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

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This podcast was recorded live at Q Gardens in September. A very warm welcome to in conversation at Q Gardens, which is such a delight. We're going to be talking all things Gardner's World. Adam and France's very exciting careers in front of the camera and behind the camera as well. All in this stunning setting. Gorgeous. I mean, the weather, thank you for bringing the weather, because it's amazing. So if you didn't get a chance to look around earlier on, I know a lot of you did, please do come back because it is so, so beautiful here. Have you two been to Q on numerous times? Yeah, I've been quite a few times. My mum used to bring me here when I was a kid. Oh, nice. She grew up not far away. She grew up actually in Germany and then moved to Twickenham. So she, when I was a kid, used to bring us to walk along the river and come and see it. But then obviously in my gardening life, I've been here a few times as well. And I trained at Edinburgh Botanic Garden and it was always like a little bit in awe of Kew Gardens

because this is, in my gardening life. I've been here a few times as well. And I trained at Edinburgh, a botanic garden,

and it was always like a little bit in awe of Q gardens.

Is it?

This is, I don't know if anyone,

botanic gardens are not good enough at selling what they do.

No.

Because this place is not just about a beautiful garden.

It's also one of the leading lights in research of conservation,

finding new plants,

reintroducing them into the wild, finding out all of the different chemicals that make them up,

whether they have medicinal uses, seed collecting and preserving this massive amounts, and also educating people. So I just, all these places made me feel very in awe.

Adam, you've been here numerous times as well, haven't you?

Yeah, getting right from a kid, really, right through to, I suppose, over the years,

but then also teaching the London School of Garden Design are based themselves here.

So I've come and done some teaching.

We've got a lot to get through today.

Obviously, we're going to be talking about Garden's world and your careers, et cetera, et cetera. How has your year been? Has it been a good one? For me, yeah, in terms of the weather, I know we love to talk about the weather in the UK, but also gardeners. I love this year. I'm lucky I'm in Devon so that there has been a little bit of rain.

I think we're one of the only places that's not technically in a drought. But, oh, I love the

heat. It's been so good. And things have grown. The veg hasn't been as good as usual because

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