Mike The Gardener - Gardening Podcast

Join professional gardener, podcaster, broadcaster and garden writer, Mike Palmer, for lively discussions with gardening personalities and experts from the fantastic world of gardening. Look out for Mike's 'Plant Specials' including dahlias, roses & clematis with more to come. You can see & hear more from Mike in his beautiful garden at his popular Instagram account @mike_thegardener. Mike's podcast is sponsored by Natural Grower the supplier of plant-based products for organic & chemical free gardening and houseplants.

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Episodes

Mic The Gardener - Gardening Podcast - Dahlia Special

Who doesn’t love a blooming good dahlia? In this special edition of the Mic the Gardener podcast, Mike chats to Farmer Gracy horticulturalist, Naomi Jones about everything you need to know to grow dazzling dahlias in your green space. Every aspect is covered from what to do when you buy your dahlia tubers, what potting compost to use, how to start them into growth, watering, feeding, pest control and deadheading. And, irrespective of whether you’re a dahlia newbie or a dahlia doyenne, there is a...

Apr 06, 2021•28 min

Mic The Gardener - Gardening Podcast - Sally Nex

In this episode Mike chats to gardener, garden writer and author, Sally Nex about her incredible new book ' How to Garden the Low Carbon Way '. Her new book is packed with brilliant, topical and practical tips to help us in our own green spaces. Which potting compost should we be using? What can we plant to lower our carbon footprint? Are there alternatives to synthetic fertilisers? How can we cut out single-use plastics? In this fascinating episode Sally chats to Mike about the book, her career...

Mar 26, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Mic the Gardener - Gardening Podcast - Katie Rushworth

Mike chats to television presenter, Katie Rushworth of ITV's highly popular garden makeover programme 'Love Your Garden' about making beautiful gardens in the rain, being a jobbing gardener and coarse fishing..., yes, coarse fishing! They also talk about her own family garden makeovers ( see Katie's Instagram for more information ) and her very successful garden consultation business. You can find more information about this at https://katierushworth.com . Also in this episode, Mike takes us for...

Mar 05, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Mic The Gardener - Gardening Podcast - Simon Lycett

Mike talks to awarding winning royal florist extraordinaire, author and presenter Simon Lycett from 'Lycett Towers' in London - check out his website for the most beautiful displays to cheer you through the February Freeze. Mike and Simon explore the stigma experienced identifying as a florist in an all-boys school. Get to the roots of what it is really like to be a florist in lockdown and find out more about plans for Series 2 of Full Bloom, flower friends! As always Mike catches up with profes...

Feb 12, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Gardening New Year Resolutions 2021

In this most welcome New Year special, Mike grabs his unwitting producer Jo to chat through a selection of your 2021 gardening New Year’s resolutions. There are also some great resolutions from some of our friends in the celebrity gardening world. You’ll hear about the origin of the courgette challenge, dreams of ‘no dig’ and so much more.

Jan 22, 2021•36 min

Mic The Gardener - Gardening Podcast - Lia Leendertz

January 2021, Lockdown 3 might be upon us in the UK but we are still tending the soil. Mike meets The Almanac's author Lia Leendertz who warms our feet like a toasty fire with tales of meditation and the journey to being a writer. Dorset gardener Otis reveals a garden designers start-of-year regime.

Jan 22, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Mic The Gardener - Gardening Podcast (pilot) - Tamsin Westhorpe

The first episode of an exciting new podcast from professional gardener and garden designer, Mike Palmer. We join Mike from his beautiful garden in Bournemouth where he has spent most of 2020 sharing his gardening and garden design knowledge on his Instagram. In this pilot episode, Mike is joined by successful author, RHS judge, curator and gardener at Stockton Bury Gardens, Tamsin Westhorpe. They discuss Tamsin’s very first jobs in horticulture, including being an interior landscaper and garden...

Dec 23, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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