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BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Renovating a garden, with Nick Bailey

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Science, Leisure

4.4647 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

If your garden is looking tired or you've moved into a new home and inherited a scruffy or unloved plot, turning it into a garden you love can seem like a daunting task. What do you do with shrubs that have grown wild or a patio that's crumbling under your feet? Join plantsman, author, designer, and TV presenter, Nick Bailey, who's recently renovated his own garden and discover how to give your garden a new lease of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is sponsored by Guide Dogs. Guide Dogs is a charity that helps people with sight loss

0:05.7

live the life they choose. This time of year we can enjoy autumnal walks and swishing through

0:11.5

crunchy leaves, planning the veg plot, planting spring bulbs and spending time with friends

0:17.0

in a community garden. Now think how you would do those things if you lost your sight.

0:22.6

Guide dogs helps people with sight loss live the life they choose so they can fulfill their

0:27.4

ambitions, big or small, day in and day out. Being outdoors, exploring the world around us and

0:33.4

gardening is all about getting involved and trying new things, and so is a life well-lived.

0:39.5

By providing guide dogs, mobility training and other support services,

0:43.7

guide dogs helps people with sight loss from childhood to adulthood.

0:47.5

Because you don't just have to manage with sight loss, you can thrive with it, live independently, and live well.

0:54.0

Find out more about guide dogs' life-changing services or how you can support their incredible work at guidedogs.org.com.

1:02.3

Everyone deserves to live the life they choose.

1:05.3

Fulfill your gardening dreams and don't hold back.

1:08.2

Guide Dogs is here to ensure that people with sight loss can do just that.

1:13.2

This is a paid ad by Explore Worldwide. Let's face it, try as we might to add some exotic

1:18.7

colour with a ginger lily here or a bird of paradise there. Here in the UK, we barely scratch

1:24.3

the topsoil. To really experience the world's most striking flora, you need to explore.

1:30.1

Explore worldwide has some incredible small group adventures,

1:33.4

and because all explores tour leaders are experts,

1:36.2

they know all the hidden gems and best kept secrets in each destination.

1:40.7

Like the verdant cloud forests on the lesser explored Canary Island of La Gamera, with

1:45.5

dense laurel forest subtropical plants, or the fragrant plantations of South India, where many

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