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The Gardener Ben Podcast

The Gardener Ben Podcast, honest conversations from the heart of the garden. Join Ben as he explores the world of gardening with real people sharing real experiences – from horticulture pros to passionate home gardeners, and sometimes stories far beyond the garden gate. Each episode is anchored with seasonal insights and updates from North Lodge, giving you a window into ongoing projects, tips, and observations in real time. Whether it’s English roses, modern cottage gardens, or everyday gardening

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S5E4 Dans Plants

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2026/10/05

S5 E4 of @the_gardenerben_podcast is available for you to listen to now on YouTube Spotify Amazon and Apple MusicThis week I have the pleasure in bringing to you a conversation with Dan from @dansplantsuk who I’ve had the pleasure in bumping into several times during the show season of 2026 his captivating use of colour form and texture really inspired me to bring you this conversation and I hope that once you’ve listened to the episode you head across his channels and show his account some loveThe

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S5E3 Manoj Malde

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2026/09/28

S5 E3 of @the_gardenerben_podcast is available for you to listen to now, featuring a wonderful conversation with award-winning garden designer, TV presenter, author and RHS ambassador @manoj_malde_garden_design.Who I bumped into at Chelsea 2026. Together, we formed a plan to bring you this lovely conversation during our chat. He shares with us how he approaches design, building meaningful relationships with his clients, and walks us through his process, and extends the offer of help to other, less

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S5E1 Caley Brothers

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2026/09/21

Series 5 and episode 2 of @the_gardenerben_podcast podcast features a conversation with Jodie and Lorraine, fondly known as the Mushroom Sisters of @caleybrothers.I have had the pleasure of bumping into them several times during the 2026 show season. Their simply jaw-dropping displays of their beautiful homegrown mushroom kits are enough to stop you in your tracks and make your mouth water. Hugely passionate about the food that they grow and eat, they supply home-growing mushroom kits, have written

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S5E1 Winchester Cathedral, Reverend Canon Tess

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2026/09/14

The Gardener Ben Podcast returns for season five and episode one for a very special episode featuring the Reverend Canon Dr Tess Lawton, Canon Missioner of @winchestercathedral.For a conversation around the Wild Festival of Flowers and Nature, hosted by Winchester Cathedral from the 15th to the 19th of September, the event sees floral installations packed into this incredibly impressive, humbling and beautiful space, with themes spiralling around biodiversity, well-being, sustainability, climate,

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S4E9 Open Garden Special

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2026/06/22

S4E9 of The Gardener Ben Podcast is streaming now.This week is a very special episode, not featuring very much of me. In fact, the episode has been brought together by some of you who visited the garden during our open weekend a few weeks ago.The episode has been recorded by my husband, Mark, and captures some of your thoughts and impressions of the garden here at North Lodge, featuring:And others.The podcast will be taking a short break but will be back with you on Monday, 6th July.The Gardener Ben

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S4E8 Joan Darwent

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2026/06/15

S4E8 of The Gardener Ben Podcast is streaming now.On this week’s episode, I talk you through deadheading your roses and how to deal with pest and disease problems after the recent huge amount of cold and wet weather we’ve had here in the UK.It also features a personal chat with @hoover_who_better, who, after the sad loss of his mother Joan, decided to mark her passing and celebrate her life by naming a brand-new rose after her.Launched at the Chelsea Flower Show, the rose has recently gone through a

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S4E7 Dakic garden design

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2026/06/08

S4E7 of the Gardener Ben podcast is streaming nowThis week I have the absolute pleasure in bringing you a conversation with husband and wife gardening duo Bryony and Jonathan from @dakicgardendesign.After the huge success at BBC Gardeners’ Spring Fair in Hampshire in 2025, this year they’re undertaking a massive project with a huge exciting garden installation at BBC Gardeners’ World Live, which takes place between the 18th and 21st of June.Their design is packed full of tropical foliage, texture

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S4E6 Farmer Bailey Plugs

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2026/06/01

This week on The Gardner Ben Podcast, you will have to excuse my slightly hoarse and snotty tones, having had the garden here at North Lodge open to the public over the weekend. I’ve spoken to quite literally hundreds of people and wanted to extend my personal thanks to absolutely everybody who made the trip out to support our local good causes and look around the garden.On The Gardner Ben Podcast this week, I have the pleasure of bringing you a conversation with Thomas and Bailey from @, who supply

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S4E5 The Messy Allotmenteer

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2026/05/25

S4E5 of The Gardener Ben Podcast has lots of details about the new plants launched at the Chelsea Flower Show 2026 and features Kate @themessyallotmenteer, who from the 18th to the 21st of June can be found exhibiting her brand-new garden concept at BBC Gardeners’ World Live.Kate joined me for a relaxed conversation about the garden just a few weeks ago, and I really hope that you enjoy hearing all about it.The Gardener Ben Podcast is proudly brought to you in association with @peterbealesroses,

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S4S4 Gwen from Plant Heritage

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2026/05/18

S4 E4 of the Gardener Ben Podcast features a conversation with Gwen Hines, CEO of @plantheritage. Together with @theplantingdesigncollective, they are creating a garden for the very first time at RHS Chelsea 2026 called ‘The Missing Collector’s Garden’. Plant Heritage are responsible for managing the UK’s plant collections, and if you would like to get involved in any aspect with regards to the National Collections of Plants, please do make sure you get in touch with them or take a look at their

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S4E3 Neil Duncan Rose King

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2026/05/11

S4E3 of the Gardener Ben podcast features @neilduncan40roseking, who is a real champion amongst rose growers. He’s been growing and exhibiting for many years and, alongside his wife, travels the length and breadth of the UK showing his beautiful roses. So, if you have an interest in how you can become involved in exhibiting your roses, take a listen to the conversation I recorded with Neil just a few weeks ago.The Gardener Ben podcast is proudly brought to you in association with @peterbealesroses,

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S4E2 Plants & Minds

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2026/05/04

This week on the Gardener Ben Podcast, I’m joined by Andy and Richard, team members from Chestnut Nurseries, along with their sister site, Cherry Tree Nurseries, based in Bournemouth, and Paul. They are run and operated by the charity Plants and Minds.Through horticulture, they offer meaningful occupation and employment to people who have suffered long-term mental health problems, using the therapeutic benefits of gardening in a safe and encouraging environment.Set up years before its time, it’s a

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S4E1 That Glasgow Witch.

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2026/04/27

Welcome back to the @the_gardenerben_podcast. It only feels like about five minutes since we wrapped up season three, but welcome along to season four.We are out the gate with a really interesting and wonderful conversation recorded with @thatglasgowwitch just a few weeks ago.Geo started sharing her craft on TikTok and Instagram as a way of connecting with her daughter remotely, by creating a video library of mindful practices, grounding techniques, and rituals which could be referred back to and

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S3E20 That’s a Wrap - Spoiler Alert

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2026/03/02

And just like that, season three of The Gardener Ben Podcast is all wrapped up, concluding with what has now become a tradition: a conversation between myself and @mark_hamilton_anderson.There are now 55 episodes for you to catch up on and listen to at any time. You can stream the podcast on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and Amazon Music.The Gardener Ben Podcast is brought to you proudly in association with @peterbealesroses, winner of 30 Chelsea gold medals and creating timeless roses since 1968. Go

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S3E3 Paige’s Story - Recovery

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2026/02/23

S3E19 of The Gardner Ben Podcast sees me sharing with you not only a very personal and relatable conversation with Paige (not her real name), but also some incredibly personal and painful parts of my own journey.Paige is a recovering alcoholic and, in the hope of reaching just one pair of ears that may need to hear her story, wanted to share her journey to recovery with you all.Personally, I wanted to leave the episode completely unedited, intact, and exactly as it was recorded, so I confess it’s

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S3E18 National Chrysanthemum Society (Neil)

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2026/02/16

S3E18 of The Gardener Ben Podcast features a conversation with Neil from @national_chrysanthemum_society.Neil shares how his passion for chrysanthemums started at a very young age, how the gifting of just a few plants sparked a lifelong love of growing, and how it led to his involvement with the National Chrysanthemum Society.This is a group of plants I have tried growing in the past with limited success. Still making up one of the largest cut flower crops grown worldwide, I’ve decided to give this

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S3E17 Carnivorous Plants with Richard Grows

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2026/02/09

S3E17 of The Gardener Ben Podcast is available for you to listen to and download now. This week, I have the pleasure of being joined by one of my all-time favourite Instagram accounts I’ve been following, @richardgrows, for a very long time now. His passion for plants simply oozes from his account. He has absolutely massive collections of weird and wonderful-looking carnivorous and tropical plants, which is not a subject I know a massive amount about. I hope that you enjoy our conversation and that

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S3 E16 Seed Ball

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2026/02/02

Episode 16 of season three of The Gardener Ben Podcast is available for you to listen to now. This week, I’m joined by Ana, co-founder of @seed_ball.With a love of wildflowers and a background firmly set in conservation, Seedball set out to make wildflowers easy to grow and have since diversified into herbs and salads, wrapping seeds in a mixture of clay infused with chilli to protect them from insect damage and make them easy to grow just about anywhere.Listen to the full episode on Spotify, Apple,

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S3E15 Hiller Garden Centre, Charles Carr, Head of...

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2026/01/26

On S3E15 of The Gardener Ben Podcast, I get to speak to Charles Carr, Head of Production at @hilliergardencentres.Home-growing all of their stock, supplying 22 garden centres and their online store with peat-free grown stock 50 weeks of the year, Charles and I explored his journey into the world of horticulture and the challenges faced by the garden centre group going fully peat-free. We discussed how some plants that we have been used to purchasing have really struggled with the changeover, while

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S3E14 Nicola Soulful Wisdom Academy

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2026/01/19

S3E 14 of the Gardener Ben Podcast is about mindfulness, self, and the quest to be present. It features a conversation with Nicola from @soulfulwisdomacademy.Nicola is a shamanic dragon priestess who I have visited several times for Reiki healing. It’s no coincidence that this particular podcast episode is scheduled, as it marks one year exactly since I visited Nicola for the first time.At the end of 2024 into 2025, I was really struggling with my mental health. I was incredibly depressed, lost, and

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