“Build something big and beautiful Phil”, that’s what my mum said to me, those were some of her last words, just before she passed away suffering COVID19 during Lockdown in January 2020. It was not easy saying goodbye to her from behind a glass panel, and through multiple layers of PPE, hard to even hear these last words, but I did, there were beautiful. Those words gave me hope and optimism, mum was a keen gardener, she grew things. And that’s what gardeners do, they grow hope and optimism, So I started to grow this podcast, Growing (with) All Gardening, to share some hope and optimism.