Gardeners' World 2026 Recap: Ep 1

Gardeners' World 2026 Recap: Ep 1

From Not Just a Garden by Sweetpea and Bear

March 18, 2026 · 1h 3m · Season 6 · Episode 1

About this episode

The episode recaps the first episode of Gardeners' World 2026, discussing various gardening topics and featuring guest Martin Dohrn.

Gardeners' World is back - hurrah - and so are a sleep-deprived Sweetpea and a bemused Bear with an Episode 1 Recap. In this episode we look at the continued success of seed snails, the chicken or egg of Sonic the Hedgehog and protein, gruesome bird-killing trees, beautiful brain healing cock's combs, and the goodest boy ever. On Gardeners' World we kick off with a title shake-up and Monty back at Longmeadow. We get to see a bit of Adam Frost's new garden before meeting alpine legends Bob and Rannveig Wallis in Carmarthenshire. Arit Anderson takes us to Kew to meet plant saviours Carlos Magdalena and Paul Rees before we have a look at the tropical garden of Cathy Smythe, Gary Cattermole, Bowie (as in oh not ow - sorry😔), Dota, Mel & Mojo. Lastly, we've had many animated conversations on a fair few of the pod episodes about wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn's fantastic and award-winning film, My Garden of a Thousand Bees . Martin was on Gardeners' World 2025 episode 11 and joined us for episode 39 of Chit-Chats last year where he shared a bit about the intricacies of filming his minuscule subjects. He also talked about the struggles of bringing the film to UK screens given that…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sweetpea, Bear

Topics covered

  • Gardeners' World
  • recap
  • wildlife filmmaking
  • plant care
  • gardening tips

Keywords

  • Gardeners' World
  • Sweetpea
  • Bear
  • Martin Dohrn
  • gardening
  • wildlife
  • plants
  • recap

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: My Garden of a Thousand Bees

More episodes of Not Just a Garden

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Not Just a Garden podcast page.