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Hello and welcome to the BBC Gardner's World magazine podcast, brought to you by the team here at the magazine.

Join us as we chat all things gardening with the nation's favourite experts.

We amateur gardeners sometimes feel like we've got our hands full with our plots.

But can you imagine being responsible for the upkeep of thousands of sites across the world?

And these aren't just any sites.

These sites are the 24,000 cemeteries and memorials under the care of the Commonwealth Wargrave Commission.

The international body set up to commemorate the 1.7 million men and women from across the Commonwealth

who died in the First and Second World Wars.

Well, that's the inspiring job of today's guest on the Gardner's World magazine podcast,

as we mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings with this

special edition speaking with David Richardson, Director of Horticulture at the Commonwealth Wargraves

Commission. I'm Oliver Parsons, and I'll be talking to David about the huge job of looking

after so many important sites across the world, and how he's working to help future-proof them

against climate change change while also reducing

emissions and increasing biodiversity. So hello, David, and welcome to the podcast. It's wonderful

to have you here today to mark this important day and also to look ahead to the future. Delighted to be

here. Thank you very much. So, David, this is an amazing gardening job. How did you end up gardening

across almost every continent?

Yeah, you got that right. I grew up in Northern Ireland, grew up in Dungannon and came from a family of

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