in, it can be one of the easiest shrubs you’ll grow. But if you get a few key things wrong, lavender has a habit of turning woody, leggy, and frankly miserable. So in this episode, I’m going to take you through lavender from start to finish: a bit of backgrou...