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Dear Gardener
by Ben Dark
Gardening walks and green thoughts from award winning writer Ben Dark and guests.
Episodes
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[Solo Episode] A Chronicle Botanical: Parham House, Uppark, and the joy of stolen plants
On this episode of Dear Gardener, host Ben Dark explores gardening life and gardening death. From the ranunculus flower’s writhing stem - a cut flower snake, trying to find its way back into the garden - to tulips drooping in a vase, the importance of writing accurately about plants is…
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[Interview] The Thousand Year Old Garden: Inside the Secret Garden at Lambeth Palace with Nick Stewart Smith
Nick Stewart Smith spent seven years as Head Gardener at Lambeth Palace. Here he tells Ben Dark about his hidden life as a link in thousand-year horticultural chain, about his unique philosophy of place-making and about how to work in dialogue with a garden. Nick's book:...
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[Solo Episode] Losing and Finding Beauty: Munstead, Laburnums and the Afterlife of Gardens
On this episode of Dear Gardener, host Ben Dark explores the legacy and afterlife of gardens. The starting points are: a Laburnum safari through Østerbro, a fence-climb into an abandoned garden, and a run through the acid-sands of West Sussex. Featuring Gertrude Jekyll, Edwin Lutyens and the...
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[Roving Episode] Hop Poles and Wild Garlic: A Hampshire Hangers Walk
On this episode of Dear Gardener, Ben Dark takes us on a journey through the wooded Hampshire Hangers, discussing plants and history along the way. Passing cowslips, wild garlic, incongruous copper beech, and wildly inappropriate bamboo, Ben shares his love-hate relationship with these plants and...
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[Roving Episode] It was a day in spring
Malus × domestica and Taraxacum officinale (apple and dandelion) take to May's springy stage in this special on location recording that starts deep in the beach woods and bursts into the orchard. https://ko-fi.com/bendark Episode overview: [00:00:16] Ben talks winter and spring weather and how it...
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[Solo Episode] Bread for all, and roses too
Tales of horticultural sin and floral redemption featuring Salvia, Nepeta, Carl the Murderous Gardener, Gypsophila and Hemerocallis. https://ko-fi.com/bendark Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit https://www.hatchards.co.uk/book/orwells-roses/rebecca-solnit/9781783785520 Husbandry by Isabel Bannerman...
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[Solo Episode] The week in gardening
In a solo episode that will probably be familiar to listeners of The Garden Log we discuss things horticultural. Some plants mentioned: Ipomoea noctiflora Euphorbia oblongata Tropaelum peregrinum Good to be back!
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The bird, the bees and the forest trees: the gardens of Brisbane, Devon and the Isle of Wight
We visit a gardener fighting gales to bring life to Tennyson’s neglected garden, talk to the keeper of bees at RHS Rosemoore and hear about a bush turkey with a nest the size of a bus Support the show: https://linktr.ee/deargardener https://ko-fi.com/bendark The Dear Gardeners on Instagram: Zara:...
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River floods and desert flowers: The gardens of Northern Kentucky, Bristol and Shrewsbury
Dear Gardener hears tales of native planting in Northern Kentucky, garden design in Bristol and flooding on the banks of the beautiful Severn. Also featuring a behind the scenes look at gardening TV, iris hunting in the the Negev Desert and why horticulture is lot like tech metal. Support the…
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Wisteria and water trees: The gardens of Santa Cruz, Brockley and the River Stour
In this episode of Dear Gardener we journey to California, East Anglia and South East London to hear about mothers and friendship, Sissinghurst and slugs, and roses and rills. Support the show: https://linktr.ee/deargardener https://ko-fi.com/bendark The Dear Gardeners on Instagram: Gavin:...
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Our tastes aligned: The gardens of Skipton, Bavaria and the Yorkshire Wolds
In this episode of the global gardening podcast we pitch up under the moors where a deck juts out over a grass and perennial garden, visit Bavaria and a terrace garden hidden behind veils of trailing tomato, hear tales from a fading walled garden and visit a unique garden full of rooms, owls,...
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Delivering Joy: The Gardens of Minnesota, Buenos Aires and Pennsylvania
We journey to a plant person’s garden between the Great Lakes and the Appalachian Mountains, an apartment amid the Palos Borrachos of Buenos Aires and an oak-topped bluff above the Minnesota River Valley. Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/bendark Episode links: The trees of Buenos Aires:...
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Dreaming of long borders: the gardens of Hampshire, Yaoundé and Philadelphia
We journey to Yaoundé, where the oil palms drip with ferns and a balcony gardener waits for the lemon grass harvest, Pennsylvania, where plants lead an architect astray and Hampshire, where meadows, lawns, hedges and fruit trees spring from land that once grew chicken sheds. Support the show:...
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Stone frogs and thirsty parrots: the gardens of Oxford, Long Island and The Cradle of Mankind
We visit Oxford, where the Head Gardener of Trinity College is preparing her winter displays, Long Island, where the director of the Madoo Conservancy practises 'forensic horticulture' to preserve the vision of poet, painter and plantsman Robert Dash, and the Granite Grasslands northwest of...
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How many episodes does Dear Gardener have?
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What is Dear Gardener about?
Gardening walks and green thoughts from award winning writer Ben Dark and guests.
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Dear Gardener is created and hosted by Ben Dark.
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