Dear Gardener

Latest Episodes:

Our tastes aligned: The gardens of Skipton, Bavaria and the Yorkshire Wolds Nov 08, 2022

Show notes

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, compost and ideas.

Support the show: https://linktr.ee/deargardener

Episode links:

Emma’s tulip Slawa: https://www.sarahraven.com/products/tulip-slawa

Dan Pearson Studio: http://danpearsonstudio.com/

Emma's garden designer Matt Haddon: https://haddon.studio/

Some heritage tomatoes: https://www.allotment-garden.org/vegetable/how-to-grow-your-own-tomatoes/heirloom-heritage-tomatoes/

Phlomis tuberosa ‘Amazone’: https://www.rhsplants.co.uk/plants/_/phlomis-tuberosa-amazone/classid.2000022949/

Sweet Woodruff: https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/7595/galium-odoratum/details

The Dear Gardeners on Instagram:

Emma: https://www.instagram.com/paddockwoodgarden/

Bianca: https://www.instagram.com/plants_and_whiskers/

Liam: https://www.instagram.com/liamdaviesgardens/

Thank you for listening

Delivering Joy: The Gardens of Minnesota, Buenos Aires and Pennsylvania Nov 01, 2022

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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: https://landingpadba.com/buenos-aires-tree-guide/

Tsubo-niwa (pocket gardens): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsubo-niwa

The Bluet Houstonia caerulea: https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/houstonia-caerulea/

A Pattern Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language

For copies of Ben’s book, The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens go here: https://linktr.ee/deargardener

The dear gardeners on Instagram:

Alicia: https://www.instagram.com/kalijardin

Julie: https://www.instagram.com/juliewitmergardens

Michael: https://www.instagram.com/sneaky.productions/

Dreaming of long borders: the gardens of Hampshire, Yaoundé and Philadelphia Oct 25, 2022

Show notes

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: https://ko-fi.com/bendark

Episode links:

Tivoli Gardens: https://www.tivoli.dk/en/haven-og-forlystelser/skoenne-steder

Narcissus ‘W. P. Milner’: https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/76761/narcissus-w-p-milner-(1)/details

African plums, or Safou, Dacryodes edulis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacryodes_edulis

The amazing black medic: https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/105551/medicago-lupulina/details

For copies of Ben’s book, The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens go here: https://linktr.ee/deargardener

The dear gardeners on Instagram:

Jonathan: https://www.instagram.com/jbykowski/

Karen: https://www.instagram.com/mrsnorris34/

Christoph: https://www.instagram.com/christophsgaertli/

Stone frogs and thirsty parrots: the gardens of Oxford, Long Island and The Cradle of Mankind Oct 17, 2022

Show notes

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 Johannesburg where Viqui is waiting for rain and the flowers it will bring.

Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/bendark

Episode links:

The landscapes of Fernando Caruncho: https://web.fernandocaruncho.com/en/

The Gardens of Trinity College: https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/gardens-grounds

The Madoo Conservancy: https://www.madoo.org

The dear gardeners on instagram:

Kate Burtonwood: https://www.instagram.com/cultivatedgardener/

Alejandro Saralegui: https://www.instagram.com/alemadoo/

Viqui (thepotagergardener): https://www.instagram.com/thepotagergardener/

Buy Ben's brilliant book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grove-Nature-Odyssey-Front-Gardens/dp/1784727385

Happy gardening!