Ask James and Joe: Weeds, Wisteria and What to do When it Snows
James Alexander-Sinclair and Joe Swift open the inbox and dive headfirst into your gardening questions – with plenty of digressions along the way.
This week James and Joe answer your questions: they tackle the eternal dilemma of self-seeders – when a “generous volunteer” quietly becomes a full-blown marauder – before heading into snowbound survival tips, from sharpening secateurs with camellia oil to designing gardens from the sofa.There’s advice on wisteria – where it really works, how much pruning is too much pruning, and why cherry pickers should come with a health warning – plus a surprisingly strong opinion on crazy paving, recycled materials and when a project just isn’t worth the angle grinder dust.
Along the way there are accents, Belgian cyclists, robot mowers wintering in Magaluf, and a reminder that if you enjoy the podcast, a nice review goes a very long way.
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This episode is sponsored by Kress, leaders in robotic lawnmowing and battery landscaping tools. Learn more here.
About our hosts
James Alexander-Sinclair is a garden designer, writer and broadcaster. He is an RHS Vice-President and was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal for outstanding contribution to horticulture in 2022. He is the RHS Ambassador for Garden Design and a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers.
Joe Swift is a familiar face on television as a presenter of BBC TV’s Gardeners’ World and other gardening programmes. He is a garden designer, broadcaster, writer and design director of Modular.
