The Garden Log
By Ben Dark
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Episodes: 100
Description
The Garden Log is an award winning podcast from Ben Dark, Head Gardener at an English country estate. Episodes begin with a review of events in the flowerbeds, meadows and woodland, before moving on to discuss horticultural matters more generally.
Ben is an ever-curious host who does not take himself, his job or gardening too seriously. A half-hour spent in his company is a half-hour spent far away from the myriad concerns of modern life.
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Hellos and Goodbyes
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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How to keep plants alive (and other mysteries)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Pine riots, wolf-vines and the joy of other people's gardens: A gardening podcast
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May 20, 2022 |
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Underrated shrubs, sweet perfumes and the art of the Garden Room: A petal strewn podcast
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May 12, 2022 |
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#100 Perfect mistakes, rhubarb, rollercoasters, tulips and timeslips: A gardening podcast
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May 05, 2022 |
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#99 Wildflowers, Tyrants and Sweet Magnolia: A Gardening Podcast
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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#98 [On Location] The good, the mad and the hyggeligt: front gardens of Hellerup
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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#97 Of oligarchs, snowberries and other shade lovers: A gardening podcast
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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#95 Rose pruning with King Midas: A gardening podcast
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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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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Jan 28, 2022 |
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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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Jan 19, 2022 |
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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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Nov 08, 2021 |
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#91 [On Location] Kitchen Garden Confidential
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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#90 [On Location] Bernstorff Slotshave 1: A good walk foiled
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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#89 Copenhagen: city of roses (A gardening podcast)
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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#88 Goodbye to all that
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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#87 Acer griseum, Crocus chrysanthus, frost reports and water fountains: a gardening podcast
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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#86 New discoveries, old adversaries and very strong coffee: A gardening podcast
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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#85 Russian sage, British mud, almond puddings: A gardening podcast
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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#85 How to rehabilitate an olive, revive a flowerbed and restore a rockery
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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#83 Hard edges, cold winds and twelve thousand little droplets of hope: A gardening podcast
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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#82 Scything for beginners, rose pruning for experts and lawn mowing for everyone
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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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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Jul 05, 2020 |
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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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Jun 10, 2020 |
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#79 The economy of beauty: tree ferns, aconites, thermopsis and frost
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May 15, 2020 |
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#78 Creative weeding, lily beetles and impossibly clashing shades of tulip
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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#77 How to argue about tulips, judge front gardens and appreciate euphorbia
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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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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Mar 11, 2020 |
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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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Feb 19, 2020 |
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#74 Training figs, burying barns under clematis montana, and cutting back hybrid hellebores: A gardening podcast
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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#73 Twenty-three thuja, two-hundred-thousand worms and one almighty disaster - happy new year everybody!
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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#72 How to lift dahlias, grow summer fruiting raspberries, naturalise scilla and be a horticultural vigilante
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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#71 Gardeners’ wages, frozen toes and martagon lilies: A horticultural podcast
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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#70 Agapanthus and autumn flowering snowdrops
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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#69 Hot tea and rainclouds: a week in an English garden
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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#68 Slug life, magnolia death and a ground elder invasion: A gardening podcast
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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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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Sep 24, 2019 |
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#66 The trouble with dahlias, meadow mowing and stylish underplanting for the stylish gardener
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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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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Aug 23, 2019 |
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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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Jul 30, 2019 |
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#63 Poppies, roses, wood sorrels and willow herbs: A gardening podcast
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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#62 Acanthus out, clematis up, lawns in a horrible yellow mess: A gardening podcast
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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#61 Spent delphiniums, silver ragwort and prehistoric planting: A gardening podcast
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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#60 Adventures in the cosmos hole: red thread, ranunculus, obelisks and chalk
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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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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Jun 18, 2019 |
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#58 Pitching for TV, the cool green cave and fighting the orange fire: a gardening podcast
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May 30, 2019 |
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#57 A week in the garden
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May 24, 2019 |
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#56 Potting lemons, splitting day lilies, paranoia, drunkenness and burning down the Hyde Park Pagoda
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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#55 How to take risks, unwrap ferns and apply for gardening’s most prestigious job
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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#54 Molasses lawn-soup, foaming scilla and how to hire a pliant gardener
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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#53 Frosted five fingers, Taxus soufflé and the sweet smell of sunrise
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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#52 Magnolia grandiflora, mud soup and flowers from beyond
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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#51 Training a climbing rose, mistimed bulb planting and planning your perfect grave
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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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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Jan 21, 2019 |
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#49 Heretical hellebores, scarecrow grass and building a satellite compost heap
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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Gertrude Jekyll, Dianella and the Garden Media Guild
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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#47 Tea, textiles and the wetting winds of winter
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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#46 Tasteful jackets for tender plants - distasteful cocktails for dissolute gardeners
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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New plants for new borders, camellia sasanqua and next year’s hottest wildflowers
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Oct 22, 2018 |
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Chilean guava, bulb migraines and hot benches - its season two of the Garden Log
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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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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Sep 27, 2018 |
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#42 Melianthus cuttings, luxury weeding and the orchid factor
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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#41 How to batter your hedge, break your mower and grow cabbages with George Orwell
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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#40 Attack of the box tree caterpillar, bright plants for brick walls and other gardening nightmares
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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#39 Sacrifice and scarification: A gardening podcast
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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#38 Wisteria’s summer prune, ordering spring bulbs and heaps of steaming compost
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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#37 Under the old oak tree: Forget-me-nots, enchanters nightshade and beetles everywhere
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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#36 Scything meadows, cutting dahlias and battling Cthulhu weed
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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Decorative grass, Edwardian fuss and sun-bright pots of summer zinnia
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Jul 28, 2018 |
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#34 Mashed wallflowers, orange echinacea and the Willow of Babylon
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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#33 Hot rocks, head gardeners and hydrangea vines
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Jul 13, 2018 |
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#32 Weeds, wounds and weddings
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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#31 Wisteria standards, insect shoes and the woeful washing-line tree
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Jun 15, 2018 |
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#30 The hairiest flower bed in London
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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#29 Bad choices, royal molluscs and tree fern tips
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May 31, 2018 |
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#28 Sharp hedges, red beetles and perfect compost
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May 17, 2018 |
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#27 Globe flowers, half-eaten hydrangeas and planning a cut-flower garden
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May 10, 2018 |
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Top class grass and brilliant Bartzella
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May 03, 2018 |
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#25 Sun, slugs and soil
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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#24 Nerine dreams
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Apr 04, 2018 |
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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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Mar 28, 2018 |
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#22 Tree circles, espaliers for uninspiring spaces and how to build a rugged rockery
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Mar 21, 2018 |
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#21 How to pot dahlias, protect your orchard roses and generally be a much better gardener
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Mar 14, 2018 |
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#20 The Beast from the East
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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#19 Designing with bulbous bedding, pricking out and dividing deciduous ferns
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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#18 Cold Comfort
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Feb 21, 2018 |
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#17 Shade grass, Nairn's London and semi-digested tulips
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Feb 11, 2018 |
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#16 To the treehouse
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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#15 Hangovers, horti-talk and hardy geraniums
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Jan 25, 2018 |
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#14 The Diet of Worms
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Jan 18, 2018 |
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#13 Breaking new ground
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Jan 10, 2018 |
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Episode 12: There’s no business like snow business
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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Episode 11: Himalayan nutmeg, protecting tree ferns and freezing half to death on a small tractor
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Dec 13, 2017 |
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Episode 10: How to pot paperwhites, prune figs and scandalise your great great great grandmother
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Dec 06, 2017 |
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Episode 9: If dandelions were hard to grow
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Nov 29, 2017 |
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Episode 8: Compost leeching, Iris psuedacorus and psychological tips for leaf collection
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Nov 22, 2017 |
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Episode 7: Dystopian flower beds made easy!
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Nov 15, 2017 |
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Episode 6: Social learning in squirrels, the Ipomoea report and dairy farming with Richard Burton
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Nov 08, 2017 |
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Episode 5: High-speed hedges, flaming foliage and pruning properly
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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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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Oct 25, 2017 |