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249: The Sodshow meets Darran Jaques of Urban Creations, UK Feb 18, 2016

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Peter Donegan and Brian Greene chat with Darran Jaques, an awarding-winning, passionate professional gardener well-known for his clean, simple approach to garden design and for a deep knowledge of plants, including the unusual and the exotic. Clients describe Surrey-based Darran as straightforward, good humoured and friendly, always willing to solve gardening problems and challenges for them. He has worked on medal-winning show gardens at Chelsea, Hampton Court, and Tatton Park, and, internationally, Philadephia and Malmo. This summer Darran will debut with his first show garden at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, the world’s largest. Designed in collaboration with Frederic Whyte, the entry is a contemporary, luxuriant water garden featuring a heated plunge pool in a woodland glade and a lily pond. Another first for Darran will be judging at the Malmö Garden Show in Sweden. Darran’s passion for horticulture extends beyond his business, to television and radio appearances and charitable work. He appeared as a garden expert on Channel 4’s Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb and was selected for Peter Andre’s 60 Minute Makeover. A fundraiser for Perennial, The Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Society, Darran is one of the Grubby Gardeners, whose naked calendar received world-wide coverage and saw Darran strip off again for a light-hearted gardening feature on ITV’s Loose Women. The Sodshow Garden Podcast airs every Friday live at 3pm and Just after in all good podcast stores.

The Sodshow airs every Friday live at 3pm on Dublin City FM and is available in iTunes and all good podcast stores around 3.30pm the same day.

248: The Sodshow. Andrew Mangan interviews Peter Donegan, Donegan Landscaping, Dublin Feb 12, 2016

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On this weeks show Peter Donegan is interviewed by radio and podcasting legend Andrew Mangan. It’s a long story short as to why Brian isn’t doing it, but we’ll leave that there for another day. In 5 years as The Sodshow, Peter has never actually been interviewed and this changes I guess everything. And so, from where Peter’s folks are from, his many homes and now 15 years as Donegan Landscaping by the age of 24 to shamrocks on pints of guinness (something very rarely a suggested to an Irishman in Ireland), a horrible start to growing seeds at 5 years of age and playing guitar badly through horticultural college. Andrew pretty much clears it all up……. This part 1. Part 2 to follow a bit later, not so much about Peter but more, an indepth look behind the scenes of The Sodshow and Peter’s relationship with the also very legendary Brian Greene. ————————————————————- Andrew Mangan is the brains behind the castaway media podcasting network, the host of the award winning 738am podcast and (also award winning) Arsenal podcast – Arsecast – which, has sold out live shows in both the UK and Ireland. He is also a professional voice over artist for over 25 years and is represented by The Lisa Richards agency. He and his studio based in South William Street Dublin are both available for hire and come higher than highly recommended – we have used both.
More than that I am subscribed to both of his podcasts, see below, we are huge fans of his and to be very fair he is, an absolute gentleman. twitter: @andrewmanganVO Further info: Andrew Mangan, Voice Over ————————————————————— Other Links: web: Peter Donegan Landscaping FB: Donegan Landscaping Twitter: @DoneganGardens Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The Sodshow.

The Sodshow Garden Podcast and radio show airs every Friday live at 3pm on Dublin City FM and is available in iTunes and all good podcast stores just after the same day.

247: The Sodshow. Peter Donegan chats with Brian Greene Feb 04, 2016

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On this weeks show Peter Donegan chats with Brian Greene.

In almost 5 years on air Brian and Peter have never really chatted, something that was recorded an put on air. And on this weeks show Brian in theory gets interviewed by Peter. Together we go back over the last 5 years, how Peter and Brian ended up together, how Brian has changed and the common denominator of a garden radio show.

Not to be missed. And a wonderful insight into the behind the scenes of Ireland's only full time garden radio show.

The Sodshow Garden Podcast airs every Friday live at 3pm and Just after in all good podcast stores.

246: The Sodshow meets Chris Crooker of Perennial GRBS (Gardeners Royal Benevolent Society) Jan 29, 2016

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Peter Donegan and Brian Greene chat with Chris Crooker of Perennial Gardeners Royal Benevolent Society, a charity that has been helping gardeners in the UK since 1839. We chat with Chris about the history of the charity, why it was originally started and just who Perennial was intended to provide support for; all the way to up modern-day today and just how far that has changed. We talk about the role Michael Perry and The Grubby Gardeners play in raising much-needed funds and a little of how they manage to do that to the main events they run throughout the year and how you might get involved in helping others in the horticultural industry.

Interesting is an understatement, amazing the change over the 150 plus years of the charities existence and very very brilliant. The Sodshow Garden Podcast airs every Friday live at 3pm and Just after in all good podcast stores.

245: The Sodshow meets RHS Ambassador, Jamie Butterworth Jan 22, 2016

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Peter Donegan and Brian Greene chat with newly appointed Royal Horticultural Ambassador and Hortus Loci plant wizard, Jamie Butterworth.

Having had a passion for all things horticulture since the age of 9, now 21 year old Jamie is currently Joint Show Plant Manager at Hortus Loci nurseries, after graduating from RHS Garden Wisley in Summer 2015. Tasked with growing the plants for major RHS flower shows such as Chelsea, Hampton Court and Tatton Park. Jamie is also a newly appointed RHS ambassador, becoming one of 7 ambassadors joining the likes of Titchmarsh and Mary Berry! One of Jamie's biggest passions is promoting horticulture to young people across the UK, showing what a fun, exciting and rewarding careers horticulture truly is.

The Sodshow Garden Podcast airs every Friday live at 3pm and Just after in all good podcast stores.

244: The Sodshow meets Tim Entwisle, Director at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Australia - Part 2. Jan 15, 2016

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On this weeks garden radio show, Part 2 of 2 as Peter Donegan and Brian Greene continue their chat with Tim Entwisle, Director of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne Australia.

We talk about Tim's children and further attracting the next generation of "young people" into a subject (horticulture) that seems just fine when you're a child or "older"; and the role Australia's Botanic Gardens are trying to play in this, poor pay, education and the role of the media (new and mainstream) in attracting better people into the industry.

We also talk about the seed bank at Kew Gardens, just what Tim does to relax outside of horticulture and of course a little of the gardening world.

We also have Sean Conville of Two Spots Coffee as we chat the skin off a coffee bean after roasting, formerly waste, now being used as bedding for Peters hens.

The Sodshow Garden Podcast airs every Friday live at 3pm and Just after in all good podcast stores.

243: The Sodshow meets Tim Entwisle, Director at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Australia – Part 1 Jan 08, 2016

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On this weeks garden radio show, Peter Donegan and Brian Greene chat with Tim Entwisle, Director at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne Australia.

On this part 1, we discuss everything from his role as Chief Executive of one of the most beautiful botanic garden on the planet The Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Australia and also The Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne; to his love of coffee, his office location and just how a non die hard plants person who used to walk the bush looking for gold with his grandfather, changed from a study of maths and physics to botany right up to the position he holds today.

Of course we delve into the love hate relationship some may have with the Titum arum, climate change and how Ireland may have too much but in Australia too little water and how that has changed their choice of plants and also a little of how plants as we grow up sometimes become a little cool and uncool as we grow up.

This part 1 of 2. Part 2 airs next Friday live at 3pm. Just after in all good podcast stores.

242: The Sodshow meets Eugene Higgins of The Irish Mail On Sunday - Part 2 Dec 17, 2015

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The Sodshow was awarded Ireland’s Best Podcast in 2012 and again in 2013. It’s also Ireland’s only full time garden radio show. Listen to The SodShow:

The Sodshow airs every Friday live at 3pm on Dublin City FM and is available in iTunes and all good podcast stores around 3.30pm the same day.

Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The Sodshow.

241: The Sodshow meets Eugene Higgins of The Irish Mail on Sunday – Part 1 Dec 11, 2015

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On this weeks garden radio show, Peter Donegan and Brian Greene chat with good friend, fellow landscape gardener and “The Irish Mail on Sunday” garden correspondent Eugene Higgins. Of note here, Peter and Eugene know each other since they were about 17 years young…. and this again is part 1 of a 2 part interview. We also chat the horticultural industry and Eugene’s thoughts on Peter – we didn’t even have to ask. We also chat again, (that’s 2 again’s) with former guest of The Sodshow the fantabulous Karen O’Donohue of Grow It Yourself International about their upcoming plans, the turning of the sod on GIY’s first home and a little of what the future holds.

The Sodshow airs every Friday live at 3pm on Dublin City FM and is available in iTunes and all good podcast stores around 3.30pm the same day. Thoughts or comments ? @sodshow on twitter or on facebook as The Sodshow.

240: The Sodshow meets Pat Lalor, Kilbeggan Organic Foods Dec 04, 2015

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On this weeks garden podcast Peter Donegan chats with Pat Lalor, 4th generation farmer, now organic farmer, oat grower and head Don at Kilbeggan Organic Foods. Now working with his son John (pictured above), Kilbeggan only use the oats sourced from only their own farm and on todays show today Peter and Pat chat how to make the perfect bowl of porridge, treating your soil like your fifth child when growing organically and how instinctively knowing how and when to harvest by appearance and touch from an ear of corn. We also chat crop rotation, farmyard manure and a biscuit range that is his wifes recipe. What a story. An absolute gentleman and another whopper of a sodshow. A note of thanks to Bord Bia for their help in putting this show together. The Sodshow garden podcast airs every live Friday at 3pm and can be found just after in iTunes and all good podcast stores.

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