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The Garden Log — 111 episodes

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Plants for problematic places, paths for ponderous people: a gardening podcast

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Heavenly Dishevelment

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Flight of the aspidistra

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Grey sedge, smuggled cuttings, a watering disaster and the new garden at Grosvenor Square

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Old roses, strange apples: finding beauty in the bleached bones of an English summer

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In praise of shadow, featuring Baroque hornbeams and Emily Brontë

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Green Fingers are the Extensions of a Verdant Heart: Russell Page and Redcurrants

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Green Ghosts and Fading Clones

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Hellos and Goodbyes

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How to keep plants alive (and other mysteries)

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Pine riots, wolf-vines and the joy of other people's gardens: A gardening podcast

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Underrated shrubs, sweet perfumes and the art of the Garden Room: A petal strewn podcast

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#100 Perfect mistakes, rhubarb, rollercoasters, tulips and timeslips: A gardening podcast

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#99 Wildflowers, Tyrants and Sweet Magnolia: A Gardening Podcast

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#98 [On Location] The good, the mad and the hyggeligt: front gardens of Hellerup

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#97 Of oligarchs, snowberries and other shade lovers: A gardening podcast

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#95 Rose pruning with King Midas: A gardening podcast

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#94 Sowing Eupatorium, seeing Sorbus and reverting Picea + The Grove, the wind, the snow and the seagulls

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#93 The surprising speed of Arum italicum: featuring Proust's Asparagus, Mahonia x media and the Aucuba fertilisation frenzy of 1865

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#92 [On Location] Life in the Ruins: Mutant brambles and runaway figs in the deserted village of Campo di Brenzone

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#91 [On Location] Kitchen Garden Confidential

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#90 [On Location] Bernstorff Slotshave 1: A good walk foiled

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#89 Copenhagen: city of roses (A gardening podcast)

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#88 Goodbye to all that

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#87 Acer griseum, Crocus chrysanthus, frost reports and water fountains: a gardening podcast

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#86 New discoveries, old adversaries and very strong coffee: A gardening podcast

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#85 Russian sage, British mud, almond puddings: A gardening podcast

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#85 How to rehabilitate an olive, revive a flowerbed and restore a rockery

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#83 Hard edges, cold winds and twelve thousand little droplets of hope: A gardening podcast

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#82 Scything for beginners, rose pruning for experts and lawn mowing for everyone

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#81 Yellow trees, purple trees and Isabella Trees + naked calendars, shredded perennials and a new vegetable garden.

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#80 How to choose bog plants for dry gardens, plant a wild urn and massively amplify astrantias

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#79 The economy of beauty: tree ferns, aconites, thermopsis and frost

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#78 Creative weeding, lily beetles and impossibly clashing shades of tulip

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#77 How to argue about tulips, judge front gardens and appreciate euphorbia

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#76 How to make a very new tree look old and beautiful, plant a heather canyon and measure a life in rosebuds

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#75 How to select hardy geraniums, fake the wild look and survive two storms in a week

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#74 Training figs, burying barns under clematis montana, and cutting back hybrid hellebores: A gardening podcast

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#73 Twenty-three thuja, two-hundred-thousand worms and one almighty disaster - happy new year everybody!

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#72 How to lift dahlias, grow summer fruiting raspberries, naturalise scilla and be a horticultural vigilante

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#71 Gardeners' wages, frozen toes and martagon lilies: A horticultural podcast

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#70 Agapanthus and autumn flowering snowdrops

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#69 Hot tea and rainclouds: a week in an English garden

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#68 Slug life, magnolia death and a ground elder invasion: A gardening podcast

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#67 Three-thousand true blue pansies, playing with epimedium and finding the right path for candelabra primulas: A gardening podcast

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#66 The trouble with dahlias, meadow mowing and stylish underplanting for the stylish gardener

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#65 Planting a pagan yew grove, playing the delphinium blues and preaching the wallflower gospel: a gardening podcast

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#64 High summer meadows, the hottest day on record and falling in love with a saxifraga: A gardening podcast.

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#63 Poppies, roses, wood sorrels and willow herbs: A gardening podcast

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#62 Acanthus out, clematis up, lawns in a horrible yellow mess: A gardening podcast

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#61 Spent delphiniums, silver ragwort and prehistoric planting: A gardening podcast

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#60 Adventures in the cosmos hole: red thread, ranunculus, obelisks and chalk

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#59 Houttuynia (tastes like fish) bracken (gets stamped on) and Uvdale Price (is full of regrets): A gardening podcast!

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#58 Pitching for TV, the cool green cave and fighting the orange fire: a gardening podcast

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#57 A week in the garden

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#56 Potting lemons, splitting day lilies, paranoia, drunkenness and burning down the Hyde Park Pagoda

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#55 How to take risks, unwrap ferns and apply for gardening's most prestigious job

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#54 Molasses lawn-soup, foaming scilla and how to hire a pliant gardener

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#53 Frosted five fingers, Taxus soufflé and the sweet smell of sunrise

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#52 Magnolia grandiflora, mud soup and flowers from beyond

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#51 Training a climbing rose, mistimed bulb planting and planning your perfect grave

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#50 How to prune an apple tree, date a horticulturalist and see compost in all you survey

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#49 Heretical hellebores, scarecrow grass and building a satellite compost heap

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Gertrude Jekyll, Dianella and the Garden Media Guild

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#47 Tea, textiles and the wetting winds of winter

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#46 Tasteful jackets for tender plants - distasteful cocktails for dissolute gardeners

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New plants for new borders, camellia sasanqua and next year's hottest wildflowers

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Chilean guava, bulb migraines and hot benches - its season two of the Garden Log

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#43 How to prune lavender with a tractor, plant a disease resistant elm and effectively ruin your lawn

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#42 Melianthus cuttings, luxury weeding and the orchid factor

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#41 How to batter your hedge, break your mower and grow cabbages with George Orwell

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#40 Attack of the box tree caterpillar, bright plants for brick walls and other gardening nightmares

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#39 Sacrifice and scarification: A gardening podcast

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#38 Wisteria's summer prune, ordering spring bulbs and heaps of steaming compost

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#37 Under the old oak tree: Forget-me-nots, enchanters nightshade and beetles everywhere

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#36 Scything meadows, cutting dahlias and battling Cthulhu weed

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Decorative grass, Edwardian fuss and sun-bright pots of summer zinnia

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#34 Mashed wallflowers, orange echinacea and the Willow of Babylon

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#33 Hot rocks, head gardeners and hydrangea vines

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#32 Weeds, wounds and weddings

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#31 Wisteria standards, insect shoes and the woeful washing-line tree

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#30 The hairiest flower bed in London

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#29 Bad choices, royal molluscs and tree fern tips

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#28 Sharp hedges, red beetles and perfect compost

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#27 Globe flowers, half-eaten hydrangeas and planning a cut-flower garden

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Top class grass and brilliant Bartzella

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#25 Sun, slugs and soil

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#24 Nerine dreams

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#23 Snake oil, shams and the hell that man hath wrought: A week in the garden with The Garden Log

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#22 Tree circles, espaliers for uninspiring spaces and how to build a rugged rockery

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#21 How to pot dahlias, protect your orchard roses and generally be a much better gardener

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#20 The Beast from the East

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#19 Designing with bulbous bedding, pricking out and dividing deciduous ferns

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#18 Cold Comfort

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#17 Shade grass, Nairn's London and semi-digested tulips

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#16 To the treehouse

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#15 Hangovers, horti-talk and hardy geraniums

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#14 The Diet of Worms

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#13 Breaking new ground

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Episode 12: There's no business like snow business

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Episode 11: Himalayan nutmeg, protecting tree ferns and freezing half to death on a small tractor

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Episode 10: How to pot paperwhites, prune figs and scandalise your great great great grandmother

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Episode 9: If dandelions were hard to grow

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Episode 8: Compost leeching, Iris psuedacorus and psychological tips for leaf collection

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Episode 7: Dystopian flower beds made easy!

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Episode 6: Social learning in squirrels, the Ipomoea report and dairy farming with Richard Burton

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Episode 5: High-speed hedges, flaming foliage and pruning properly

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Episode 4: A river of violas, bare-root wallflowers and planting daffodils in the week of the orange sun

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Episode 3: Flagging hostas, friendly beetles and appreciating the everyday green

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Episode 2: Flopping colchicums, balding Bhutan pines and funny writing about flax

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Episode 1: Introductions, withered chestnuts and the Professional Gardeners Guild