The Garden Log (Ben Dark)
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| 10 Jan 2018 | #13 Breaking new ground | 00:25:42 | |
In this episode we talk deadwood, Pope, bonsai and hope. With excitement and worry the ground is broken on a new area of the garden. Ben surveys the damage wrought by winter and fails to clean the greenhouse. | |||
| 20 Jul 2018 | #34 Mashed wallflowers, orange echinacea and the Willow of Babylon | 00:30:46 | |
In hazy midsummer Ben Dark tells stories about trees and recommends some border-filling plants for mid-summer swaps | |||
| 15 Aug 2018 | #38 Wisteria’s summer prune, ordering spring bulbs and heaps of steaming compost | 00:26:51 | |
In this episode wisteria is tamed, lawnmowers are ridden like chariots and rain falls like an upturned river. Also, advice on how to steal ideas and a discussion of the horticultural tasks that every good gardener should master | |||
| 05 Jul 2018 | #32 Weeds, wounds and weddings | 00:27:17 | |
In this episode we learn the subtle art of deadheading, learn when not to weed and eat some wild carrot. All in a week's work for The Garden Log | |||
| 13 Jul 2018 | #33 Hot rocks, head gardeners and hydrangea vines | 00:31:50 | |
In this hot episode of Britain's favourite horticultural podcast we labour in desperate pursuit of beauty. Also, tips on how to NOT boil your plants, which bacopa is not worth the seed price and staying safe with cycads. Have fun gardeners! | |||
| 17 May 2018 | #28 Sharp hedges, red beetles and perfect compost | 00:23:40 | |
In this episode we lean how to pop lily beetles, prune box hedging and mix the perfect compost | |||
| 23 Oct 2019 | #69 Hot tea and rainclouds: a week in an English garden | 00:26:26 | |
Head Gardener Ben Dark considers the dock, rejects time travel, splits bananas and plants cyclamen | |||
| 14 Mar 2018 | #21 How to pot dahlias, protect your orchard roses and generally be a much better gardener | 00:27:57 | |
In this episode we learn the arcane arts of the dahlia fancier, build a wall around the Malvern Hills and sow seeds of coming summer's army. No podcast has muddier boots | |||
| 08 Nov 2021 | #92 [On Location] Life in the Ruins: Mutant brambles and runaway figs in the deserted village of Campo di Brenzone | 00:38:16 | |
In this starling-squalled episode of the Garden Log Ben is turned away from the botanic garden and makes his way to the mountains of Italy to talk about vegetables, olives and the Villa Cimbrone https://ko-fi.com/bendark | |||
| 10 Jun 2020 | #80 How to choose bog plants for dry gardens, plant a wild urn and massively amplify astrantias | 00:40:19 | |
This week the gardeners spread outrageous herbaceous perennials to all corners of the garden and report from the meadow. Ligularia 'Zepter' The Albertus Oak Mysteries: Amazon UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B084TRFVNF Ko-fi.com/bendark | |||
| 09 Dec 2019 | #72 How to lift dahlias, grow summer fruiting raspberries, naturalise scilla and be a horticultural vigilante | 00:31:43 | |
In this early December episode of the Garden Log Ben plants bulbs at three per second, worries about citrus trees, looks into the rooting capacity of autumn soil and encounters mob justice in Finsbury Park | |||
| 07 Mar 2018 | #20 The Beast from the East | 00:24:29 | |
In which I talk about sweet peas, fall off my bicycle and get snowed on. | |||
| 11 Feb 2018 | #17 Shade grass, Nairn's London and semi-digested tulips | 00:24:35 | |
We’re getting shady with hakonechloa, geums and liriope. Also Nairn’s London, and a load of half eaten tulips The important thing to remember about this episode is that every time I say Tangerine Dream I actually mean Totally Tangerine | |||
| 25 Jun 2019 | #60 Adventures in the cosmos hole: red thread, ranunculus, obelisks and chalk | 00:22:08 | |
In this weeks episode Ben ruins a York stone path, heaves some iron and reflects on horticultural lessons learned. | |||
| 12 May 2022 | Underrated shrubs, sweet perfumes and the art of the Garden Room: A petal strewn podcast | 00:32:34 | |
In this recreation of a lost walk Ben visits the garden of G. N Brandt (deceased) who brought the arts and crafts movement to Denmark and whose modest orchard-watergarden-woodland survives in the suburbs north of Copenhagen. | |||
| 21 Feb 2018 | #18 Cold Comfort | 00:32:41 | |
A blue fingered tale of citrus pruning and acer potting. Featuring Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley and William 'Bury Me In My Tree' Lucombe | |||
| 19 Nov 2019 | #71 Gardeners’ wages, frozen toes and martagon lilies: A horticultural podcast | 00:24:37 | |
In this November episode of the garden log Ben rescues a flopped wisteria, plants vast quantities of spring bulbs, starts the mulching and discusses the best technique for clearing leaves from saturated soil. | |||
| 06 Sep 2018 | #41 How to batter your hedge, break your mower and grow cabbages with George Orwell | 00:29:29 | |
In this literally groundbreaking episode of The Garden Log Ben experiments with home remedies for powdery mildew, cuts hedges, talks about flowers and drives into a fox hole.
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| 10 Aug 2020 | #82 Scything for beginners, rose pruning for experts and lawn mowing for everyone | 00:27:51 | |
n this hot and humid episode of Britain’s Best Gardening Podcast Ben deals with a rambling rose, learns a new technique and tries to hide the damage of midsummer heat.
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| 12 Mar 2021 | #87 Acer griseum, Crocus chrysanthus, frost reports and water fountains: a gardening podcast | 00:32:44 | |
Spring breezes blow the daffodils as Ben reports on the damage that winter hath wrought and the beauty of new growth
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| 02 Jul 2019 | #61 Spent delphiniums, silver ragwort and prehistoric planting: A gardening podcast | 00:23:40 | |
In this episode of the Garden Log Ben cuts back the mint in preparation for mojito season, erects a rhomboid arch and talks extensively about stinging nettles. Enjoy! | |||
| 31 Jan 2018 | #16 To the treehouse | 00:23:12 | |
In this week's episode we discuss the Felco fetish, winter prune wisteria, plant parrotia and have a seedy talk. All plants, all gardens, all recorded in a treehouse.
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| 30 Aug 2018 | #40 Attack of the box tree caterpillar, bright plants for brick walls and other gardening nightmares | 00:31:18 | |
This week the Garden Log is infested. Not that we let it stop us creating a beautiful new border or taking a trip to Oxford. No crying please, lets all talk about flowers | |||
| 26 Nov 2018 | #47 Tea, textiles and the wetting winds of winter | 00:27:39 | |
In this episode mulch is spread and coats are donned. Also, the philosophy of winter lawn care. Podcast best paired with some spiced herbal infusion. | |||
| 02 Aug 2021 | #89 Copenhagen: city of roses (A gardening podcast) | 00:29:36 | |
In this northerly episode of The Garden Log Ben discusses lime trees, hollyhocks, hedge heights and salsify and is refreshed by the Scandinavian approach to Japanese Knotweed. | |||
| 07 Mar 2019 | #54 Molasses lawn-soup, foaming scilla and how to hire a pliant gardener | 00:25:52 | |
Sap rises in this long anticipated episode of the Garden Log. We take a trip to see the gurus of grass, move a statue without the help of helicopters and get excited about spring bulbs. A podcast for people who like people who like plants! | |||
| 28 Jan 2019 | #51 Training a climbing rose, mistimed bulb planting and planning your perfect grave | 00:25:16 | |
This week on the Log we bring order to thorny chaos, yearn for the perfect snowdrop and careen down hills in the snow.
Your money back if you find a more horticultural half hour! | |||
| 31 May 2018 | #29 Bad choices, royal molluscs and tree fern tips | 00:28:00 | |
In this episode we review some gardening mistakes I made in the first half of 2018.
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| 30 Jun 2021 | #88 Goodbye to all that | 00:32:05 | |
In the last episode of the Garden Log’s three-and-half-year ‘season 1’ Ben reflects on the garden and looks forward a new chapter… www.ko-fi.com/bendark | |||
| 24 Sep 2019 | #67 Three-thousand true blue pansies, playing with epimedium and finding the right path for candelabra primulas: A gardening podcast | 00:25:54 | |
In this sun-kissed episode of the garden log we mix bedding plants with grasses, plant up an ancient stone trough and slander Edwardian sailors. A podcast for people who like gardens and the people who garden them. | |||
| 01 Nov 2017 | Episode 5: High-speed hedges, flaming foliage and pruning properly | 00:26:34 | |
This week we focus on root-balled yew, how to get the best from your beautyberry and plan on transforming the garden into just the right sort of fiery hell-pit. More gardens, gardening and horticultural advice from The Garden Log. | |||
| 18 Feb 2019 | #53 Frosted five fingers, Taxus soufflé and the sweet smell of sunrise | 00:27:41 | |
Sarcococca scented signs of spring to come. This week verges are repaired, hedges replanted and strange sights spotted in the trees. Very much a gardening podcast from the makers of the Garden Log episodes 1-52 | |||
| 09 Jul 2019 | #62 Acanthus out, clematis up, lawns in a horrible yellow mess: A gardening podcast | 00:30:27 | |
In this week’s heat-drenched episode of the Garden Log Ben makes a terrible mistake, battles powdery mildew and coats himself in a layer of thorns, twigs and earwigs. No other half-hour contains more gardening - fact!
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| 05 May 2022 | #100 Perfect mistakes, rhubarb, rollercoasters, tulips and timeslips: A gardening podcast | 00:30:47 | |
Its spring and Ben is gardening hard. In a special dispatch from the flowerbeds he reports on sparrows, cosmos and creeping jenny. Also featuring a trip to the fairground, tabloid libel and a woman named X
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| 22 Nov 2017 | Episode 8: Compost leeching, Iris psuedacorus and psychological tips for leaf collection | 00:23:57 | |
Now back in England, hands firmly in the soil, head high in the clouds. Its time to talk compost. Also, I'll be flagging some issues with Iris pseudacorus and conducting a survey of the flowering plants still braving the November chill. As always, questions and feedback to thegardenlogpodcast@gmail.com @Bensgarden Happy gardening! | |||
| 26 Apr 2022 | #99 Wildflowers, Tyrants and Sweet Magnolia: A Gardening Podcast | 00:36:49 | |
Ben discusses Ornithogolum, irises, poppies and golden fleece. Also featuring a trip to the Boboli gardens in Florence and a reading from The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 1/2 Front Gardens - recently described by The Daily Telegraph as ‘the best gardening book of 2022’ and available to order from everywhere here: linktr.ee/bendark
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| 20 May 2022 | Pine riots, wolf-vines and the joy of other people's gardens: A gardening podcast | 00:39:58 | |
Its a sultry spring day on the Garden Log. We muse on the kindness of strangers, advise on planting for a rubble-strewn drive and yearn for romance. | |||
| 25 Oct 2017 | Episode 4: A river of violas, bare-root wallflowers and planting daffodils in the week of the orange sun | 00:25:09 | |
In this episode find out how to bring joy to bare flower beds and discover which common weed has clove flavoured roots. Also, seasonal advice on biannual bedding and how to plant bulbs on a grand scale. | |||
| 05 Jul 2020 | #81 Yellow trees, purple trees and Isabella Trees + naked calendars, shredded perennials and a new vegetable garden. | 00:26:36 | |
In this wind buffeted episode of the Garden Log Ben takes a risk in the compost heap, plants some very special trees and batters the hedges. | |||
| 30 Jul 2019 | #64 High summer meadows, the hottest day on record and falling in love with a saxifraga: A gardening podcast. | 00:29:09 | |
In liquidating heat Ben plants, digs, sweats and chops when he should be drinking in the shade - all in the name of Beauty! Also, how to look at a familiar garden in a totally new light. This and much more in episode 64 of the award winning Garden Log podcast. | |||
| 13 Sep 2018 | #42 Melianthus cuttings, luxury weeding and the orchid factor | 00:30:34 | |
September arrives with cold mornings and new smells. We start propagating next year's superstars, indulge in luxury weeding and discuss why now is the time for new gardening projects. Thirty minutes of horticultural reflection and comment. Contentment guaranteed | |||
| 09 Nov 2018 | #46 Tasteful jackets for tender plants - distasteful cocktails for dissolute gardeners | 00:27:41 | |
In blazing autumn Ben plants an eccentric new foliage garden and worries if he has made a huge mistake. Also, massed ranks of hellebores, planting a hula-hedge and how to wrap your tree fern.
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| 07 Jun 2018 | #30 The hairiest flower bed in London | 00:30:37 | |
In this episode we visit a disgusting flower bed, learn how to start a hospital for orchids and wax on about oriental poppies. Also, aphid control, plant buying and Derek Jarman thegardenlogpodcast@gmail.com | |||
| 28 Mar 2018 | #23 Snake oil, shams and the hell that man hath wrought: A week in the garden with The Garden Log | 00:27:31 | |
In this episode we do muddy battle with a pine tree, try some new shade lovers and take a trip to the nursery for coffee and carrot cake | |||
| 06 Dec 2017 | Episode 10: How to pot paperwhites, prune figs and scandalise your great great great grandmother | 00:26:59 | |
In this episode we take to the waves with a question from the canal-side. I’m talking the language of flowers and giving evergreen advice for early December.
Join me for another muddy-kneed tour of the English garden.
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| 21 Dec 2017 | Episode 12: There’s no business like snow business | 00:24:42 | |
It's bare root hedges with Philip of Macedon and thick-headed gardeners with Mr Kipling in this barnstorming episode of The Garden Log | |||
| 12 Feb 2019 | #52 Magnolia grandiflora, mud soup and flowers from beyond | 00:26:53 | |
This week snow melts and rain pelts, trees rise and deer subside and we find thorny new ways to ornament walls @Bensgarden
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| 19 Jan 2022 | #93 The surprising speed of Arum italicum: featuring Proust’s Asparagus, Mahonia x media and the Aucuba fertilisation frenzy of 1865 | 00:26:58 | |
Celebrate the return of the Garden Log with some of your favourite shrubs! Plus mulch shovelling, cotinus and some dodgey but lovable carex
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| 15 Jun 2018 | #31 Wisteria standards, insect shoes and the woeful washing-line tree | 00:28:39 | |
Welcome to episode 31 of the garden log. This week we are firm but fair to wisteria, we are filling our boots with ants and we are dissing some bugle. An unmissable feast for your horticultural imagination
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| 18 Oct 2022 | Hellos and Goodbyes | 00:05:55 | |
A fond farewell from Ben and directions to the new podcast Dear Gardener, where the Garden Log lives on in spirit. I'm going to keep the Garden Log online for those who want to relisten or are finding it for the first time. I'm think ready to start again from the beginning! Dear Gardener can be found on apple here: https://linktr.ee/deargardener
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| 30 May 2019 | #58 Pitching for TV, the cool green cave and fighting the orange fire: a gardening podcast | 00:26:17 | |
This week Ben completes the woodland garden, rediscovers a gardening archive and sends the herbaceous borders off in a blaze of glory | |||
| 29 Nov 2017 | Episode 9: If dandelions were hard to grow | 00:29:23 | |
This was a windy, thrifty, rotten sort of week. I'm talking medlars, erotic Persian gardening, phytophthora and robin training. Just November things. @Bensgarden thegardenlogpodcast@gmail.com | |||
| 13 Dec 2017 | Episode 11: Himalayan nutmeg, protecting tree ferns and freezing half to death on a small tractor | 00:25:42 | |
This wintery broadcast investigates how to put the garden to bed for winter and debunks some ancient Chinese wisdom. Also, green alkanet, blackbirds, foxgloves and hylotelephium. Maybe a hot cup of tea would go well with this episode? | |||
| 28 Feb 2018 | #19 Designing with bulbous bedding, pricking out and dividing deciduous ferns | 00:27:20 | |
In this episode we talk out pricking out, split a male fern, prepare for artic blasts and admire a mushroom cloud of hazel. Its just bursting with info-microbes! | |||
| 21 Dec 2020 | #85 Russian sage, British mud, almond puddings: A gardening podcast | 00:27:44 | |
Ben discusses snowdrop planting, creates a forget-me-not dream screen and warns of the dangers of the plum bun.
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| 15 May 2020 | #79 The economy of beauty: tree ferns, aconites, thermopsis and frost | 00:31:55 | |
In this daring episode of Britain’s favourite gardening podcast Ben comes up the wrong side of the weather, explains how to divide dahlias and encounters an exciting new plant. | |||
| 01 Oct 2019 | #68 Slug life, magnolia death and a ground elder invasion: A gardening podcast | 00:30:15 | |
This week the Garden Log gets into the weeds. Barrowloads of brambles, some nettles, wood avens, ground elder, dandelions and purple cherry plum. Also! Dog's tooth violets, camassias, water pipes and flooded lanes. | |||
| 10 Feb 2022 | #95 Rose pruning with King Midas: A gardening podcast | 00:32:18 | |
What’s more tangled: a neglected climber or or human morality? The Garden Log sticks its head into thorns and finds out. | |||
| 03 May 2018 | Top class grass and brilliant Bartzella | 00:30:54 | |
In this episode we reveal the scientific secrets of the perfect croquet lawn and chuck a load of plants in on the compost heap for being the wrong shade of white. Also, weeding, feeding, reading and seeding. Spring is here. Gloves on, headphones in - time for another episode of The Garden Log!
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| 15 Oct 2018 | Chilean guava, bulb migraines and hot benches - its season two of the Garden Log | 00:28:11 | |
Season two. The Garden Log celebrates its first birthday with wit, wisdom and a day trip to Hampton Court.
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| 28 Sep 2020 | #83 Hard edges, cold winds and twelve thousand little droplets of hope: A gardening podcast | 00:24:47 | |
In this season-straddling episode of the Garden Log Ben discusses the art of horticultural gossip, rides a new machine, names many beetles and get the business of bulb planting under way. ko-fi.com/bendark | |||
| 04 Apr 2018 | #24 Nerine dreams | 00:17:57 | |
In this episode we scoop holes in the mud and smear in fabulous summer bulbs Also, how to pot nerines and writing better by knowing less | |||
| 14 Jan 2020 | #73 Twenty-three thuja, two-hundred-thousand worms and one almighty disaster - happy new year everybody! | 00:30:44 | |
In this episode of the Garden Log Ben celebrates very happy news, makes some awful horticultural mistakes, plants roses and talks of irrigation. | |||
| 11 Jan 2021 | #86 New discoveries, old adversaries and very strong coffee: A gardening podcast | 00:33:18 | |
In this midwinter episode of the Garden Log Ben plays dice with the Gods of Winter, prunes ground cover roses and discusses the newty beauty of psuedopanax | |||
| 09 Aug 2018 | #37 Under the old oak tree: Forget-me-nots, enchanters nightshade and beetles everywhere | 00:22:33 | |
In this cheese-wine charmed episode of The Garden Log we talk meadows, short lived perennials, lilly-beetles, and acorns. We also pay a visit to a National Trust garden and travel back in time to meet a Victorian head gardener | |||
| 28 Jul 2018 | Decorative grass, Edwardian fuss and sun-bright pots of summer zinnia | 00:27:22 | |
In this episode we go garish for a garden fiesta, learn how to use ornamental grass to soften harsh borders and go scrumping for black mulberries. All this and more in the latest episode of Britain’s most addictive gardening podcast. | |||
| 22 Aug 2018 | #39 Sacrifice and scarification: A gardening podcast | 00:27:24 | |
In this episode of the Garden Log we drop in on a suave french landscape architect, rip out some grass, laugh in the face of ugliness and soak our eyes in beauty. Not since Eden have plants and people been in such perfect harmony. | |||
| 06 Nov 2019 | #70 Agapanthus and autumn flowering snowdrops | 00:30:52 | |
In this blazing autumnal episode of the Garden Log Ben takes a trip to Mottisfont Abbey and RHS Wisley. Also, hellebores, peonies, variegated yew, mud eating and much much more | |||
| 22 Oct 2018 | New plants for new borders, camellia sasanqua and next year’s hottest wildflowers | 00:26:31 | |
October 2018. A wet sunny week full of plants and talking about plants. We plan the new borders for 2019 and start sourcing herbaceous and woody material | |||
| 21 Mar 2018 | #22 Tree circles, espaliers for uninspiring spaces and how to build a rugged rockery | 00:28:42 | |
In this episode we explore the art of shrubby bondage, get bold with big boulders, take a trip to Kew gardens and cut some turf A momentous week for gardening and gardeners alike | |||
| 04 Sep 2019 | #66 The trouble with dahlias, meadow mowing and stylish underplanting for the stylish gardener | 00:26:13 | |
In this episode of the Garden Log we scythe the last sweet grass of summer, spread fine mulch and sings a cricket’s song. As mentioned on the podcast, to see me at the landscape show register here: http://www.landscapeshow.co.uk/register | |||
| 02 Aug 2018 | #36 Scything meadows, cutting dahlias and battling Cthulhu weed | 00:23:22 | |
This hottest day of the year coincides with the wildflower orchard's annual hay cut. I harvest dahlias for garish, smile-inducing vases of midsummer joy and we discuss whether its possible to imbue certain flower beds with a profound aura of cosmic dread. All in a weeks work on The Garden Log!
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| 14 Jan 2019 | #49 Heretical hellebores, scarecrow grass and building a satellite compost heap | 00:28:12 | |
In this brave new podcast we discuss grass, gravel and the gardens of Queen Anne. Also horticultural drunks, what and when to cut back and a bumblebee. | |||
| 01 Apr 2022 | #98 [On Location] The good, the mad and the hyggeligt: front gardens of Hellerup | 00:34:19 | |
In this special episode of The Garden Log Ben walks out one mid-spring morning in search of beauty and blossom. The pavements brings him plants, thoughts, birdsong and some sort of helicopter, all of which are lovingly reported on. For more of this sort of thing try The Grove: Available to order now: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-grove/ben-dark/9781784727383 | |||
| 18 Mar 2022 | #97 Of oligarchs, snowberries and other shade lovers: A gardening podcast | 00:31:36 | |
The garden log comes out in favour of seed heads, weeds some beds, throws some droops, sees some shoots - you know, gardening stuff! For events tickets go here - https://linktr.ee/bendark | |||
| 11 Apr 2019 | #56 Potting lemons, splitting day lilies, paranoia, drunkenness and burning down the Hyde Park Pagoda | 00:29:19 | |
In this Episode of the Garden Log Ben talks tulips, talks with two lips, walks with two hips, speaks of new tips and cuts the grass. Also, optical illusions for lawnmowers, the family Ranunculacea and seasonal weeding.
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| 28 Jan 2022 | #94 Sowing Eupatorium, seeing Sorbus and reverting Picea + The Grove, the wind, the snow and the seagulls | 00:27:51 | |
Ben takes to the seed compost, hunts cactus through the snow and talks about his new book, which, by the way, is available to buy here! https://linktr.ee/bendark | |||
| 26 Oct 2021 | #91 [On Location] Kitchen Garden Confidential | 00:36:50 | |
Ben tours the fruit trees of Bernstorff Slotshave, discovers a nuttery and uses it to muse on pruning, ivy, bees, wasps, dogs, figs, cliffs and trees. https://ko-fi.com/bendark | |||
| 27 Sep 2018 | #43 How to prune lavender with a tractor, plant a disease resistant elm and effectively ruin your lawn | 00:27:45 | |
In this episode we cut back on the lavender, discuss favourite plants and tragically find out why its never a good idea to rush things in the garden. | |||
| 25 Jan 2018 | #15 Hangovers, horti-talk and hardy geraniums | 00:25:43 | |
We go shopping for specimen trees, drink lots of tea and cut back epimediums. There’s also info on dividing hardy perennials and advice on how to stop gardeners destroying gardens.
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| 18 Jul 2019 | #63 Poppies, roses, wood sorrels and willow herbs: A gardening podcast | 00:24:01 | |
Weeds take centre stage in high summer as Ben turns farmers wife and chops off their roots with a carving knife.
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| 15 Nov 2017 | Episode 7: Dystopian flower beds made easy! | 00:18:56 | |
This week’s special edition focuses on planting a spectacular, long flowering border to keep you radioactively warm all winter.
Plants used for this project:
Allium moly Erigeron karvinskianus x Heucherella ‘Kimono’ Hylotelephium spectabile 'Carl' Gaura lindheimeri ‘Sparkle White’ Kniphofia ‘Toffee Nosed’ Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Sweet Winter Sisyrinchium striatum | |||
| 18 Jan 2018 | #14 The Diet of Worms | 00:22:39 | |
In this episode of the gardening podcast Ben talks about worms, foxgloves and the art of the Japanese garden. A wriggly, wiggly horticultural treat. | |||
| 24 May 2019 | #57 A week in the garden | 00:24:25 | |
Ben works on woods, weeds and walks. Also on his tan. The Garden Log is an award winning podcast all about a head gardener and the plants he works with. | |||
| 16 Jun 2022 | How to keep plants alive (and other mysteries) | 00:34:00 | |
In this excellent episode Ben finds roses like cats, lawns like dunes and flowers like clothes pegs. Also featuring a few simple tricks to stop things dying.
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| 28 Apr 2020 | #78 Creative weeding, lily beetles and impossibly clashing shades of tulip | 00:31:11 | |
In this episode of the Garden Log Ben returns after three weeks in lockdown to find the grounds more beautiful than ever. Also: aphids, cleomes and the hart’s tongue fern. | |||
| 20 Mar 2019 | #55 How to take risks, unwrap ferns and apply for gardening’s most prestigious job | 00:24:06 | |
Welcome to Episode 55 of the garden log in which we shunt bulbs, buy trees and gossip about UK horticulture.
Feel free to email me about plants you have known: thegardenlogpodcast@gmail.com
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| 18 Jun 2019 | #59 Houttuynia (tastes like fish) bracken (gets stamped on) and Uvdale Price (is full of regrets): A gardening podcast! | 00:28:09 | |
A full smorgasbord of horticulture - served rain-soaked and half-composted. In this episode we discuss when and why to cut back long-flowering perennials, look at some ferns and make preparations for the summer we wish we had. Enjoy! | |||
| 20 Nov 2020 | #85 How to rehabilitate an olive, revive a flowerbed and restore a rockery | 00:28:14 | |
Hello! Ben here. It’s wet. The garden is half-flooded and really only good for eels and starfish. But never mind! We’re planting bright yellow achillea to cheer everybody up. All aboard for another voyage on H.M.S Horticulture. | |||
| 11 Mar 2020 | #76 How to make a very new tree look old and beautiful, plant a heather canyon and measure a life in rosebuds | 00:32:47 | |
Ben modifies a large pinus sylvestris, plants green mondo grass and develops a nostalgic new form of gardening. All this and more in horticultures most discursive podcast. | |||
| 10 May 2018 | #27 Globe flowers, half-eaten hydrangeas and planning a cut-flower garden | 00:27:56 | |
Tonight I’m gonna garden like its 1979. We take a nostalgic tour of that decade's eccentric gardens and root up some tree stumps with a big digger | |||
| 31 Jan 2020 | #74 Training figs, burying barns under clematis montana, and cutting back hybrid hellebores: A gardening podcast | 00:24:14 | |
In this January episode of The Garden Log Ben ties in fruit trees, makes a bet on a daffodil and rescues some asters from a heap of dumped clay. Also, musings on the season to come, general plant chat and very nice sunrise. All this and more on England’s finest horticultural podcast! | |||
| 14 Oct 2021 | #90 [On Location] Bernstorff Slotshave 1: A good walk foiled | 00:28:25 | |
In Ben's first ever outdoor recording for the Garden Log he is driven from a historic kitchen garden to wander in search of euonymus, yew trees and friendly dogs. https://ko-fi.com/bendark | |||
| 08 Nov 2017 | Episode 6: Social learning in squirrels, the Ipomoea report and dairy farming with Richard Burton | 00:29:31 | |
Another wander through the gardening week. In this episode it’s time to talk tulips. I tell the story of my Morning Glory and commiserate with a listener over his dismembered tiarella. | |||
| 23 Aug 2019 | #65 Planting a pagan yew grove, playing the delphinium blues and preaching the wallflower gospel: a gardening podcast | 00:25:13 | |
In this episode of the Garden Log Ben summons the Elder Gods, meets a canary fancying diamond magnate and trims the wisteria.
Solomon Joel’s garden party - https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-foxhill-estate-1926-online
Hampton Court: Our growing year - https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/whats-on/hampton-court-gardens/our-growing-year/#gs.xkd84m
Gherado Cibo’s plantain - https://www.moleiro.com/en/books-of-medicine/dioscorides-by-mattioli-and-cibo/miniatura/broadleaf-plantain-dioscorides
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| 19 Feb 2020 | #75 How to select hardy geraniums, fake the wild look and survive two storms in a week | 00:32:55 | |
In this blustery episode of the Garden Log Ben and the team carry out some subterranean demolition, find a tree corpse, and plant 458 herbaceous perennials | |||
| 09 Apr 2020 | #77 How to argue about tulips, judge front gardens and appreciate euphorbia | 00:32:28 | |
In this locked-down edition of the Garden Log Ben takes a horticultural stroll, makes a case for blowsy tulips and reconsiders the London amelanchier. Soothing noises for troubled times
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| 25 Apr 2018 | #25 Sun, slugs and soil | 00:27:02 | |
In this episode we consider the daffodil munching meadow slug, contemplate the effects of house-fires on wisteria vines and try out new stripes for the lawn It's a blazing bonanza of horticulture and anecdote! thegardenlogpodcast@gmail.com | |||
| 10 Dec 2018 | Gertrude Jekyll, Dianella and the Garden Media Guild | 00:24:28 | |
In this rain-drenched episode we discuss Arts and Crafts gardening, plant a happy-morning garden and plant a field of white camassia. | |||
| 21 Jan 2019 | #50 How to prune an apple tree, date a horticulturalist and see compost in all you survey | 00:29:57 | |
For the Garden Log's half century we take a trip up a tree, visit Kew Gardens and look at the hosta bed. We also learn how prune fruit trees and how to live for ever. Happy listening!
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