as much as i enjoy the podcast, I do hope you return to doing videos from the gardens, the green house or the potting shed again... I really miss those.

Thanks for this. Have referred to it a number of times.

Thank you both for another episode of planty joy! I can recommend minature Iris ‘Forest light’ and ‘Ditto’, both from Darcy & Everest.

Love to talk about plants. You are the best.

Super, super, super. Love the plant chat. Wish I lived nearer to your garden Mr Gray, the alpine troughs look splendid. Thanks, thanks, thanks. 😊

Love this Podcast, it is a favourite 🌷

What, no snowdrops ? LOL

Never mind the plants that’s a Contagious smile 😃.

Such a joy to watch this on a cold Jan evening

Happy Christmas and all the best for 2025. Looking forward already to more of your podcasts. Thanks again, always a treat to watch and listen.😊

Marvelous video. All the best in the new year. 😊

What a lovely holiday gift, Alan and Thordis. Thank you.

I think for nice growing is waiting agroclimate good also good nutrition

Lovely video…..thank you. Happy Xmas to you

Yes that sure is 'Peter Gatehouse' , love that dear little narcissus that I had from Joe Sharman some years ago, not a patch on TAT LOL Try planting that gorgeous ruscus amongst black ophiopogon for maximum winter effect, no need to divide your plants either as it is true from seed seemingly, easy enough to sow the berries & make more plants my most favorite winter flowering shrub is Chimonanthus praecox which has the best perfume of any shrub to my nose, sad you did not include that one

Glad that I’m not the only one who loses track of variety names.

Great video you are making me want to go to the garden centres in my area of Glasgow

did he just say 'feathered maiden"?

I have brugmansia 'Maya' which has a variegated leaf with big splashes of white in the leaf. I think the foliage is rather good.

You didn’t say how deep the seeds should go and or sun or is location important . I’m assuming no since they are underground for 3 years before ready . Next time maybe add that and when they are ready what light conditions they need to be in .. or advice people to look it up depending on the bulb .Also should you fertilize?

Thank you for taking the time in your busy lives to share some gardening joy, especially as we move into Winter. I’m always delighted to read the notification that there’s a new episode to watch!

Lovely garden discussion esp welcome on this dark damp day

Love your program. Thanks

bring back show and tell

Very good glasses, Alan. Where are they from, please?

Would have loved to see the bulbs you harvested 😅

Thank you for the time you take to share the gardening joy, it’s greatly appreciated. 😃

I do enjoy your podcasts immensely, your relationship is a very special one and a joy to watch. From our garden to yours ❤

Thank you as ever a brilliant podcast I always learn something new! Could you tell me which garden centre Alan went to I love that berberis, looking forward to November's podcast thanks

The crown container at the beginning is beautiful. Lovely stories, great fun.

It's quite funny when Steve that some people were not ready for him. I'm ready for you! LOL!

Thoroughly enjoyable podcast. Salvia Bethellii …..referred to in your video…..is in full glorious flower here too along with several,other salvias

I don't think there is any evidence that soot is helpful against molluscs. I'd hate to think that he would have wasted a life laying down soot to no avail.

OMG ! it was so funny ! Merci pour la liste de plantes et arbres et fleurs ! 🥰

Lovely

Such bold beautiful plants! Thank you for the tour. 🌷

Thank you

Everyone i read before i planted mine said they needed to be 30 cms deep. Have i planned them too deep?

Well I ordered seed accidently no returns so I'm starting mine

Yes, fascinating on GW. Would be nice to get more of East Rushton on the tv Enjoyable horticultural discussion Any chance of having an expert on Sidalceas soon?

Lovely to see you two again. My favourite podcast. I'm South African, living in Cambridge for the last 19 years. Came over for my British born husband's health. I visited my daughter in SA for three months, over last Christmas. Luckily it really isn't a big thing there, specially if you are Afrikaans. We used to be outside having a barbecue and swimming. My daughter moved out of Johannesburg to Kwazulu Natal, which is close to the Indian Ocean and sub tropical. I thought I knew SA, but this place was completely strange to me. When you showed the canna I was amazed because this canna grows wild there. Another flower I had never seen, was a yellow straw flower, white arum lilies and orangy gladioli, all wild growing in masses along the roads. In April Cosmos also grows along the roads in masses, I used to get travel sick and at the age of four used to walk a bit to feel better and I remember all the colours of Cosmos. When I had my own place I used to drive a few miles outside Johannesburg and go and pick a bunch and when I got home they looked very sad, but plonk them in a bucket of water and beautiful. When I started my tiny garden here I needed a dahlia called Gerrie Hoek, because I grew up with Gerrie Hoek and was very excited and it grew and flowered, but then it was demolished and if plants are not insect and slug proof I just don't bother. Gerrie Hoek is sold by Ashridge nursery. And it is amazing how many plants there are...... I also always had a Peace rose, because I always knew it in my life, but in the UK it is just one black spot, nothing in SA. When I was five years old, we moved into a house with a garden that mainly existing out of cannas, red with dark leaves, like the modern ones. My mother paid us three to pick the seeds, blackish the size of a pea. And I always thought Cannas were weeds. On KZbin someone said you need to scrape the seeds for easier germination. Gardening has been uphill for me, but I have gained so much knowledge. If only I knew that I actually needed an allotment, something also foreign, but really clever. Growing up in Johannesburg, we had so many immigrants after the second world war. Portuguese who knew how to grow vegetables. Dutch, masters with flowers. Germans with butchers. It was a wonderful place to grow up and live. My mother's garden was a natural child friendly place and we had a bore hole, so we had water. Every Saturday afternoon we would spend making little paths for the water and so watered the garden. Moss growing under the fig trees and I made little gardens in tins. So free and creative. Once again thank you for knowledge and laughter.

This is the East Ruston's GW, on R.A. Javier's channel kzbin.info/www/bejne/goitd3WgZtiDpZo

Lovely to see Alan and the garden on GW

Love this podcast so much, found you over the summer and working my way through from the beginning. So refreshing to listen to a gardening podcast that treats its listeners and the subject matter properly. Deserves to be better known and hopefully the GW episode will do that. Alan is a genius and I can’t wait to visit your garden and Thordis is a brilliant presenter. You make my commute to work so much better, thank you.

Nice to see that East Ruston is on GW next week! Can't wait to see it

Excellent podcast, again. Re Jamaica Primrose I have been trying to get this for a few years without success and lost it. It has always grown well down here, Cornwall, often flowering in the winter so to know it is also known as Levada Cream gives me renewed hope I can re acquire it Ps. I grow salvia Phyllis Fancy here Thordis……survived last winter and currently large and floriferous

Those foliage plants that Alan referred to in his FLOMO sounded exciting. My 'eye' has changed over the years and I now take more notice of shape and texture of leaves. Thanks again Thordis and Alan, always a treat to watch your videos. 😊

I’ve always been told to dead head to something especially Dahlias!!!

I'd love to get that very tall red dahlia, for sure

Yay! Now do Shire Plants