Gardening

The Lord Marshmoreton who made intermittent appearances in London, who lunched among bishops at the Athenaeum Club without exciting remark, was a correctly dressed gentleman whom no one would have suspected of covering his sturdy legs in anything but the finest cloth.

But if you will glance at your copy of Who's Who, and turn up the M's, you will find in the space allotted to the Earl the words, Hobby, Gardening, to which, in a burst of modest pride, his lordship has added, Awarded first prize for hybrid teas, Temple Flower Show, 1911.

The words tell their own story.

Lord Marshmoreton was the most enthusiastic amateur gardener in a land of enthusiastic amateur gardeners.

This week, it's the turn of Wisley's James McDonnell, who tells us about his bulb choice, Ipheion, otherwise known as the spring starflower.

And we'll round off the podcast with some of your gardening questions answered this week with help from my RHS colleague, Melissa Mabbertt.

All this coming up on Gardening with the RHS with me, Gareth Richards.

[gentle music] Now, I feel a bit like a broken record talking about how hot and dry the summer of 2026 was or still is for some of us, given half the chance.

And perhaps the reason I sound like a broken record is because so many records were broken in terms of temperature and lack of rainfall.

You are listening to the most informationally packed hour of garden-focused radio in the country and on the internet with your host, husband and wife team, Joey and Holly Baird.

This is the Gardening with Joey and Holly Radio Show.

And welcome to another edition of the Gardening with Joey and Holly Radio Show.

Happy to have you along.

Thank you for taking time out of your day to join us for a little bit.

When we return, we're going to go over some canning mistakes that you might be already making and didn't know you were.

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You're tuned into the Gardening with Joey and Holly radio show.

So for our final feature this week, it's Wisley's Claudia Connell talking about her number one bulb, the martagon lily.

And we'll round off the podcast with some of your gardening questions answered, this week with help from my RHS colleague Melissa Mabberitt.

All this coming up on Gardening with the RHS, with me, Gareth Richards.

I feel like pollinators have been quite a hot topic this summer.

Lots of us have noticed unusual things like hummingbird hawk moths.

Ah, well, it definitely

sounds like you like gardening.

Yeah, look at this picture of my garden.

Everything is at different stages.

But if you look at those flowers, they've already got some buds.

I just can't wait to see them bloom.

你正在收听的是BBC英语教学制作的你问我答节目。 在本期节目中,我们正在学习和Gardening原意有关的英语表达。 We've got quite a few gardening words here, so let's go through them.

Yes, for a start, some of them are related to different stages of growing a plant.

Grab this book off the pedestal.

It does not look like the Necromancer's Guide to Gardening, as well as what the book had transformed into before Ark had taken it.

This looks like a very old journal of sorts.

Pattern pages...