Gardeners' World 2025 Recap: Ep 9

This episode we discuss the virtues of chaos gardening, how Sweetpea makes her stinky fertiliser, supramolecular plastics, blue sausage fruit, and the dangers of Artemisia absinthium - mostly a concern if you’re in the vicinity of any French impressionists.

Sue Kent and Adam Frost present Gardeners' World 2025, episode 9 this week from RHS Malvern Spring Festival. The show gardens featured are:

Garden of the Wind, Yun Sunmi & Lu Wenjuan
St Godwald’s Retreat, Marc Harbourne-Bessant
The Diamond Way, Luke Gunner
Kitchen Garden, Jon Wheatley
The Hierarchy of Plants, Kate Mason
The Sleep in Beauty Garden, Ian McBain
Dibleys' Modern Garden Room, Lynne Dibley
Contemporary Living/A Modern Retreat, Botanical Interior Design
The Sensory Sanctuary, Jonathan Balchandani & Mohammed Bhula
Biosis: Mode of Life, Humble-Bee Gardeners
The Rain Garden, John Howlett
Greening Maindee Gateway Garden, Emily Crowley-Wroe

We meet Stella Exley from Hare Spring Cottage Plants and Kate Mason from Kate Mason Garden Designs , we also hear from Dan from Dan's plants, as well as his Grandma Lilly. Finally Rachel de Thame chats to Philip Harkness from The Harkness Rose Company to find out about the Rosa ‘Catherine’s Rose’.

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Chaos Gardening

https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/article/what-is-chaos-gardening

Roualeyn Fuchsias

https://www.roualeynfuchsias.co.uk/

Jurassic Plants

https://jurassicplants.co.uk

Plantagogo

https://www.plantagogo.com

Potash Nursery