The Ideal Gardens Podcast
by Jeremy
A new horticultural and gardening podcast by Jeremy Price who will be joined by his partner Trudi to ask the questions everyone wants to know the answers to, this podcast is for anyone who would like an ideal garden, or gain more garden knowledge. Based in Gloucestershire the shows will have a regional element to them if discussing seasonal weather and the local climate but the hints and tips can be enjoyed by all listeners! Jeremy will be sharing expertise gained over his 30 year career in horticulture which includes working on award winning Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Show gardens and his own Medal winning garden at Malvern Flower Show. The main focus of his career has been plant-based focusing on garden development of borders and all types of planting techniques and pruning skills. The Ideal Gardens Podcast will have monthly podcast releases with hints and tips suitable for small gardens to large gardens and is aimed at listeners who think they are not a garde
Episodes
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Positive Gardening in a Changing Climate.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk about our changing climate, and this years UK heatwave and ways we can help our gardens recover and be better prepared. Support the show Join us on a monthly basis for hints and tips on how to have the Ideal Garden.
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OUT & ABOUT, Ideal Gardens @ Compton Verney
Send us Fan Mail In this months Podcast, we are out and about, and visiting one of Capability Browns gardens and its grand house, set in Warwickshire in the UK, we talk about the grounds, and how Lancelot, "Capability Brown" was a English garden designer and architect, born, 1716 and died 1783…
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Creating a show garden at the NEC 2026
Send us Fan Mail This solo episode, this month, is all about my experience at this years Gardeners World Live 26 at the Birmingham NEC, and my show garden that we created, to tell the story about living with Dyslexia, told by plants and colour, about how I was diagnosed as a child, to how it...
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Creating a wild flower area, or fake it, until you make it.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk about starting off and maintaining a wild flower area, less mowing and more long grass areas for flowers and wildlife, we will give you some advise about buying plug plants and seeds to get you started on a low maintenance garden. Also, we give you more...
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Seed Sowing, good beginnings for great gardens.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss all things seed sowing and propagators, should we use our last years seeds?, or just buy new and fresh, for a strong start to the growing season, we also talk about propagators, from a simple budget friendly, to top of the range units, and the…
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Winter Gardening, Thriving in the slow season.
Send us Fan Mail In our 10th episode, we talk about thriving in the winter season, as Winter is the time to rest, a time to slow down and a time to understand and take note of the up and coming season in the garden, its about getting out in the garden and educating yourself of the tasks ahead for...
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Understanding your soil conditions.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk about garden soils, compost and all things earthy, because with out it, we wouldn't be able to grow anything, so we need to look after it and understand it. We also talk about dry areas, wet areas, and damp areas in the garden. Also ideas on how to work...
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Extending late Summer colour in the garden
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk about, extending late Summer colour in the garden, we also talk about bulb planting and how to naturalise bulbs in long grass areas and planting up and protecting bulbs in pots and containers from wildlife. and explaining all about how to Lasagne layer...
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Top tips for colour in the garden, Continued {2 of 2}
Send us Fan Mail in our episode number 7, we continue to talk about colour in the garden, so this is 2 of a 2 part series, in part 1, we discuss different colour pallets, one colour borders, to hot and cool colours, in this part, we are going to talk about continuing that colour into late Summer...
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Top Tips for colourful gardens
Send us Fan Mail This is a two part episode all about colour in the garden. In this episode we will be talking about introducing different colour palettes such as bold bright shades and cool pastels. Also, single colour borders such as white, which needs more than just flowers to have a strong...
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Great garden takeaways - What to look for when visiting open gardens.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss what you can takeaway from visiting gardens that are open to the public. We look at planting tips, how to relate planted borders from large gardens to a small garden environment, and how to recreate ideas that you can use to give your garden more style...
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Great gardening with good tools.
Send us Fan Mail After our short break, we are back, with a new episode, in this episode we are talking about, garden tools, and using the right tools for the right job, from spades to secateurs, and gloves to rakes, gardening can be made fun and easy with the correct kit, so if you are just...
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Energizing your garden for Spring
Send us Fan Mail In our third episode, we talk about, energizing your garden ready for Spring, as you start to venture back out into the garden after the dark and cold days of Winter, we start to see the garden springing into new life and get new ideas on how to reshape and reenergizing the…
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Reshaping your garden, top tips for pruning.
Send us Fan Mail Shrub and tree pruning can can be a bit scary for some people, so in this episode we talk all things pruning, from apple trees, wisterias, and the difference between hard and light pruning, we also talk about, the one third method, which is a pruning technique for tackling...
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Finding Positivity in the Garden during the Winter.
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first episode on this brand new podcast about gardening. Winter can be seen as the end of the season of gardening and while its a bit cold at the minute we have some quick and easy tips that will help you feel more positive when you look out of the window. Put the...
About this show
A new horticultural and gardening podcast by Jeremy Price who will be joined by his partner Trudi to ask the questions everyone wants to know the answers to, this podcast is for anyone who would like an ideal garden, or gain more garden knowledge. Based in Gloucestershire the shows will have a regional element to them if discussing seasonal weather and the local climate but the hints and tips can be enjoyed by all listeners!
Jeremy will be sharing expertise gained over his 30 year career in horticulture which includes working on award winning Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Show gardens and his own Medal winning garden at Malvern Flower Show. The main focus of his career has been plant-based focusing on garden development of borders and all types of planting techniques and pruning skills.
The Ideal Gardens Podcast will have monthly podcast releases with hints and tips suitable for small gardens to large gardens and is aimed at listeners who think they are not a garde
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Jeremy