Gardening with the RHS

Crazy About Houseplants: Top picks & tips and the stories behind our obsession

As the surrounding world starts looking a little bleaker, we’ve decided to explore how to best turn our homes into verdant oases. RHS Digital Editor Jenny Laville chats with Gareth Richards about the best low-maintenance houseplants, fun climbers for indoors, and underrated care tips and tricks. Social historian Catherine Horwood regales us with the history of ever-changing houseplant trends. And finally, author and podcaster Alice Vincent reveals the role houseplants played in her own gardening journey.
 
Presenters: Gareth Richards and Jenny Laville
Contributors: Catherine Horwood and Alice Vincent
 
Links:
 
Picking the right houseplant
 
Houseplants for different locations
 
Houseplants for students
 
Potted History: How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes
 
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
 
Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

'Gardening with the RHS' offers seasonal advice, inspiration and practical solutions to gardening problems. Trusted gardening professionals give you the latest horticultural advice, scientific research and tried and tested techniques to bring out the best in your garden.

Topics covered include: growing your own vegetables, flowers, garden design, lawn care and gardening with children. Plus expert masterclasses in topics ranging from cottage garden plants, growing orchids, to pest control and eco-friendly gardening.

Plus we’ll have behind the scenes reports from the country’s most prestigious flower shows. There’s something in these podcasts to interest every gardener, whatever your level of expertise.

For more info see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast

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