HortWeek Podcast

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Welcome to the HortWeek Podcast where we bring you news and views on the most important topics of the day for UK horticulture professionals. For more visit https://www.hortweek.co.uk/podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Date
Gardening that's 'good for people and good for the planet' - with National Trust sustainability & plant health lead Rebecca Bevan
Jul 04, 2025
Why horticulturists must ditch 'cavalier' attitude to sunburn and employers must step up - with Jason Daff, Susanna Daniels and Andrew Poole
Jun 27, 2025
How AI is helping to detect pests and diseases with Valeria Kogan
Jun 20, 2025
HortWeek Podcast with Colegrave Seabrook Foundation: unsung hero - Dr Madalena Vaz Monteiro
Jun 13, 2025
Garden shows to remember with BBC Gardeners' World Live's Bob Sweet and Lucy Tremlett
Jun 06, 2025
TV gardener Mark Lane boldly goes into a diverse and futuristic gardening universe
May 30, 2025
How to grow the best poinsettias - ICL experts' advice for professional growers
May 23, 2025
Lee Connelly on life on the road for National Children’s Gardening Week
May 16, 2025
Pippa Greenwood on working to protect, advise and celebrate UK growers
May 09, 2025
'Not your usual garden' - a Chelsea 'finale' and showcasing the unexpected with The Newt's Katie Lewis and Harry Baldwin
May 02, 2025
How horticulture can weather the future with Stuart Priest of Batsford Arboretum
Apr 25, 2025
HortWeek Podcast with Colegrave Seabrook Foundation: unsung hero - arborist James Gadd
Apr 17, 2025
How public-private partnerships are the key to making BNG a success - with Hampshire Wildlife Trusts and Kingwell
Apr 11, 2025
HortWeek Podcast with Colegrave Seabrook Foundation: unsung hero - turfcare specialist David Smith
Apr 04, 2025
Sustainable growth in a turbulent landscape market, with Blakedown Landscapes
Mar 28, 2025
ICL's Andrew Wilson on Water Soluble Fertilisers
Mar 21, 2025
'Instant' Jurassic gardens for the gardeners of the future - with Roisin Wilson of HSK
Mar 14, 2025
A vocation for garden design with Andrew Wilson MBE
Mar 07, 2025
How The Parks Trust’s funding model helps to protect and enhance green spaces in Milton Keynes
Feb 28, 2025
Peat-free standards with Evergreen Garden Care, Durston's, Westland, Melcourt, Southern Trident
Feb 20, 2025
The Grounds Management Association on sector challenges and opportunities as it celebrates its 90th anniversary
Feb 14, 2025
Plant exporting masterclass from IPM Essen
Feb 03, 2025
Balancing perfect pitches and sustainable practises with Stuart Mackley from Fulham Football Club
Jan 31, 2025
Should plant perfection win awards at any cost? with Darren Everest and Jonathan Sheppard
Jan 24, 2025
Silvohorticulture with Ben Raskin and Andy Dibben
Jan 17, 2025
How to excel in a head gardener interview with Alan Sargent
Jan 10, 2025
Carnivorous peat-free plants pioneer Sean Higgs
Dec 20, 2024
Peat, private equity garden retail ownership and BCPs among big issues for 2025, says new HTA president Will Armitage
Dec 13, 2024
Up and coming TV garden makeover star Chris Hull
Dec 06, 2024
Get Children Growing with inspirational horticulturist Ross Dyke
Nov 29, 2024
Finding the trees to survive the future, with Kevin Martin head of tree collections at RBG Kew
Nov 22, 2024
Fighting for our right to roam, with Kate Ashbrook of Open Spaces Society
Nov 15, 2024
The End of Peat: Episode 4 - A whole new take on horticulture
Nov 11, 2024
The End of Peat: Episode 3 - The cost of trial and error
Nov 11, 2024
The End of Peat: Episode 2 - From Multipurpose to pick 'n' mix
Nov 04, 2024
The End of Peat: Episode 1 - Do we need a peat ban?
Nov 04, 2024
Inspiration for garden centre trees with Kernock Park Plants' nurseryman and award-winning writer, Bob Askew
Nov 01, 2024
Keeping it local for houseplants with Imogen Bell of YPHA and Thomson's Garden C
Oct 25, 2024
What it is like exhibiting at Chelsea Flower Show? with Sparsholt College students
Oct 18, 2024
Harnessing skills and knowledge to protect the UK's green spaces, with James Cairncross and Angela Lewis from the Midlands Parks Forum
Oct 11, 2024
Should we ban peat in horticulture? Plant collection holder Jonathan Sheppard and dahlia and sweet pea grower Darren Everest debate the peat ban
Oct 04, 2024
ICL's Sam Rivers on IPM planning
Sep 27, 2024
The benefits of GroundsFest 2024 with Chris Bassett, Jonathan Snowball and David Fisher
Sep 20, 2024
Outgoing HTA president Alan Down on his horticulture past, present and future
Sep 13, 2024
Wakehurst director Susan Raikes on plans for the Sussex garden
Sep 06, 2024
Why GroundsFest is a must-attend event with Chris Bassett, Wayne Grills, and Ian Graham
Aug 30, 2024
Horticulture Week Podcast with Colegrave Seabrook Foundation: working in and learning about horticulture at Ball Colegrave
Aug 30, 2024
Raspberries as 'a work of art' with Lucy Wilkins of Angus Soft Fruits
Aug 23, 2024
Green Solutions' Edwin Meijer on how to bulld good loyalty programmes
Aug 16, 2024
Leading horticulturists Matthew Bent and Graham Spencer on visiting Four Oaks Trade Show
Aug 09, 2024
Turf care challenges with Sally Jarrett of Collier Turf Care
Aug 02, 2024
Fruit futures with Oli Pascall of Clockhouse Farm and Alana Deacon of Hall Hunter and chair of NextGen Fruit Group
Jul 26, 2024
The reality of home-grown and imported food and their carbon emissions, with Louise Gray
Jul 19, 2024
Gardens for environmental and social change with horticultural activist, Tayshan Hayden-Smith
Jul 12, 2024
Glendale's Deric Newman on bringing former prison inmates into the workforce
Jul 05, 2024
Modiform on reducing plastic in horticulture and its move into retail packaging
Jun 28, 2024
George Eustice on the peat ban, import/export friction and his legacy
Jun 25, 2024
Moving from planting to growing new trees, with the Tree Council's Sara Lom
Jun 21, 2024
Career changers: how Neal Ritson found his way into horticultural production from the music industry
Jun 14, 2024
Changing careers from cycling to professional gardening - with Connie Hudson
Jun 07, 2024
Claire Austin on peony perfection
May 31, 2024
ICL's Hort Science Live previewed
May 24, 2024
Building Sparsholt College's Chelsea Flower Show exhibit - with students Chloe, Hayden, Jessica and Joshua
May 17, 2024
Commonwealth War Graves Commission's David Richardson on horticulture and D-Day, CIOH and Kew
May 10, 2024
Horticulture legend and nature gardening innovator Chris Baines on rewilding, biodiversity, bird feeding and parks
May 03, 2024
ICL: all about biostimulants in horticulture
Apr 26, 2024
Fargro's Richard Hopkins on drones, sustainability and fairness in the supply chain
Apr 25, 2024
Careers in the agritech and hortitech industries with Oli Hilbourne of Outfield
Apr 19, 2024
A career in the agritech and hortitech industries with plant pathologist, Laura Bouvet
Apr 12, 2024
Fargro's Richard Hopkins on crop protection, peat, water and trade policy
Apr 05, 2024
Careers in the landscape industries with industry heavyweight and APL general manager, Phil Tremayne
Mar 28, 2024
ICL - all about water quality
Mar 28, 2024
Careers in the landscape industries with APL WorldSkills gold medal-winning landscaper Anna Mcloughlin
Mar 22, 2024
Leading growers Stefano Sogni of Zelari and Kyle Ross of Wyevale Nurseries on the Four Oaks Trade Show 2024
Mar 12, 2024
The future of green jobs with Billy Knowles of the Youth Environmental Service
Mar 08, 2024
ICL on vine weevil control
Feb 28, 2024
Make Parks Sexy Again! - the joy of parks with Paul Rabbitts
Feb 23, 2024
The potential and limitations of Biodiversity Net Gain with landscape architect Alexandra Steed
Feb 16, 2024
Plant Collection holder Jonathan Sheppard takes his 'hobby' to Chelsea Flower Show
Feb 09, 2024
Lee Stiles of Lea Valley Growers' Association warns about potential 2024 salad shortages
Feb 02, 2024
A life in professional gardening with Alan Mason of the Professional Gardeners Guild
Jan 26, 2024
Why horticulture should get on board with the benefits of horticulture therapy with Annabelle Padwick
Jan 19, 2024
Confessions of a landscape gardener with Alan Sargent
Jan 12, 2024
TV Garden Ninja Lee Burkhill on passing on garden knowledge
Jan 05, 2024
Growing and selling plants with Sue Beesley of Bluebell Cottage Gardens
Dec 22, 2023
A career in garden management with Beechgrove's Scott Smith
Dec 14, 2023
A career in botanical garden management with RBG Edinburgh's Raoul Curtis-Machin
Dec 08, 2023
Careers in garden retail with Steve Barrow of British Garden Centres
Dec 01, 2023
Careers in garden retail with Liam Beddall of David Austin Roses
Nov 24, 2023
Horticultural education options with Lucy Lewis of Sparsholt College
Nov 17, 2023
Horticultural education with RHS horticultural courses officer Sarah Hale
Nov 10, 2023
A career in plant breeding - with Simon Crawford of Burpee
Oct 19, 2023
A career in plant breeding with Tim Kerley of Kerley & Co
Oct 19, 2023
A horticultural destiny and the power of positivity, with Beechcroft Gardens' head gardener and TV presenter, Scott Smith
Oct 19, 2023
The National Fruit Collection at Brogdale, with landscape architect Tom La Dell
Oct 13, 2023
ICL on Lalguard M52 GR – the new bioinsecticide for vine weevil control
Oct 06, 2023
The hidden biodiversity of moss with Dr Neil Bell of RBG Edinburgh
Sep 29, 2023
Unearthing the female pioneers of professional gardening with Fiona Davison
Sep 22, 2023
Reinventing Borde Hill with Jay Goddard and Harry Baldwin
Sep 15, 2023
Reviving Blenheim Palace gardens to create 'The English Versailles'! - with head gardener Andy Mills
Sep 08, 2023
How comfortable is the outdoor furniture market? with Andy Baxter of Maze
Aug 30, 2023
Predicting and protecting plant futures with RBG Kew's Richard Barley and Rebecca Lane
Aug 25, 2023
Ben Goldsmith: influential Conservative environmentalist on rewilding, garden centres and policy
Aug 15, 2023
Safeguarding plant histories and plant futures with Gill Groombridge of Plant Heritage
Aug 08, 2023
Growing and planting for the gardens of the future - with Neil Lucas of Knoll Gardens
Aug 04, 2023
Martyn Flint of Chrysanthemums Direct
Jul 28, 2023
From elite football to elite horticulture - ambition and high standards with Creepers' Michael Buck
Jul 21, 2023
Unearthing the benefits of healthy soils and how it can help fight climate change, with Tim O'Hare
Jul 13, 2023
Gardens made of daydream, turned into an equation and back into a daydream - with Peter Donegan
Jul 07, 2023
Managing irrigation when using peat-free growing media - with ICL
Jun 30, 2023
Bringing business nous to arboriculture, with Henri Ghijben of HRG Tree Surgeons
Jun 23, 2023
Legendary plant breeder Peter Moore reflects 40 years and 45 plants
Jun 16, 2023
Harrowden Turf on wildflowers, plastic, demand, tech and mental health
Jun 09, 2023
TV gardener Chris Collins on the royal wedding, parks, children's and community gardening
Jun 05, 2023
Keeping the plant trade healthy - Alistair Yeomans of Plant Healthy on the biosecurity challenges
May 26, 2023
Steering a plant nursery through an age of unprecedented change, with Melanie Asker of Greenwood Plants
May 19, 2023
Award-winning tree grower Eliot Barden on peat, biosecurity and horticulture careers
May 12, 2023
How ICL's new biostimulant Vitalnova triboost can turbo charge your peat-reduced or peat-free growing media
May 05, 2023
Tree planting, felling and benefits to society, with Trees for Cities' Kate Sheldon
Apr 28, 2023
Jake Catling, bringing the creative passion to landscape contracting
Apr 21, 2023
Diversity and inclusion in horticulture - with Adrian Wickham and Tessa Johnstone
Apr 14, 2023
Peonies in the spotlight with Alec White
Apr 06, 2023
Award winning landscape projects, greening the grey, and the ongoing skills shortage with Maylim
Mar 31, 2023
The rose market trends, supply, demand and sustainability with Whartons Roses
Mar 24, 2023
ChatGPT talks horticulture, biostimulants, fertilisers and pests and diseases - with ICL
Mar 17, 2023
Burpee Seeds looks to the future
Mar 10, 2023
High climber Jo Hedger of Arbor Venture on her world-beating career in arboriculture
Mar 03, 2023
Psychology and sensory gardens with garden designer Camellia Taylor
Feb 24, 2023
Peat, imports, trends and garden retail best practice with HTA president Alan Down
Feb 16, 2023
How to meet the garden retail challenges of the future, with Garden Centre Association CEO Peter Burks
Feb 10, 2023
Making a career in landscape - with Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park apprentices Mark Skinner and Adam James
Feb 03, 2023
Wembley Park - where champion trees meet champion footballers - with masterplanning head Julian Tollast and estate landscape manager David Hughes
Jan 26, 2023
Kew's Joe Richomme on career changing and the importance of botanical names
Jan 20, 2023
The benefits of LED lighting for growers with Signify's Nathanael Dannenberg
Jan 12, 2023
The joy of gardens, gardening and garden writing with Barbara Segall
Jan 06, 2023
Harnessing biodiversity at Trentham Gardens with Carol Adams
Dec 22, 2022
Biosecurity in the spotlight with Provender Nurseries' Richard McKenna
Dec 15, 2022
Natural pest control with Julian Ives of Dragonfli
Dec 09, 2022
Laugh along with the stars of the latest Perennial 'naked' calendar as they reveal all!
Dec 02, 2022
Nick Hamilton talks peat-free, his father Geoff's legacy and the future of Barnsdale
Nov 24, 2022
New broad spectrum insecticide Mainspring with ICL's Sam Rivers and Syngenta's Sean Loakes
Nov 18, 2022
The healthy future of roses with Rose Society treasurer Daniel Myhill
Nov 11, 2022
How to thrive while tackling the twin threats of ecological crisis and the skills shortage with Jon Grantham of LUC
Nov 04, 2022
Mr Plant Geek on how to use new and old media to bridging the horticulture industry and new customers
Oct 21, 2022
Supporting the next generation of leading horticulturists with the Colegrave Seabrook Foundation
Oct 14, 2022
Reconciling biodiversity and profit in landscape maintenance - with Ground Control's Jack Potter
Sep 30, 2022
The battle against weeds - Amenity Forum's Peter Corbett on how it should be fought
Sep 23, 2022
Sally Drury on 40 years at HortWeek and a lifetime in horticulture
Sep 15, 2022
'The biodiversity crisis is in some ways even more urgent than the climate' - Natural England chair Tony Juniper on how nature has the answers
Sep 09, 2022
Landscaping a way to net zero with Nurture Group’s Gordon Whyte
Sep 02, 2022
Garden trends, challenges and opportunities with HTA president Boyd Douglas-Davies and chairman James Barnes
Aug 25, 2022
Selling seeds in the face of Brexit reality, Covid and Ukraine with Paolo Arrigo of Seeds of Italy
Aug 11, 2022
Growing and selling cut flowers in the post-lockdown period with Flowers from the Farm
Aug 04, 2022
Selling garden products with Edwin Meijer of Garden Connect
Jul 21, 2022
The art of spray application on ornamentals crops with ICL's Sam Rivers and Syngenta's Sean Loakes
Jul 14, 2022
SOLEX director Gina Hinde on the outdoor living market and highlights from SOLEX 2022
Jul 08, 2022
Berries are booming but labour shortages need to be addressed, says British Berry Growers' Nick Marston
Jun 24, 2022
Interior plant designer to the stars, Ian Drummond on peat free houseplants, coming trends and career highlights
Jun 16, 2022
Southern Trident on new coir-based products for Glee and future growing media legislation
Jun 09, 2022
Conceptual landscape consultant Kim Wilkie on what it really means to be 'landscape-led'
May 27, 2022
How TASK Academy will help overcome the skills shortage and why landscapers still don’t get enough recognition - with Rupert Keys
May 20, 2022
The good of sustainable garden design (and why artificial grass should be banned), with SGD chair Lynne Marcus
May 13, 2022
Fargro's Richard Hopkins on sustainability, crop protection, energy and inflation for UK growers
May 03, 2022
Adrian Evans, Finland's 'British Gardener'
Apr 28, 2022
The many and varied benefits of wildflowers and soilless turf with Wildflower Turf
Apr 21, 2022
The horticulture skills shortage and how Future Gardeners can help tackle it - with Louise Mansfield
Apr 12, 2022
ICL on tackling vine weevils
Mar 31, 2022
Bunny Guinness on keeping peat, sexism in garden design and how slugs are not gardeners' friends
Mar 24, 2022
Keeping the horticultural show on the road - with Andy Tudbury
Mar 11, 2022
How horticulture can help tackle climate change with Ground Control's Marcus Watson
Mar 08, 2022
ICL on growing media and successful peat-free growing
Feb 28, 2022
'Waste not want not' - how British Sugar Topsoil hits the sweet spot between the environment and profit
Feb 09, 2022
'Skinny Jean Gardener' Lee Connelly on his plan to get kids gardening, the 'peat mafia' and how he'd run the RHS
Feb 04, 2022
The wonders of biocontrols and integrated pest management with IPS's Dr Sam Jones
Jan 28, 2022
TV garden designer and podcast pioneer on how he 'loves it when a plan comes together' Peter Donegan
Jan 20, 2022
Protecting the legacy of John Brookes at Denmans Gardens
Jan 12, 2022
Planting all over the world with Lullingstone Castle's Tom Hart Dyke
Dec 16, 2021
Wonderful woodchip, agroforestry and peat turned over with the Soil Association's Ben Raskin
Dec 09, 2021
Richard Jackson on his horticulture life from Roy Lancaster via QVC to launching his own plantcare range
Nov 23, 2021
The legendary plantsman Adrian Bloom on star plants, new plants and the need to preserve key horticultural skills
Nov 12, 2021
'Using nature to fix a faulty brain' - harnessing horticulture to improve well-being and treating garden centre workers right
Nov 03, 2021
A rose to remember 18th century Welsh black gardener, John Ystumllyn
Oct 21, 2021
ICL on growing media and making peat-free work for horticultural growers
Oct 19, 2021
Young People in Horticulture Association: the future of horticulture
Oct 12, 2021
Harnessing the therapeutic potential of gardens with Horatio's Gardens' Dr Olivia Chapple
Sep 15, 2021
Peat-free compost: the latest developments, new products, supply pressures, price rises and consumer appetite with Southern Trident's Steve Harper
Sep 07, 2021
Horticultural lighting: trends, benefits and financing with GE Current
Aug 27, 2021
This autumn we will learn how ten tomatoes changed the world with Pennard Plants' Chelsea Flower Show display, but could also face significant grow your own supply challenges
Jul 29, 2021
How investing in local communities is helping reduce the skills gap and shoring up the future for Countrywide Grounds Maintenance
Jul 21, 2021
How diversity be improved in the landscape industry?
Jul 16, 2021
The past, present and future of the turf management sector as SALTEX prepares to return
Jul 08, 2021
'Life's not easy being a nurseryman' - Herb 'Queen' Jekka McVicar on how she makes it work
Jul 01, 2021
Growing and selling orchids through the pandemic via Brexit and into an uncertain future - with Double H Nurseries' MD Andy Burton
Jun 24, 2021
How horticultural growers can get the best out of adjuvants for their crops
Jun 21, 2021
Wimbledon tennis strawberry grower Marion Regan on what you do with 33 tonnes of strawberries when coronavirus cancelled the tennis and how British pickers fared in 2020
Jun 16, 2021
Horticultural lighting - Signify on lighting for strawberries
Jun 08, 2021
View from the plantarea: Andy Bunker from Alton Garden Centre on plant supply issues, peat sales, plant trends,
May 28, 2021
Kernock Park Plants' Bruce Harnett on meeting the challenges of trading through the pandemic, post-Brexit and moving towards peat-free growing
May 26, 2021
Lawn Association founder David Hedges Gower speaks on Monty Don row and artificial turf
May 19, 2021
Growing plants through war, storms, recessions, pestilence and pandemic - how Johnsons of Whixley has survived and thrived 100 years
May 14, 2021
How to grow the best peonies - renowned plantswoman Claire Austin gives her grower tips
May 07, 2021
Glendoick Gardens' Ken Cox on beginner gardeners, plant-hunting, growing and Brexit
Apr 30, 2021
Could insect-based fertilisers be the next big thing in organic retail and production horticulture?
Apr 29, 2021
Hillier's Chris Francis speaks about Syon Park and the future for the renowned retailer/nursery
Apr 27, 2021
Not just a pretty garden: how to survive as a garden designer
Apr 22, 2021
How to harness natural water quality and enhance it to maximise plant health
Apr 15, 2021
Ahead of the curve - Desch Plantpak on the ups and downs of riding a tidal wave of demand for recycled plastic in horticulture
Mar 25, 2021
Horticultural climber - CIOH president-to-be Susan Nicholas on women in horticulture and the state of horticultural training
Mar 22, 2021
What are the benefits of horticultural biostimulants?
Mar 17, 2021
How to engage millions of new 'lockdown' gardeners this season - with David Domoney and Evergreen's Mark Portman
Mar 02, 2021
How growers can navigate the withdrawal of key horticultural chemicals
Feb 11, 2021
Brexit and horticultural exports with Raymond Evison and Patrick Fairweather
Jan 26, 2021
Brexit and horticulture imports/exports with Jacob Kolff and Matt Graham
Dec 09, 2020
Peat, peat-free, coir and the UK market
Nov 12, 2020
Horticulture Week Podcast #6: Stars for Europe on the poinsettia market for 2020 and beyond - Sponsored by Stars for Europe
Oct 26, 2020
Horticulture Week Podcast #5: Matthew Appleby visits Peter Seabrook at RHS Hyde Hall
Oct 01, 2020
Horticulture Week Podcast #4: Matthew Appleby visits Ladds Garden Centre redevelopment
Sep 25, 2020
Spirit of Four Oaks Podcast #1: Matthew Appleby interviews Fargro's Richard Hopkins
Sep 14, 2020
Horticulture Week Podcast #3: visiting Ball Colegrave post-lockdown
Jul 14, 2020
Horticulture Week Podcast#1: horticulture and coronavirus roundup
Jun 19, 2020
Horticulture Week Podcast#2: Peter Seabrook and Matt Appleby
Jun 16, 2020