Pots & Trowels The Gardening Podcast

We're meeting Rob Brett, curator of RHS Wisley, one of the most prestigious jobs in horticulture! Plus, we're answering your gardening questions - loads of which continue to be about lawn care! - and, Tulip Mania, how RHS Wisley have planted thousands of tulips to create and amazing spring flower display!

Tulip Mania, RHS Wisley Curator & Lawn Care Questions Answered
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As well as slugs that we need to control, there are useful slugs as well! - Martin and Jill visit their friends Paula & Steve at Floral Media and take some gardening questions about soil, slugs, tulips and magnolia, plus Jill shares a recipe for rhubarb tiramisu!

Recipe Link:
https://www.martinfish.com/blog/rhubarbtirimasu/

Slugs that are Good for the Garden? Soil & Mulch Advice, Rhubarb Tiramisu & Growing Cut Flowers with Floral Media
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We're answering listeners' questions, we've got a Canadian guest on with a royal connection and there are all the usual weekly gardening tasks. Mary Kelava joins us to talk about how her Sandringham connection as well as to give us some insights into modern flower meanings from her book 'a bouquet of words' https://marykelava.com/

Chop & Drop Craze, Urgent Veggie Planting & Royally Connected Canadian Guest'S New Flower Book!
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We're talking moss after one of our recent short videos on lawn moss control went viral!

Martin's tips include lawncare and dogwood pruning and we're tackling listeners' questions on tomato watering and rose planting, plus, what's budding?!

Sean reveals he made a spontaneous plum tree purchase and there's the usual gardening chat.

This episode was originally titled: Moss, Love it or Loathe it? - Climbing Rose Q, Dogwood Pruning, Lawn Care & Spontaneous Plum Tree Purchase!

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A rose that grows well but has few flowers, a blackcurrant that needs some TLC - Martin gives his valuable advice to our listeners on gardening dilemmas. plus we meet Kirsten Van Graan of the RHS's Lindley Library where we find that a horticultural library has more treasures than books alone!

Videos mentioned:

Veggie Patch Prep: https://youtu.be/8iDOCOQ_AY0

This episode was previously titled:
Why is my Rose not Flowering? Lacklustre Blackcurrant Question & Library of Horticulture
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