Horticulture Week Podcasts 

The Horticulture Week Podcast is the leading, free to access podcast for horticulture and garden industry professionals.

If you are interested in producing a podcast with Horticulture Week, please email matthew.appleby@haymarket.com and tom.melvin@haymarket.com.

Latest Podcasts

Matthew Appleby and Nick Marston

Horticulture Week Podcast: Berries are booming but labour shortages need to be addressed, says British Berry Growers' Nick Marston

24 June 2022

Matthew Appleby and Ian Drummond

Horticulture Week Podcast: Interior plant designer to the stars, Ian Drummond on peat free houseplants, plant trends and career highlights

16 June 2022

Matthew Appleby and Steve Harper

Horticulture Week Podcast: Southern Trident on new coir-based products for Glee and future growing media legislation

9 June 2022

Presented by Southern Trident

Horticulture Week Podcast: conceptual landscape consultant Kim Wilkie on what it really means to be led by the land

27 May 2022 , By Rachael Forsyth

Horticulture Week Podcast: How TASK Academy will help overcome the skills shortage and why landscapers still don’t get enough recognition - with Rupert Keys

20 May 2022 , By Rachael Forsyth

Horticulture Week Podcast – Lynne Marcus and Rachael Forsyth

Horticulture Week Podcast: the good of sustainable garden design (and why artificial grass should be banned) with SGD chair Lynne Marcus

13 May 2022 , By Rachael Forsyth

Matthew Appleby and Richard Hopkins

Horticulture Week Podcast: Fargro's Richard Hopkins on sustainability, crop protection, energy and inflation for UK growers

3 May 2022 , By Matthew Appleby

Presented by Fargro
Matthew Appleby and Adrian Evans

Horticulture Week Podcast - Adrian Evans, Finland's 'British Gardener'

28 April 2022

Matthew Appleby and James Hewetson-Brown

Horticulture Week Podcast: the many and varied benefits of wildflowers with Wildflower Turf Ltd

21 April 2022

Presented by Wildflower Turf Ltd
Rachael Forsyth and Louisa Mansfield

Horticulture Week Podcast: the horticulture skills shortage and how Future Gardeners can help tackle it, with Louisa Mansfield

11 April 2022

Andrew Wilson, Matthew Appleby, Sam Rivers

Horticulture Week Podcast: - ICL on tackling vine weevils

31 March 2022

Presented by ICL UK
Bunny Guinness

Horticulture Week Podcast: Bunny Guinness speaks out on keeping peat, sexism in garden design and how slugs are not gardeners' friends

24 March 2022

Andy Tudbury and Matthew Appleby

Horticulture Week Podcast: keeping the horticultural show on the road with Andy Tudbury

14 March 2022

Horticulture Week Podcast: How horticulture can help tackle climate change with Ground Control's Marcus Watson

8 March 2022

Andrew Wilson, Matthew Appleby, Sam Rivers

Horticulture Week Podcast: ICL on growing media and successful peat-free growing

25 February 2022

Presented by ICL UK
Matthew Appleby and Andy Spetch

Horticulture Week Podcast: 'Waste not want not' - how British Sugar Topsoil hits the sweet spot between the environment and profit

10 February 2022

Matthew Appleby and Lee Connelly

Horticulture Week Podcast: 'Skinny Jean Gardener' Lee Connelly on his plan to get kids gardening, the 'peat mafia' and how he'd run the RHS

4 February 2022

Sam Jones and Matthew Appleby

Horticulture Week Podcast: the wonders of biocontrols and integrated pest management with IPS's Dr Sam Jones

28 January 2022

Peter Donegan, Matthew Appleby

Horticulture Week Podcast: TV garden designer and podcast pioneer Peter Donegan on how he 'loves it when a plan comes together'

20 January 2022

Matthew Appleby and Gwendolyn van Paasschen

Horticulture Week Podcast: Protecting the legacy of John Brookes at Denmans Garden

11 January 2022

Tom Hart Dyke

Horticulture Week Podcast: Planting all over the world with Lullingstone Castle's Tom Hart Dyke

16 December 2021

Ben Raskin and Matthew Appleby

Horticulture Week Podcast: Soil Association's Ben Raskin on woodchip, agroforestry and going peat-free

9 December 2021

Richard Jackson and Matthew Appleby

Horticulture Week Podcast: Industry stalwart Richard Jackson on his horticulture life from Roy Lancaster via QVC to his own range

24 November 2021

Plantsman Adrian Bloom and Horticulture Week editor Matthew Appleby

Horticulture Week Podcast: Legendary plantsman Adrian Bloom

12 November 2021 , By Matthew Appleby

Hannah Powell

Horticulture Week Podcast: 'Using nature to fix a faulty brain' - Hannah Powell of Perrywood Garden centre on mental health at work

3 November 2021

Matthew Appleby, David White and Zehra Zaidi

Horticulture Week Podcast: a rose to remember 18th century Welsh black gardener, John Ystumllyn

21 October 2021

ICL

Horticulture Week Podcast: ICL on growing media and making peat-free work

19 October 2021 , By Matthew Appleby

Presented by ICL UK
YPHA

Horticulture Week Podcast: The future of horticulture - with the Young People in Horticulture Association

12 October 2021

Olivia Chapple and Matthew Appleby

Horticulture Week Podcast: harnessing the therapeutic potential of gardens with Horatio's Gardens' Dr Olivia Chapple

15 September 2021

Steve Harper and Matthew Appleby

Horticulture Week Podcast: peat-free growing media - products, supply, demand and prices - with Southern Trident's Steve Harper

6 September 2021 , By Matthew Appleby

Presented by Southern Trident
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Horticulture Week Podcast: horticultural lighting - trends, benefits and financing with GE Current

27 August 2021

Presented by GE Current

Horticulture Week Podcast: Pennard Plants looks forward to its tomato showcase at Chelsea and an autumn of grow-your-own supply challenges

27 July 2021 , By Matthew Appleby

Horticulture Week Podcast: tackling recruitment challenges - how Countrywide Grounds Maintenance is investing in local communities to help reduce the skills gap

21 July 2021

Horticulture Week Podcast: improving diversity in the landscape industries

16 July 2021

Horticulture Week Podcast: the past, present and future of turf management as SALTEX prepares to return

8 July 2021 , By Christina Taylor

Horticulture Week Podcast: 'Life's not easy being a nurseryman' - Herb 'Queen' Jekka McVicar on how she makes it work

1 July 2021 , By Matthew Appleby

Horticulture Week Podcast: Growing and selling orchids through the pandemic via Brexit and into an uncertain future

24 June 2021 , By Matthew Appleby

Horticulture Week Podcast: How growers can get the best out of adjuvants for their crops

22 June 2021 , By Matthew Appleby

Presented by ICL UK

Horticulture Week Podcast: Marion Regan of Wimbledon tennis strawberry grower Hugh Lowe Farms

16 June 2021 , By Matthew Appleby

Horticulture Week Podcast: Signify on lighting for strawberries

8 June 2021 , By Matthew Appleby

Presented by Signify