Talking Gardens

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Leisure #231Home & Garden #36

If you could create your dream garden from pieces of all of your favourite places, and if you could grow any plants in the world, what would you choose? Who would you have as your imaginary head gardener, or garden designer?In Talking Gardens, the podcast from the team behind Gardens Illustrated, host Stephanie Mahon asks the great and the good of the gardening world to construct their ultimate fantasy growing space.Tune in to hear what Great Dixter’s head gardener Fergus Garrett, gardener and broadcaster Monty Don, and garden writer Alice Vincent choose for their dream gardens.Discover why head gardener Troy Scott-Smith is no longer watering the borders at Sissinghurst; why herb expert Jekka McVicar loves a moon gate; and how gardening saved the life of Charlie Harpur, head gardener at Knepp Castle Walled Garden.We also learn what ethnobotanist James Wong’s imaginary Eden would look like, and what garden designer Sarah Price would never allow in her garden.Follow now so you never miss an episode.

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    Apr 26, 2024 – 03:23
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  • Arthur Parkinson
    Nov 14, 2023 – 34:29
  • Piet Oudolf
    Nov 7, 2023 – 49:05
  • Errol Reuben Fernandes
    Oct 31, 2023 – 36:51
  • Marian Boswall
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  • Harry Holding
    May 19, 2023 – 36:33
  • Chris Beardshaw
    May 18, 2023 – 48:00
  • Tom Massey
    May 17, 2023 – 39:26
  • Charlotte Harris
    May 16, 2023 – 34:58
  • Cleve West
    May 15, 2023 – 38:23
  • Sarah Price
    May 8, 2023 – 34:28
  • Charlie Harpur
    May 1, 2023 – 27:47
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    Apr 24, 2023 – 42:07
  • Troy Scott Smith
    Apr 17, 2023 – 35:05
  • James Wong
    Apr 10, 2023 – 42:37
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    Apr 3, 2023 – 46:08
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Recent Reviews
  • malp31987
    Wonderful, informative podcast
    I may not be the target audience (as a fairly young American listener), but I adore this podcast. The host asks great questions of guests and facilitates a spirit of learning. Many of the plants discussed are ones I can’t grow in my area of the southeastern US, but I enjoy the insights all the same. Thank you!
  • lls404
    Inspirational, Therapeutic
    The ideas and stories are so interesting. They are horticultural therapy to me at the end of the day.
  • red queen on square one
    host talks
    someone said this already. i agree.
  • Rabbit Tail and Foot
    Love it!
    Finally an inspiring gardening podcast! What a pleasure to hear from so many gardening masters. The host is lovely, and so clearly knowledgeable. She brings her own depth of expertise and keeps the speakers on task. A nice companion to wintry runs, when your mind runs to spring and its infinite possibilities on its own.
  • LPOregon
    Suggestion: the host should speak less
    Excellent podcast but host sometimes reacts to everything and speaks too much.
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