Roots

Host Jo Whiley spends time with the one and only Alan Titchmarsh at RHS Garden Wisley chatting about early memories such as walking through sweet peas with his grandfather as well as his amazing career in horticulture that spans over 60 years!Alan is also joined by Senior Plant Pathologist Jassy Drakulic who discusses a lesser known subject with him... Fungi!RHS Roots is our new twice monthly visual podcast, available on YouTube and all podcast platforms.New episodes drop the first and third Friday of the month.For more content like this please leave us a review.Wacth this Episode now on YouTube - https://youtu.be/VL3ExDNI7f0?si=XurFeAzqmgPbsYyDWatch Episode 1 with actor Richard E Grant: https://youtu.be/H2dtyVere5M Watch Episode 2 with RHS Ambassador Dame Mary Berry: https://youtu.be/d7RkSYLSc0Q Watch Episode 3 with actor Dame Judi Dench - https://youtu.be/kO1exoFgDmk

RHS Roots Episode 3 is here! Host Jo Whiley spends some time with national treasure Dame Judi Dench in her garden, to chat about how all the plants and trees there bring her solace and remind her of loved ones no longer with us.Dame Judi also shares a couple of her favourite Shakespeare's sonnets featuring plants and nature, and is joined by an old friend, Tony Kirkham, who presents her with an RHS Recommended: Award of Garden Merit tree to add to her already impressive collection.RHS Roots is our new twice monthly visual podcast on YouTube, also available on all podcast platforms. New episodes drop the first and third Friday of the month.For more content like this please leave a review.Watch this Episode: https://youtu.be/kO1exoFgDmkWatch Episode 1 with actor Richard E Grant: https://youtu.be/H2dtyVere5MWatch Episode 2 with RHS Ambassador Dame Mary Berry: https://youtu.be/d7RkSYLSc0Q

RHS Roots is a twice monthly video podcast, giving you a sneak peek into the gardens of some of the nation’s best loved cultural figures and horticulturists. Hosted by RHS Ambassador, radio DJ, and keen gardener Jo Whiley, the podcast provides unfettered access to our guests' gardens, or to gardens that are important to them, where they explain how these green spaces reflect their careers, passions and family life.In this second episode, Jo explores the garden of one of the UK's most loved and well known cooks - Dame Mary Berry.An RHS Ambassador and keen gardener, Dame Mary showcases her beautiful garden, and talks about her favourite rose, the trials she's been doing in her vegetable patch, and how her love of gardening has grown over the years. But does she love it more than cooking?For more content like this please leave us a review!Watch the visual podcast on YouTube - https://youtu.be/d7RkSYLSc0Q

Introducing Roots...A new twice monthly video podcast, offering a sneak peak into the gardens of, or those important to, some of the nation’s best loved actors, comedians, chefs and horticulturists. Roots will explore how gardens can tell our life stories; the highs and the lows, the plants people love and the plants they’re not so keen on. Hosted by the charity’s ambassador, radio DJ, and keen gardener Jo Whiley the half hour podcasts provide unfettered access to contributor’s gardens who explain how their tended spaces reflect their careers, passions and family life or a potted history of their gardening experience and skills in their favourite public space.The first in the ongoing series features Richard E Grant from his South West London home. A keen perfumer Richard introduces his evergreen garden inspired by a childhood in Eswatini and set around old set props from multiple blockbuster films and an unmissable sculpture of his childhood idol.Serving as a space for multiple generations of the family to relax and play the garden has hosted weddings and all-night A-list parties.Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/H2dtyVere5M