331: Mark Gregory

Peter Donegan talks with Mark Gregory, the most medalled RHS builder, and designer, of gardens. In fact Mark has never not won a RHS Chelsea medal. In total, he holds over 90 RHS Chelsea medals, in excess of 35 of them are Gold, 3 personal Gold's as a designer and 1 silver-gilt on Main Avenue and 150 Gardens for The Royal Horticultural Society over 28 years - which roughly equates to 3 years of his working life on that one site.The Sodshow is available in iTunes, all good podcast stores and The Sodshow website. Twitter: @sodshow facebook: The SodshowAt Chelsea 2017 he built 4 gardens. 2 on Main Avenue and 2 Artisan Gardens. They included the RHS Greening Grey Britain garden for Nigel Dunett, the Yorkshire Forward garden for Tracey Foster; the Seedlip Garden for former guest of The Sodshow Catherine Mac Donald and The Poetry Lovers Garden for Fiona Cadwallader. Mark also has a teaching college with (also) former guest of The Sodshow and Chelsea Gold medal winner Andrew Wilson. He is RHS and Kew trained. We talk inspiring the next generation of horts, inspiring the "younger generation", horticulture in the media and what needs to change and a fixation on ageism. We chat getting old, Marks future in garden building, getting it wrong and just how he started in the industry and a work ethic that stays with him to this day. Show Links:web: www.landformconsultants.co.uk facebook:  Landform  Twitter: LandformUK