Welcome to our gardening series, How My Garden Grows, hosted by lifelong gardener and journalist Francine Raymond. "I have visited hundreds of gardens, some for work and others for pleasure, but what excites me most about gardens is their atmosphere and the stories they tell," she says. "In this series of garden get-togethers, I want to explore real gardens going through the seasons; gardens that have been grown with passion and patience."
How My Garden Grows
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Welcome to our gardening series, How My Garden Grows, hosted by lifelong gardener and journalist Francine Raymond. "I have visited hundreds of gardens, some for work and others for pleasure, but what excites me most about gardens is their atmosphere and the stories they tell," she says. "In this series of garden get-togethers, I want to explore real gardens going through the seasons; gardens that have been grown with passion and patience."
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Recent Episodes
June 23, 2026
An expert grower of auriculas explains their history and heart-stopping appeal
<p>Once museum curator and now textile artist, Jane-Ann Walton has a particular passion for auriculas. Originally tiny alpine mountain plants, auriculas made their way to this country via Huguenot weavers arriving in Norwich and Spitalfields in the 16th century. Jane-Ann grows over 500 of these delicate, heart-stopping flowers which she displays in "auricula theatres." Each frilly nosegay of flowers is held on a straight stem above a rosette of often farina-covered leaves in its own terracotta pot. Join us on a tour of Jane-Ann's four-acre plot in deepest Norfolk to discover the unique history of these plants and learn from the mistakes of a committed expert.</p>
May 20, 2026
How My Garden Grows: Off the beaten track in Great Dixter, one of Britain’s best-loved gardens
<p><a href="https://www.greatdixter.co.uk/">Great Dixter’s</a> garden has got to be one the most famous in the country, so it was with great difficulty that the podcast team dragged itself away from its stunning borders, flower-filled meadows and iconic features to focus on its less trumpeted achievements: its scholarship, its compost and its success in increasing biodiversity.</p>
March 31, 2026
The autobiographical gardens of 'chicken boy' Arthur Parkinson
<p>During what seems an interminable wait for spring, we travel to Nottingham to meet the writer and gardener Arthur Parkinson, one of the most influential young gardeners in the UK. Our host, Francine Raymond, has known Arthur since he wrote to me as a small boy, and they've kept in touch because of their mutual love of hens. </p><p>For our fifth episode of the How My Garden Grows podcast, Arthur shows us around three gardens that have been pivotal to his love of nature, hens and gardens. “I come from a world of small urban gardens,” he tells us as we stand in his mum’s tiny front garden, crammed full of pots filled with bulbs just beginning to flower under their squirrel protection. It’s precisely here – at home with his mum and brother, being allowed to forage, harvest and play unhindered in this plot – that his path was set.</p>
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