Photo Gallery
10 Nov 2026, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Both began as landscapers in London and have now migrated to the country (Joe to Dorset and James to Oxfordshire). Do they miss the urban bustle? What are the best and worst bits of sprawling acres? For a start there are no deer in London (yet) and the rural foxes have much better manners.
Nobody is absolutely sure where they will end up but expect a conversation about vertical gardening, sit on lawn mowers, how much ground elder is too much, is it possible to carry compost bags on the tube and similar existential dilemmas.
There will also be time for questions although there are two very strict rules:
We are here for questions about revenge, tattoos, historical fantasies, design, and anything that requires counselling.
It will be a fun evening. As Mary Keen says “I love the James and Joe show, because they always manage to say some quite profound things, while being seriously silly.”
James Alexander-Sinclair is a garden designer, writer and broadcaster. He is an RHS Vice-President and was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal for outstanding contribution to horticulture in 2022. He is the RHS Ambassador for Garden Design and a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers.
Joe Swift is also a designer and writer and a familiar face on television as a presenter of BBC TV’s Gardeners’ World and other gardening programmes. He is a garden designer, broadcaster, writer and design director of Modular.