{"id":21707,"date":"2023-04-25T12:22:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T10:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gardensillustrated.com\/?p=105253"},"modified":"2023-04-25T12:34:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T10:34:51","slug":"talking-gardens-episode-6-jekka-mcvicar","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/rss_feed\/talking-gardens-episode-6-jekka-mcvicar\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Gardens episode 6: Jekka McVicar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listen to episode six of Talking Gardens, the new Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring renowned nurserywoman and herb queen Jekka McVicar, who talks about her dream garden, pioneering in environmental methods and growing plants for the Chelsea Flower Show. <\/p>

By Gardens Illustrated Team\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 25 April 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Talking Gardens podcast: Episode 6 with Jekka McVicar<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this episode, renowned nurserywoman and herb<\/a> grower Jekka McVicar describes her fantasy garden. She talks about bucking the trend by adopting organic<\/a> and peat-free<\/a> growing methods in her nursery back in the 1980s, and the challenges of growing plants for the Chelsea Flower Show<\/a>. Jekka explains her love of Chinese garden design features such as moon gates and discusses the influence of the cookbooks her grandmother wrote. Unsurprisingly, Jekka\u2019s imaginary Eden would be filled to the brim with herbs, and inspired by natural landscapes in South Africa and Malaysia, and she would share it with Beth Chatto and Penelope Hobhouse, and her dog \u2013 but she would never have a leylandii hedge. <\/span><\/p>\n

Listen here<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h3><a href=\"\/\/www.gardensillustrated.com\/podcasts\/"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\"><em>Talking Gardens<\/em><\/a> \u2013 Season One release dates<\/h3>\n<ul><li><strong>Episode One: <a href=\"\/\/podlink.to\/TalkingGardens"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">Fergus Garrett<\/a><\/strong> 21\/03\/2023<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Two: <a href=\"\/\/podlink.to\/TalkingGardens"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">Alice Vincent<\/a><\/strong> 28\/03\/2023<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Three: <a href=\"\/\/podlink.to\/TalkingGardens"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">Tom Stuart-Smith<\/a><\/strong> 04\/04\/2023<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Four: <a href=\"\/\/podlink.to\/TalkingGardens"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">James Wong<\/a><\/strong> 11\/04\/2023<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Five: <a href=\"\/\/podlink.to\/TalkingGardens"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">Troy Scott Smith<\/a><\/strong> 18\/04\/2023<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Six: <a href=\"\/\/podlink.to\/TalkingGardens"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">Jekka McVicar<\/a><\/strong> 25\/04\/2023<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Seven: Charlie Harpur<\/strong> 02\/05\/2023<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Eight: Sarah Price<\/strong> 09\/05\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New episodes will be released every Tuesday, <a href=\"\/\/podlink.to\/TalkingGardens"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a> so you never miss one! <strong>Season 1 of the Talking Gardens podcast is <a href=\"\/\/www.jparkers.co.uk\/"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">sponsored by J Parker\u2019s Bulbs<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Listen to episode six of Talking Gardens, the new Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring renowned nurserywoman and herb queen Jekka McVicar, who talks about her dream garden, pioneering in environmental methods and growing plants for the Chelsea Flower Show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21708,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2023\/04\/talking-gardens-episode-6-jekka-mcvicar.png",960,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2023\/04\/talking-gardens-episode-6-jekka-mcvicar-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2023\/04\/talking-gardens-episode-6-jekka-mcvicar-300x129.png",300,129,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2023\/04\/talking-gardens-episode-6-jekka-mcvicar-768x330.png",768,330,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2023\/04\/talking-gardens-episode-6-jekka-mcvicar.png",800,344,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2023\/04\/talking-gardens-episode-6-jekka-mcvicar.png",960,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2023\/04\/talking-gardens-episode-6-jekka-mcvicar.png",960,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Listen to episode six of Talking Gardens, the new Gardens Illustrated podcast, featuring renowned nurserywoman and herb queen Jekka McVicar, who talks about her dream garden, pioneering in environmental methods and growing plants for the Chelsea Flower Show.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/21707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}