The Garden Log
A podcast by Ben Dark
103 Episodes
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#83 Hard edges, cold winds and twelve thousand little droplets of hope: A gardening podcast
Published: 9/28/2020 -
#82 Scything for beginners, rose pruning for experts and lawn mowing for everyone
Published: 8/10/2020 -
#81 Yellow trees, purple trees and Isabella Trees + naked calendars, shredded perennials and a new vegetable garden.
Published: 7/5/2020 -
#80 How to choose bog plants for dry gardens, plant a wild urn and massively amplify astrantias
Published: 6/10/2020 -
#79 The economy of beauty: tree ferns, aconites, thermopsis and frost
Published: 5/15/2020 -
#78 Creative weeding, lily beetles and impossibly clashing shades of tulip
Published: 4/28/2020 -
#77 How to argue about tulips, judge front gardens and appreciate euphorbia
Published: 4/9/2020 -
#76 How to make a very new tree look old and beautiful, plant a heather canyon and measure a life in rosebuds
Published: 3/11/2020 -
#75 How to select hardy geraniums, fake the wild look and survive two storms in a week
Published: 2/19/2020 -
#74 Training figs, burying barns under clematis montana, and cutting back hybrid hellebores: A gardening podcast
Published: 1/31/2020 -
#73 Twenty-three thuja, two-hundred-thousand worms and one almighty disaster - happy new year everybody!
Published: 1/14/2020 -
#72 How to lift dahlias, grow summer fruiting raspberries, naturalise scilla and be a horticultural vigilante
Published: 12/9/2019 -
#71 Gardeners’ wages, frozen toes and martagon lilies: A horticultural podcast
Published: 11/19/2019 -
#70 Agapanthus and autumn flowering snowdrops
Published: 11/6/2019 -
#69 Hot tea and rainclouds: a week in an English garden
Published: 10/23/2019 -
#68 Slug life, magnolia death and a ground elder invasion: A gardening podcast
Published: 10/1/2019 -
#67 Three-thousand true blue pansies, playing with epimedium and finding the right path for candelabra primulas: A gardening podcast
Published: 9/24/2019 -
#66 The trouble with dahlias, meadow mowing and stylish underplanting for the stylish gardener
Published: 9/4/2019 -
#65 Planting a pagan yew grove, playing the delphinium blues and preaching the wallflower gospel: a gardening podcast
Published: 8/23/2019 -
#64 High summer meadows, the hottest day on record and falling in love with a saxifraga: A gardening podcast.
Published: 7/30/2019
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.