Gardens Illustrated Magazine

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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - March 2008 Mar 20, 2008

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Inspiration for spring with co-owner of nursery Secret Seeds, John Langston, giving tips on successful seed sowing. Then we talk to the head gardener at Hever Castle in Sussex to find out more about the garden's connection with the recent release of the film The Other Boleyn Girl. To find out more, visit www.gardensillustrated.com

BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - William Martin's Vista Lecture at the Museum of Gardening Feb 27, 2008

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Considered something as a agent provocateur in the horticultural world, William Martin describes himself as 'an artist whose ideas find their best expression in the garden'. In his talk he considers the complex relationships between landscape, environment, culture and society as revealed in his own garden Wigandia in southern Australia. To find out more, visit www.gardensillustrated.com

BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - February 2008 Feb 22, 2008

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Highlights of the February issue plus snowdrops with Dr John Grimshaw from Colesbourne gardens and columnist Frank Ronan talks about the pleasures of weeding. To find out more, visit www.gardensillustrated.com

BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - January 2008 Jan 22, 2008

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Highlights of the January issue plus tales from daring plant hunters. There's also an interview with author Tim Richardson, flagging up the series of discussions he is hosting together with Noel Kingsbury at the Museum of Garden History. He talks about the recent event with landscape designer Kim Wilkie. To find out more, visit www.gardensillustrated.com

BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Kim Wilkie's Vista Lecture at the Museum of Gardening Jan 21, 2008

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Landscape architect Kim Wilkie, whose projects include the V and A Museum garden, talks about ‘The Uses and Abuses of History’, discussing the issues of authenticity and appropriateness when it comes to garden restoration. How do we interpret the past and what are our responsibilities? Kim draws on his own experiences at Villa La Peitra in Florence, Heveningham Hall, Suffolk, Boughton Park, Northamptonshire and a private house in Hampshire, leading a lively and interesting debate. To find out more, visit www.gardensillustrated.com

BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - December 2007 Dec 05, 2007

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Florist Neil Honor of the Original Wreath Company takes us through making our own Christmas wreath using plants from the garden and Matthew Wilson, curator of the RHS garden at Harlow Carr, gives advice on a more sustainable approach to gardening. To find out more, visit www.gardensillustrated.com

BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - November 2007 Nov 01, 2007

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Forester Geoff Sinclair talks about the campaign to encourage the use of native-grown hazel poles in the garden, instead of bamboo from China; and in the wake of the publication of the late Christopher Lloyd’s last book Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners, Great Dixter’s head gardener Fergus Garrett talks about the bold Exotic Garden they created together. To find out more, visit www.gardensillustrated.com

BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - RGS lecture 2006 Q and A Oct 27, 2006

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RGS lecture 2006 with Beth Chatto and Dan Pearson Q and A. To find out more, visit www.gardensillustrated.com

BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - RGS lecture 2006 Oct 27, 2006

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RGS lecture 2006 with Beth Chatto and Dan Pearson. To find out more, visit www.gardensillustrated.com