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Loving Your Garden - Better Gardening PodcastHot Tips for Cool Gardens - With Multi-Award Winning Designer David StevensSend us a textAs the sun turns up the heat, so do the challenges in our gardens. In this summer edition of the Loving Your Garden podcast, I’m joined by our resident horticulturist John Stirland and award-winning garden designer David Stevens for a lively and practical chat about gardening through the warmer months.We explore clever ways to keep your plants happy during hot, dry spells, how to water wisely, and what to plant right now for colour and resilience. Whether you’re battling parched borders or planning a su...2025-06-2233 min
Loving Your Garden - Better Gardening PodcastBetter Gardening tips in 2025...With Two Badly Disguised SantasSend us a textIt's become a thing for multi-award-winning garden designer David Stevens to drop in over Christmas with our resident horticulturist John Stirland over a glass of sherry for a gardening chinwag. The result is always educational as these two stalwarts trade wisdom and a few laughs. The wisdom includes suggestions for Winter interest in an all-year-round garden, some garden design tips, a discussion about gifts for the gardener who has everything, and the one garden tool that neither of our experts could do without.To watch the video of our podcast, visit o...2025-01-0121 min
Loving Your Garden - Better Gardening PodcastEight Steps To Your Dream Garden With David StevensSend us a text11 Times RHS Chelsea Gold Medallist (and LYG member), David Stevens, has designed a few gardens in his long career (understatement). Enough to earn him 26 RHS medals and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Garden Designers. In this short video (link below), David outlines 8 key steps to consider before embarking on a garden makeover that will save you time, effort, and tears. He finishes by outlining a postal design service* that makes his knowledge and expertise surprisingly accessible. *PromoDavid Stevens Website: https://david-stevens.co.uk/David Stevens Email: gardens@david-stevens.co.ukYou can watch this...2024-08-2714 min
Loving Your Garden - Better Gardening PodcastThree Top Gardeners Drop In For A Festive ChatSend us a textYou'll need to check out the Loving Your Garden site to see our festive guests in their Santa gear but you can hear the fun in our season finale as horticulturist, gardening writer, broadcaster and RHS judge, Martin Fish, and multi-award-winning garden designer, David Stevens join John Stirland and LYG founder Rod Whiting for an end of season chat over a tipple or two.Have a pen and paper handy as we discuss a busy gardening year, highlights & failures (yes, professionals have them too), and plans...2023-12-2943 minLoving Your Garden - Better Gardening PodcastA Summer Catch-up With Three Gardening Stars Plus The Latest On The UK Peat Ban and A Look At Composite DeckingSend us a textIt's not every day you get to chat with one of the UK's top plantswomen, a renowned garden designer and the Gandalf of gardening but that was my pleasure when Rosy Hardy, David Stevens and John Stirland all gathered by Rosy's plant stand at the Belvoir Castle Flower and Garden Show. It was a delightful conversation about Summer gardens that I'm sure you'll find informative and entertaining.There's also some bonus clips from this year's annual Glee Garden and Leisure Show at the Birmingham NEC where I took a closer look a...2023-07-1919 min
Loving Your Garden - Better Gardening PodcastAll Year Garden Design With Professor David StevensSend us a textStep away from the Garden Centre! Well, just for a moment as multi-award-winning garden designer and LYG member David Stevens gives you some valuable tips on using colour, texture, and shape of both foliage and flowers to keep your garden looking its best all through the year, including Winter.Once again David is a rich source of knowledge as he joins resident horticulturist John Stirland and LYG founder Rod Whiting for a look ahead to the gardening year now that the long Winter is finally over.You'll need a notebook as...2023-03-2145 min
Loving Your Garden - Better Gardening PodcastA Masterclass In Garden Design From One Of The Best - Professor David StevensSend us a textIt's always a pleasure to meet and talk with David Stevens and one never leaves his company without a strong desire to quickly write down some of the gems he's reeled off about garden design. He has more RHS medals than I can count plus a host of other awards, recognising more than fifty years of excellence in horticultural design.For this week's LYG Live, we thought it would be useful to have a case study for David and John Stirland to discuss and we're grateful to one of our new members...2022-08-1539 min