Mic The Gardener - Gardening Podcast - The Winter Garden at Harold Hillier with Fran Clifton

Hello and welcome back to the Mic the Gardener - Gardening Podcast with me, your host, Mike Palmer. In this week's episode I pay a visit to the Harold Hillier Winter Garden near Romsey, United Kingdom. It's a stunning garden year-round, but the winter garden is beautifully planted with trees, shrubs, perennials and bulbs which provide amazing winter colour, scent, texture and all-round interest. I chat with Head Gardener, Fran Clifton about: What makes a great winter garden What plants to use Plants for colour, scent and texture Great planting combinations We also chat about her role as Head Gardener, her career, her own garden and much, much more. For more information about the Harold Hillier Gardens, click on the link to their website - https://www.hants.gov.uk/thingstodo/hilliergardens. As always, thanks for listening to this episode. If you're new to the podcast, do check out the previous episodes from the first two series. There are some cracking interviews, plant specials and much more. If you've enjoyed this episode, don't forget to follow/subscribe and please do leave a review with your podcast provider. And finally, I love hearing from all of you, so please do contact me if you have any messages, questions or ideas for future episodes. You can email me at the shows email [email protected] or follow me on my Instagram page @mike_thegardener where you can message me directly. See you next week. Mike