"Shish kebabs", do we have a packed episode this week! As well as recapping Gardeners' World 2025 episode 17, we also take a look at Switzerland's latest railway innovation, we learn how dandelions are once again saving the day, how plants cry when they're stressed, what Wellington, New Zealand got up to with 180 cabbages back in 1978, and the serious need for personal space between male and female anglerfish.

On the show we get to see the first ever RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse with Frances Tophill, Jamie Butterworth, Adam Frost, Arit Anderson and Joe Swift. Some of the show gardens paid a visit were:

RNIB Legacy Garden, Designer: Paul Hervey-Brookes

Drakkars Drift, Designer: Luke Coleman

A potted History: Echoes of Rockingham, Designer: Sam Dryell

RHS Teenage Dirt Park, Designer: Rachel Platt

The Grant Horticulture Xeriscape Garden, Designer: Callum Bain-Mackay

The Discovery Outdoors “Edimental Kitchen Classroom” - Designers: Sam Penrose and Jojo Tarvet

What is This Life if, Full of Care, We Have No Time to Stand and Stare?, Designers: Sally Holder and Victoria Irish

The Dune Garden, Designer: Jacopo Ducato Ruggeri

The Greenfingers Charity Together Garden, Designers: Phil Hirst & Jo Charlton

Urban Pollinators, Designer: Richard Browning

Hazelwood Barn, Designer: Lee Bestall

RHS Miners Garden, Designer: Chris Meyers

RHS Work with your Garden, Designers: Matt Biggins and Richard Hill

From the Floral Marquee we see Dan's Plants, Proctor's Nursery, and Harts Nursery and also meet Dean Charlton from Hooton's Walled Nursery, and Greg Anderton from Leafy Lytham.

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