“What is a Purdom?”

Alice Hough’s diary is at the heart of Penn’s Viburnum plant story

A bumper crop of plant stories!

We return to the magical garden at the Manor in Hemingford Grey.

Vicky Meads has a specialist Hosta nursery. She has won Gold Medals at 3 RHS shows this year including the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. She gives us a behind the scenes look at showing your Hostas at flower shows. On the website is her guide to growing Hostas successfully.

The Spider plant or Chlorophytum comosum is found in homes the world over. A house plant that survives if you sometimes forget to water it and whose 'babies' get shared with friends and family. Jane Perrone looked after the ones in her primary school library. Dr Ernst van Jaarsveld has gone plant hunting for them.

The Thousand Year Old Garden Inside The Secret Garden at Lambeth Palace. Former Head Gardener and now also author, Nick Stewart Smith talks to the Our Plant Stories podcast about the Lambeth Palace garden which features in his new book. He shares his thoughts on gardening not just in a 1000 year old garden but in all our gardens, working with nature.

Propagation - learn how to take a greenwood cutting from a Magnolia plus advice on which Magnolia trees and shrubs are best in small gardens and spaces.

Our Plant Stories features Camellias; japonica, reticulata, amplexicaulus, sasanqua and 2 horticulturalists in Australia and the UK discuss the history and the merits of this plant.

Why are Fig trees so precious to some gardeners that they’ll go to great lengths to protect them from the cold?