HortWeek Podcast

Feb 03 2025 200 ep. 22 mins 60
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Welcome to the HortWeek Podcast where we bring you news and views on the most important topics of the day for UK horticulture professionals. For more visit https://www.hortweek.co.uk/podcasts.
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Plant exporting masterclass from IPM Essen

Feb 03 2025 24 mins  
HortWeek spoke toa range of industry experts at IPM Essen trade show 2025 on how to export.Andy Jeanes of Guernsey Clematis says planning, procedure and relationships with customs and shipping agents and phyto inspectors are the keys to successful exporting.The USA could become an issue. Soiless plants are air freighted to the US but there are concerns about 25% Trump imp

Balancing perfect pitches and sustainable practises with Stuart Mackley from Fulham Football Club

Jan 31 2025 20 mins  
On this week’s HortWeek Podcast Stuart Mackley, head of grounds for Fulham Football Club's home ground at Motspur Park, explains how he found a career in groundscare through a love of football. As well as explaining what it is like at Fulham in the lead up to matches, Mackley relates what the team get up to in the off season which he says is “our busiest period…the most

Should plant perfection win awards at any cost? with Darren Everest and Jonathan Sheppard

Jan 24 2025 20 mins  
Cosmos and hollyhocks national collection holder Jonathan Sheppard and dahlia and sweet pea grower Darren Everest discuss whether flower show judges should reward homegrown, sustainable plants, rather than give medals for uniformity.Everest said at RHS shows you compete for medals and not against other growers as you would at a sweet pea show. But the public "want to

Silvohorticulture with Ben Raskin and Andy Dibben

Jan 17 2025 19 mins  
Ben raskin and Andy Dibben have written Silvohorticulture, A Grower's Guide To Integrating Trees Into Crops published in January 2025 by Chelsea Green Publishing.Raskin is head of horticulture and agroforestry for the Soil Association and Dibben is head grower at Abbey Home Farms in Gloucestershire.They say interactions between trees and crops is an under-investigated are

How to excel in a head gardener interview with Alan Sargent

Jan 10 2025 29 mins  
Having been in the landscape industry for over 53 years Alan Sargent is regularly commissioned to either take part in, or organise job interviews and recruit new senior and head gardeners.On this week’s HortWeek Podcast Sargent takes us through some real life questions produced by himself for a recent interview for a head gardener. Beginning with advice on what to wear and bring

Carnivorous peat-free plants pioneer Sean Higgs

Dec 20 2024 29 mins  
Sean Higgs, of Floralive, is the foremost authority on peat-free cultivation of carnivorous plants. In this HortWeek Podcast he discusses his path growing peat-free plants which grow in peat in the wild,and the future of the houseplant market.After the bounce delived by the John Lewis 2023 Christmas venus flytrap advert he relates how that has continued to make the p

Peat, private equity garden retail ownership and BCPs among big issues for 2025, says new HTA president Will Armitage

Dec 13 2024 16 mins  
New HTA president Will Armitage started his career at The Barton Grange Group at Woodford Garden Centre before joining family business Armitage & Sons (Seeds) where he eventually became joint managing director.He was chair of the Garden Centre Association from 2014 to 2016 and says the big difference between now and then are the costs of employing people, which have risen 10% a

Up and coming TV garden makeover star Chris Hull

Dec 06 2024 19 mins  
Chris Hull, one of the stars of BBC One's Garden Rescue, is a rising gardening star, working with Charlie Dimmock and Alan Titchmarsh as the new face of garden makeovers.He got his first gardening job was when he was 15 at a country house hotel in Devon, and studied at Duchy College and for a garden design degree at Sparsholt College. Hull believes schools' thinking about hort

Get Children Growing with inspirational horticulturist Ross Dyke

Nov 29 2024 22 mins  
Crop technician Ross Dyke has a new project called Get Children Growing. He's a Plant Pod host and works at Bonterre CIC alternative education establishment near Worcester, teaching horticulture skills. An unassuming networker, he is also studying at Pershore College and is a Colegrave Seabrook and IPPS scholar.He left school at 14 and worked in various jobs before moving to Webbs

Finding the trees to survive the future, with Kevin Martin head of tree collections at RBG Kew

Nov 22 2024 23 mins  
In the hot summer of 2022, RBG Kew lost more than 400 trees. By July 2024, Kew announced that it believed over 50% of its trees could be at risk by 2090 due to environmental changes due to climate change.This week's guest is Kevin Martin, head of tree collections at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and he joined the HortWeek Podcast to relate the research Kew has done that led i