Peter Donegan chats with Paul Cook of Cooks Garden Centre.Better known as Cookie or Cookie Boy, Peter and Paul met in the Floral Pavillion at RHS Tatton after former guest of The Sodhow Rob Hardy suggested we'd be a good partnership. He was not wrong. Over the course of the next 30 minutes the two plant lovers chat Cookies garden centre - one I ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Nikki Davies, IF Oldham and Caroline Lawson of Veg In The Park.Peter bumped into Nikki at RHS Tatton Flower Show 2017 at what was called Bus Stop Boulevard where, IF Oldham had transformed a Bus Stop into something completely, different.The Bus Stop at RHS Tatton a collaboration between IF Oldham, Real Junk Food Oldham ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Matthew Soper of Hampshire Carnivorous Plants.A first for The Sodshow, but no ordinary first Matthew and his team have been awarded in excess of one hundred RHS gold medals including 19 consecutive Chelsea Gold medals. Take a breath and get ready for the next bit. They have also won The Witan and Anthony Huxley Awards ( ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Toby Buckland.Toby Buckland has presented BBC Gardeners World, the BBC's coverage of RHS Chelsea Flower Show, The Great British Garden Revival and also on Channel 4 and ITV. He has written 5 gardening books, is a regular voice on Radio 4's BBC Gardeners Question Time, writes regularly for The Daily Telegraph and amongst ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Christopher Woodward, Director of The Garden Museum, London.From Christopher's background, the history of the museum building and how it was set to be turned into a car park to atrracting garden designer Dan Pearson to design the courtyard area, the 1000 plus pieces of a somewhat changing collection featuring Charlie Di ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Manoj Malde, Silver Gilt medal winner at RHS Chelsea 2017. This was his first time to design there.It's worth noting maybe, that this interview was recorded before medals were awarded.Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The SodshowInspired by the work of architect Luis Barragan, Beneath a Mexica ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Andrea Jones author of The Garden Photography Workshop.Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The SodshowOf Andrea her bio notes:For over twenty years Andrea Jones has built an international reputation photographing landscape architecture, gardens and plants. The latter being the subject of Andrea' ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Ballycommane House and Gardens owners Ingolf Jungmann and Andy Stieglitz.With very special thanks to Bev and Miriam of West Cork Garden Trail this was a little bit of a treat.Set on a landscape of about 4 acres, Andy and Ingolf hold around 1000 exotic native shrubs and trees chosen from literally the world over. In cont ...…

March 2017 saw Dublin based Landscape Garden maker and Designer Peter Donegan travel to Salt Lake City, Utah for a myriad of reasons; one of them was to do The Sodshow Garden Podcast, The Live Show.Fair to suggest Donegan did a little more than that. Over his nine days there either side of St Patrick's Day, the Dublin based horticulturist made ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Gavin McWilliam and Andrew Wilson.Wilson McWilliam designed and built their first Gold medal winning garden on main avenue Chelsea this June 2017. This interview took place before they were awarded this medal. Considering their first gold post three silver gilt medals at RHS Chelsea, it really makes this interview, for ...…

This year BBC Gardeners World celebrates 50 years on television.And to coincide with that celebration, BBC Gardeners World Live are marking this milestone in broadcasting history with the commission of two feature gardens by two of the country most exceptional garden designers. One of those is Paul Stone and on todays episode, with thanks to BB ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Esther Gerrard of Bloom Fringe Dublin, 2017.Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The Sodshow Formerly a molecular biologist now a landscape architect based in Dublin and Esther is one of the very merry Bloom Fringe ladies that are set to take over Dublin City Centre this weekend Saturday June 3rd ...…

Part 2 as Peter Donegan returns to chat with garden designer, tv presenter Ann Marie Powell.Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The Sodshow. On this weeks episode, we talk being patron of Green Fingers Charity. A charity that works to make garden spaces better for childrens hopice's. We chat show garden building, relati ...…

Peter Donegan chats with garden designer, tv presenter and pretty much one of the finest ladies you may ever have the pleasure to meet, Ann Marie Powell.Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The SodshowThe last time Ann Marie was on The Sodshow Garden Podcast was March 2016, just before she went to RHS Chelsea Flower Show ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Ed Hick, Live.@sodshow on twitter - facebook The SodshowThe Sodshow Live Show took place at Powerscourt Townhouse Centre, Dublin. This episode was one of the days series and was just one part of the very beautiful Bloom Fringe 2016 Festival.To Ed, he is the man behind Hick’s Sausages, Hick’s Bacon Jam and Hick’s Butcher ...…

Peter Donegan chats with author Karen Chapman.Alongside Christina Salwitz and published by Timber Press they have written Gardening With Foliage First. On that note, huge thanks to the very wonderful team at Timber Press for their help in making this interview happen.Incidentally, Gardening with Foliage First is a recommended title by The Royal ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Marybeth Janerich (pictured above on Peter's left), of Wasatch Community Gardens, Live from Salt Lake City Utah@sodshow on twitter - facebook The SodshowLive from Salt Lake City Utah, brought to you by Thyme and Place, this is the first show from the second night of The Sodshow Live. Peter Donegan was there for a little ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Zenaida Sengo, Live from Salt Lake City Utah. @sodshow on twitter - facebook The SodshowLive from Salt Lake City Utah, brought to you by Thyme and Place, this is the first show from the first night of The Sodshow Live. Peter Donegan was there for a little over one week were 6 guests in total, over 2 nights either side o ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Ian Price, Garden Designer at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017. @sodshow on twitter or facebook The SodshowFollowing his breakthrough gold medal success at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park in 2014, idverde is delighted to be supporting Northern Irish designer, Ian Price, as he takes his place for the first time at the RHS Ch ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Ian Price, Garden Designer at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017. - Part 1 of 2@sodshow on twitter or facebook The SodshowFollowing his breakthrough gold medal success at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park in 2014, idverde is delighted to be supporting Northern Irish designer, Ian Price, as he takes his place for the first time ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Philip Turvil, Grow Wild UK, Programme Manager based at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The SodshowThis isn't Philip's first time on The Sodshow garden podcast; and fair to suggest that when he was last on the discussion was very much about his back story, his ...…

Garden photographer Jonathan Ward chats with Sodshow garden podcast host Peter Donegan.The first ever garden photographer on The Sodshow, you may assume it would be as simple as it sounds. But and maybe as is always the case, this story is just that slight bit different.Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The Sodshow Fr ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Brian Granahan, a school teacher at St Patricks Boys National School based in Skibereen in Cork.Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The SodshowWhilst Peter and The Sodshow Live Show is off in the United States doing the live show, this is as close as one could get to St Patrick and Ireland, bein ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Charlotte Harris Designer of The Royal Bank of Canada Garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017. Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The Sodshow“When designing this garden, I spent time in northern Ontario exploring on foot and by canoe – navigating the waterways, pine forests, flora and granite o ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Garden Designer Paul Hervey BrookesThoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The SodshowPaul Hervey-Brookes is a well-respected designer who has built a strong reputation for landscapes and gardens that are classically English relying on planting schemes to create spaces and rich, multi-layered habita ...…

Peter Donegan chats with John Bevan, Head Gardener at Lisselan House, Clonakilty in West Cork.Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The SodshowJohn was born in Glengariff, but as a younger man spent most of his summers in Garnish Island where his love of plants grew. He went on to study horticulture at the National Botani ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Melinda Meservy of Thyme and Place, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The SodshowFormerly a business and data analysis expert who rarely saw home and lived from pretty much all over the world, 3 months ago Melinda opened the doors to her new business Thyme and Place, ...…

Peter Donegan talks to Juliet Roberts, the Editor of Gardens Illustrated Magazine. @sodshow on twitter. facebook, The SodshowFormerly in the film industry, in 2012 Juliet was listed as one of the top 30 most influential gardeners and since the now Bristol based (formerly London) Gardens Illustrated magazine, that at present now boasts its highe ...…

Peter Donegan chat with Tara Moloney of White Dove Nurseries, Limerick.@sodshow - twitter. facebook - The SodshowLive from Powerscourt Townhouse Centre as part of Bloom Fringe, Tara does what was unknown to Peter pre that, her first interview ever. In this case it was live, in front of an audience.In late 2012, Tara moved to Co. Limerick from S ...…

@sodshow on twitter - facebook TheSodshowOn this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Philip Turvil of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. If I'm really honest, Philips love of horticulture is infectious. And he's pretty wonderful not only at what he does - you can read his bio below - but more for how he sees horticulture and what that achiev ...…

Part 2 as Peter Donegan returns to chat with Annie Dellbridge, Head Gardener at Fullers Mill Garden. @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The SodshowReleased in two parts, this is the very amazing and very beautiful story of Head Gardener Annie Dellbridge, how she got to Fullers Mill Garden her journey there and also a little of who she is bot ...…

On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Annie Dellbridge, Head Gardener at Fullers Mill Garden. Released in two parts, this is the very amazing and very beautiful story of Head Gardener Annie Dellbridge, how she got to Fullers Mill Garden her journey there and also a little of who she is both in and outside of work.More than that ...…

Peter Donegan meets with Ben Brace of London National Park City. Of London National Park City, they say: Let’s make London the world’s first National Park City. A city where people and nature are better connected. A city that is rich with wildlife and every child benefits from exploring, playing and learning outdoors. A city where we all enjoy ...…

On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Lee Connolly of The Skinny Jean Gardeners.Currently working with Blue Peter (bbc tv) and Jimmy Doherty (channel 4), they have also worked as part of the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution, designed a garden for the Gardening World Cup, Japan ; and from music festivals to BBC Gardeners World Live ( ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Sara Venn of Incredible Edible Bristol.A horticulturist by trade Sara studied first studied fine art and somehow or other fell into catering. Having realised she wasn’t working where she wanted to be she took a job in a local nursery and then completed a masters in garden history and conservation.On todays show we chat ...…

Peter Donegan chats with Noel Kingsbury, author of Garden Flora, published by Timber Press.Noel Kingsbury has been described as “the voice of authority with renegade undertones”. A gardener since childhood, he has run a nursery, designed gardens and public spaces and done doctoral research at the University of Sheffield’s Department of Landscap ...…

On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Kazuyuki Ishihara at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016, Sean Conville of Two Spots Coffee and the wonderful Avril Hogan of Dingle Gin and Distillery.That, alone should win award for being the most pretty jam packed and most varied garden podcast in world history ! But wait..... there's more. Beca ...…

On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Annabel Langrish, Heron Gallery (and Garden), Cork.This episode is released the day before The Sodshow goes into the mix for The Garden Media Guild Awards (UK) at The Savoy Hotel in London. And so we chat a little about that, life, you and I guess what matters a little more. The Sodshow Gard ...…

On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Martha McDowell, author of All The Presidents Gardens, publshed by Timber Press. A teacher of landscape history and horticulture at New York Botanical Gardens, Martha also writes and gardens at her home in Chatham, New Jersey.The book, originally an idea of one of her garden history students ...…

Some time ago Peter Donegan was interviewed by Moze Jacobs of Clonline Radio where The Sodshow airs every week. It was to be an intro to those who may not be so aware of Peter and the garden podcast / radio show and the upcoming stories that were to air.For those who don't know, Moze asks Peter about starting Donegan Landscaping, his journey in ...…

On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with garden designer Caitlin Mc Laughlin. Caitlin was awarded 2016 Royal Horticultural Society Young Garden Designer of The Year 2016, formerly worked at Kew Gardens, built designed and won Gold medal at RHS Tatton and won Silver medal Malvern Flower Show. As of now Caitlin has alongside her sist ...…

On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Brigitte Shelswell-White of Bantry House and Gardens.The Sodshow Garden Podcast airs every Friday and is available in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com and is brought to you by CurrencyFairFrom the design and layout of the gardens, the history of the house itself and its jo ...…

On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with garden designer Pip Probert of Outer Spaces Landscape Garden Design, UKThe Sodshow Garden Podcast airs every Friday and is available in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.com and is brought to you by CurrencyFairPip has an absolutely amazing story where at the age of 22 in 2005 ...…

On this episode of The Sodshow, Peter Donegan talks to editor, author, photographer, nurseryman, and Norwegian gardener Tommy Tønsberg.The Sodshow Garden Podcast airs every Friday and is available in iTunes, all good podcast stores and www.sodshow.comOn this episode we delve back into how it all started, operating a horticultural business when ...…

On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with David Richardson, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Brought to you by CurrencyFair, The Sodshow Garden Podcast – every Friday – 4pm in iTunes and all good podcast stores. David Richardson grew up in Dungannon, Co Tyrone and is Director of Horticulture at the Commonwealth War Graves Commiss ...…

On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Laura Garnett of Perennial (GRBS) Gardeners Royal Benevolent Society. Brought to you with thanks to the very wonderful CurrencyFair for sponsoring. Please do support them, try 'em out and say hi. They are very nice people.And though admittedly sometimes I find it hard to talk about the more ...…

On this weeks episode of The Sodshow Garden Podcast, Peter Donegan chats with Lia Leendertz, with thanks to CurrencyFair. CurrencyFair are very proud sponsors of The Sodshow, Please do show them your support, wish 'em well and should you need to transfer money abroad, or buy something cool in another currency, they are the people that will save ...…

The Sodshow Garden Podcast - with CurrencyFair - Fridays, iTunes and all good podcast stores. Podcast listen/ subscribe: The SodShow in iTunesThe Sodshow in Stitcher – for android usersOn this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Matthew Pottage, Curator at RHS Garden Wisley.The youngest ever appointed Curator here and the youngest cur ...…

Brought to you by Currency Fair, proud sponsors of The Sodshow - On this weeks episode of The Sodshow Garden Podcast, Peter Donegan chats with the legend that is Rob Hardy of Hardys Cottage Garden Plants.From how Hardys started to how Rob actually started in the trade, what he was before he was one of the greatest minds behind one of the most s ...…

On todays show Peter Donegan chats with David Tanner of Glenview Gardens.David alongside wife Mary started this garden 10 years ago. Ten ! Which is amazing considering how mature it actually looks. What beats that however is that David is not of a horticultural background, he was formerly in haulage and then took to driving a school bus. And th ...…