{"podcast":{"title":"RHS Roots","slug":"rhs-roots-7774806","podcast_index_feed_id":7774806,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/rhs-roots/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/publications/rhs-roots","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/rhs-roots/20260410_010401_7a5082ba08c480aee260566fc0d07c60.png","author":"RHS","episode_count":8,"summary":"Welcome to RHS Roots - A visual podcast where Jo Whiley visits special guest’s gardens, discovering how they tell their life stories, the highs and the lows, and chats to them about the plants they love and the plants they hate. RHS friendly gardeners offer the guests - a mix of national treasures, well known faces and expert gardeners - top tips and advice to answer all their burning gardening questions. Find out the stories gardens can bring to life, and how a love of nature makes life a better place. New episodes drop fortnightly, the first and third Friday of the month Watch the visual podcast on YouTube - https://youtube.com/@the_rhs","last_synced_at":"2026-07-04T04:20:50.670745+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rhs-roots-7774806"},"episode":{"title":"Imaginary Gardens, Devoted Dogs and Lettuce Love with Monty Don | Roots S1 E5 | The RHS","slug":"imaginary-gardens-devoted-dogs-and-lettuce-love-with-monty-don-roots-s1-e5-the-rhs","published_at":"2026-05-15T08:00:58+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rhs-roots-7774806/imaginary-gardens-devoted-dogs-and-lettuce-love-with-monty-don-roots-s1-e5-the-rhs","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rhs-roots-7774806","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/rhs-roots/2825050","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/375774/2825050/rhs-roots/2026_05_17_12_22_09_0918bb0c-dde8-45a6-9be5-dd53f422b8f0.mp3","summary":"This Roots is a collaboration between the RHS and the BBC as they celebrate their partnership at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Ahead of RHS Chelsea and the wonderful coverage across BBC 1 and BBC 2 beginning on Sunday 17 May, the RHS and BBC have joined forces to bring you this Roots special with the one and only Monty Don in his incredible garden at Longmeadow. Jo Whiley and Monty Don chat about the secret garden at Longmeadow that never makes it to camera, his make-believe jewel garden and love for lettuce. Watch this episode on YouTube here - https://youtu.be/oDXlbhR41ho RHS Roots is our new twice monthly visual podcast, also available on all podcast platforms. New episodes drop the first and third Friday of the month. For more content like this please like, share and subscribe to the YouTube channel or leave us a review below. Watch Episode 1 with actor Richard E Grant: https://youtu.be/H2dtyVere5M Watch Episode 2 with RHS Ambassador Dame Mary Berry: https://youtu.be/d7RkSYLSc0Q Watch Episode 3 with actor Dame Judi Dench - https://youtu.be/kO1exoFgDmk Watch Episode 4 with Alan Titchmarsh CBE - https://youtu.be/VL3ExDNI7f0","meta_description":"This Roots is a collaboration between the RHS and the BBC as they celebrate their partnership at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Ahead of RHS Chelsea…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1995,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rhs-roots-7774806/episodes/imaginary-gardens-devoted-dogs-and-lettuce-love-with-monty-don-roots-s1-e5-the-rhs/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rhs-roots-7774806/imaginary-gardens-devoted-dogs-and-lettuce-love-with-monty-don-roots-s1-e5-the-rhs.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}