November '24 in the Garden

This month on DIG IT Peter Brown and Chris Day discuss the latest news in the world of gardening, what’s on’s and as the winter kicks in, a look at those gardening tasks to keep your garden looking its best this month and beyond. Friday 8th November Final Gardeners’ World programme of the season. 15th November RHS Glow 2024 Rosemoor. 20th November RHS Glow 2024 Harlow Carr Garden 22nd November RHS Glow at RHS Wisley and at RHS Hyde Hall 26th November NGS Annual Lecture ‘Gardening for the future with Fergus Garret, Garden Museum, London. Fergus reveals how vital biodiversity can thrive in anybody’s cultivated garden patch, using evidence gathered from the world-famous garden he looks after. Go in person or available live streamed. Plant mentions: Lotus (water lily), Sea buckthorn, Magnolia, Dianthus, Violas, Wisteria, Picea, Pinus, dog friendly plants, sunflowers including the variety ‘Teddy Bear’, Tulips, Narcissus, Crocus, Alliums, Snowdrops, planting of bare-root hedging, shrubs and trees, Philadelphus, Dogwood, Hazel, Raspberry canes, Strawberry runners, garlic, Padron peppers, Wild service tree (sweets and beer tree), Microgreens, Cress and Amaryllis. Product mentions: Sainsbury’s peat-free mushrooms, electric heron fence for ponds, Woughton Orchard in Milton Keynes, lawn blower, secateurs, loppers, composted bark, autumn lawn food, grease bands for fruit trees, cloches, horticultural fleece and clay pebbles in saucer, News RBG Kew scientists crack down on illegal sale of ornamental plants. Edimentals see rise in popularity. Sainsbury’s becomes first UK supermarket to introduce peat-free mushrooms Nick Hamilton’s new book, The Right Jeans is published. The new Government’s All-Party Parliamentary Gardening and Horticulture Group LibDem MP Sarah Dyke seeks to speed up ban on peat farming with 10-minute bill Roger Ward from Golden Grove Nurseries champions the use of slow growing and compact forms of conifers in new build gardens Monty Don to design a dog-friendly garden at Chelsea 2025 in conjunction with the RHS and BBC Radio 2. National Trust appoints Sheila Das as Head of Gardens and Parks. Will Armitage appointed as the new HTA President. Beechgrove Garden presenter Jim McColl dies aged 89. Capability Brown’s Berrington Hall gets a floral makeover including a wisteria walk. Climate revamp for Great Fountain Garden at Hampton Court Palace. RHS issues call for urban planners to take garden provision more seriously. Otters raiding garden ponds becomes a problem in Cumbria. The Orchard Project celebrates 15 years restoring 700 public orchards. Sunflower trials at RHS Hyde Hall’s Floral Fantasia. North Wales bid to bring back rare ‘sweets and beer’ tree. DIG IT Top 5: Top selling Herbs of the year No5 Coriander, No4 Curly Parsley, No3 Chives, No2 Common Rosemary and at the top spot Garden Mint (spear mint). Our special thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music.