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Gardeners’ World 2026 Episode 9 Recap

Gardeners’ World 2026 Episode 9 Recap

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RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026

This week on Gardeners’ World 2026 Episode 9 Recap the National Highways press office get in touch to set the record straight regarding The Cockcrow Heathland Bridge near Cobham in Surrey. We also learn about the legend Rachel Entrekin and her extraordinary ultra marathon win, how to remove nitrogen from the soil, what makes an Oreo more vegan than a fig, who can run faster out of an ostrich and a horse, and why the Romans ate Romaine lettuce just before bed.

On Gardeners’ World, “lover-man” Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame have a look at some of the growers and showers at RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026. We also visit Mike Arthurs and his ducks at his hosta nursery – Mike’s Hostas, in Taunton, and Lora Peneva from Urban Greenery in West Sussex shows her preparations for the show. Alina Hibbert near Bristol shares some of the plants she’s using in her indoor display Back to Grandma’s House, and Marcel de Fossard/Floyd from Floyd’s Clematis and Climbers in Chippenham gives a mini masterclass on clematis growing.

In our Chit-Chat-Catch-Up this week we hear that Annmarie & Andrew Swift‘s beautiful tropical garden, Fifty Shades of Green, in Walsall is open through the NGS from 22nd May, and the incredible news about an impending book by Delia May West from Hone Hill Dreaming – soon to be published – hurrah!

🥇🥇We also remind our listeners that Dan’s still the man! With another Gold at RHS Malvern Spring Festival, Dan’s Plants is THE plant nursery to buy your plants from this season! Dan’s kindly giving a 10% discount on all his award-winning plants with our exclusive code NJAG10🥇🥇

Links & Mentions

Scenes from the Garden

  • Tassel hyacinth
    Tassel Hyacinth in the natural wildflower patch
  • yellow irises
    A right muddle of yellow irises
  • pyramidal orchid
    Pyramidal orchid
  • Lady Orchid
    Lady orchid
  • Larkspurs
    Larkspurs in the gravel garden

Rachel Entrekin

The inspiring Rachel Entrekin beating everyone!
Who’s faster – an ostrich or a horse?

Oreos vs figs

Liz & Fi from New Hope Daylilies recommending pots from Tom’s Yard (as seen in Martyn Wilson’s garden, Clay: The Super Soil) on their ep27 of Chit-Chats

Show Gardens

ONE Garden

Designer: Ian McBain

Built by: Pickwell Paving

🏅BEST SHOW GARDEN

🏅RHS ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AWARD

🥇GOLD MEDAL

The Blessings from the Sea

Designers: Eun Kyung Jung, Heehyeok Kang & Jaeheon Kim on behalf of Chollipo Arboretum 

Built by: JG Landscaping Ltd 

Sponsors: Korea Arboreta and Gardens Institute, Stone Warehouse and London Stone

🏅BEST CONSTRUCTION (SHOW GARDEN)

🥈SILVER MEDAL

Lifted by Birds

Designers: Tom Saunders of Skylark Garden Design, Jon Pilling of The Intrinsic Link, and Amie Wheeldon of Bud & Bird Gardens

Sponsors: Pictoral Meadows, British Trust of Ornithology, Protect the Andes and Arthur Burns and Sons Stone Merchants

Contractors: RJH Walling and PJW Landscapes

🏅PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD BEST SHOW GARDEN

🥇GOLD MEDAL

Clay: The Super Soil

Designer: Martyn Wilson of Wilson Associates Garden Design 

Suppliers/Collaborators:

Contractor – JG Landscaping 

Timber Framed Structures – Whittle Earth 

Clay tiles and Clay pavers – Ketley Brick and Dreadnought Tiles

Trees and Plants – Hortus Loci 

Hedging – Ready Hedge 

Mulches and Composts – Rolawn 

Wildflower Meadow – Wildflower Turf 

Sculpture – Simon Gudgeon 

Pots – Tom’s Yard 

Pressed in Time: Nature’s Memory

Designer: Lora Peneva

Sponsor: Studio Wald

Built by: EDN Landscapes Ltd

🥈🥈SILVER-GILT MEDAL

Floral Tablescaping

The Woodland Restaurant

Designer: Demelza Leng of The Unwalled Garden 

🥈SILVER MEDAL

Victorian Woodland Tablescape

Designer: Kate Hurst of Camomile and Flowers

🥈SILVER MEDAL

Blooming Borders

Stumped

Designer: Laura Ashton-Phillips (The Botanic Blonde)

Sponsor: Gloucestershire County Council

🥈🥈SILVER-GILT MEDAL

Finding Balance

Designer: Megan Dodd

Sponsors: Calcot Manor & Spa, BANA, Aromatherapy Associates

🥈SILVER MEDAL

Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder

Designer: Adam Marshall

🏅PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD BEST BLOOMING BORDER

🥈SILVER MEDAL

Festival of Houseplants

The Scholar’s Jungle

Designer: Abbi Dixon (Botanic York)

🥇GOLD MEDAL

The Science of Sustenance

Designer: CANNA

🥈🥈SILVER-GILT MEDAL

Back to Grandma’s House

Designers: Alina Hibbert & Adam Critien
Sponsor: Jeffrey Ross

🏅BEST INDOOR PLANT GARDEN

🏅PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD BEST INDOOR PLANT GARDEN

🥇GOLD MEDAL

Floral Marquee

Alpine Garden Society: Alpine gardening in small spaces

🥇GOLD MEDAL

Growing Crazy: Pelargonium

🥈🥈SILVER-GILT MEDAL

Gardeners Delight Nursery: Perennials for bees and pollinators

🥈🥈SILVER-GILT MEDAL

Mike’s Hostas: Hostas

🥇GOLD MEDAL

W&S Lockyer: Display of Perennials and Succulents

🏅RHS MASTER GROWER

Bluebell Cottage Gardens: Hardy perennials with foliage and flowers for spring interest

🥇GOLD MEDAL

Staddon Farm Nurseries: National Collection of Epimedium in a woodland setting

🥇GOLD MEDAL

Floyds Clematis and Climbers: Spring-flowering clematis

🥈🥈SILVER-GILT MEDAL

Scenes from The Show

Adam Marshall’s RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 Blooming Border – Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
Mike Arthurs at RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026
Alina Hibbert’s indoor garden – Back to Grandma’s House at RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026
Lora Peneva’s show garden at RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2026 – Pressed in Time: Nature’s Memory

Jobs for the Weekend

Nothing to do this week except dance🕺 Also, we’ll be direct sowing a load of veg seeds – mostly butternuts, beans & courgettes

Next Time on Gardeners’ World – 15th May

With the promise of warmer days ahead, Monty makes a start on planting up some of his spectacular summer containers. He’s also got leeks to plant out and shares some advice on how to make your own fertiliser.

Frances Tophill heads to Berkshire to learn more about biodynamic gardening and the benefits it can bring. It’s also time for an update from Adam Frost’s new garden, where things are slowly starting to take shape.

In Cumbria, a couple of growers share their love of auriculas as they get ready for this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. And as part of Mental Health Awareness Week, a forager explains how her garden helped her to heal after being diagnosed with cancer.

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