What To Do Now - Gather nature for natural Christmas decorations

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Science, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.4 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

There's something genuinely magical about heading out into your garden or local woodland on a crisp winter morning, secateurs in hand, gathering armfuls of evergreen foliage. It connects us to those ancient midwinter traditions which go back thousands of years to when our ancestors celebrated the winter solstice. They understood that bringing evergreen branches indoors was a promise that spring would return. And don’t we all still find ourselves wishing for the same in the depths of winter? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipoplae sauce and ameta cheese melt,
0:08.4	and it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.1	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments at the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11am.
0:18.1	Plus and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:20.3	This is a paid ad by Explore Worldwide.
0:23.2	Let's face it, try as we might,
0:24.9	to add some exotic colour with a ginger lily here
0:27.4	or a bird of paradise there.
0:29.3	Here in the UK, we barely scratch the topsoil.
0:32.0	To really experience the world's most striking flora,
0:35.4	you need to explore.
0:37.1	Explore Worldwide has some incredible small group adventures, and because all explores tour leaders
0:42.3	are experts, they know all the hidden gems and best kept secrets in each destination.
0:47.3	Like the verdant cloud forests on the lesser explored Canary Island of La Gamera, with dense
0:53.3	laurel forest subtropical plants or the
0:55.8	fragrant plantations of South India where many of your favourite spices are harvested. Stay in jungle
1:01.8	cottages or rooms amongst the forest and enjoy farm to plate spice garden tours and authentic
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