ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Welcome to a strange green world. This is the audio journal of award-wining British author, gardener and plant historian Ben Dark. A witty and intelligent window into the remarkable life of plants and the beautiful places they grow.
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weekly
Average audio length:
28 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
115 episodes
since Oct. 1, 2017
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~68.52% of listeners are from United Kingdom.
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US
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CA
3.52%
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CO
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NZ
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ES
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UA
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IN
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AU
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IE
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DK
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ZA
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JP
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FR
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BR
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Others
0.08%
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
From Venice to Plumstead, remarkable stories lurk behind ivy-covered walls.
This episode of the Garden Log leaps the wall of an abandoned garden on the island of Giudecca to tell of gout, roses, princesses, pills, Gertrude Jekyll's sister and tioletless Austrian.
It also visits South London where b…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Can the English Cottage Garden survive in the new world of scorching summers and blasted borders?
Is there still a place for higgledy beauty and perennial favourites in our strange new world? Find out in this 500 year history of the nation's most beloved garden style.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/book…
Celebrating the beauty and strangeness of plants.
This week we lope into the half-shade with graceful Magnolia kobus, elegant Abutilon 'Patrick Synge' and the monstrous Hydrangea aspera 'Bellevue', before bursting into the light with golden Acacia pravissima (the sawtooth wattle), duskyVitis vinife…
An existential defence of high maintenance gardening. Why should we strive for ease when working outside feels so good? With some carex, some meristems and some plant morphology for good measure.
And thank you for preordering Green Kingdom! https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/463428/green-kingdom-by-…
In this post-rain episode of cult gardening podcast The Garden Log we say goodbye to the universal uncle Monty Don who is to retire from Gardeners' World.
But our Gardeners' World keeps turning, so also enjoy introductions to the gorgeous autumn snowflake (Acis autumnalis) and the Corsican knotweed…
In this late summer sunset of an episode Ben visits Down House, home of Charles Darwin, considers the hybrid geranium and praises the Michaelmas daisy.
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Are the best gardens designed or created? Why are there beetles crawling on my World of Interiors magazine? What cut flowers would go with my collection of pornographic postcards? These and other important questions answered in the guide to effortless good taste.
For more of this sort of thing join…
Two very different 3am trips to the garden this week as heat gives way to rain. Also, using soft cuttings and plastic cups to make plants from plants, some Musa basjoo, some Clerodendrum trichotomum, some Solanum laciniatum and some flower crab spiders, plus of course, aspidistra: ‘They’re a dashed…
How will our gardens look in the future? Ben visits the new garden in Grosvenor Square with its Nigel Dunnett planting to find out.
Also featuring: tragedy at bathtime; some borrowed seedlings; a 4000 year old stumpery and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the Duke of York Theatre.
And if you enjoyed any o…
Is Thomas Knight the greatest villain in the history of fruit growing? And how does a Frenchman's marriage influence the rose gardens of England? These and other very important questions answered in an episode of The Garden Log recorded in the bleached white of a Herefordshire summer.
If you enjoye…
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