30 min
Roger Phillips Interview (Wild Food Foraging, Mushrooms, Organic Gardening and writing 45 books in 45 years) Wellspring with Emma Mills London
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Roger Phillips, 87, (@RogerPhillips_RedGlasses ) has been at work replanting Eccleston Square garden in London for nearly 40 years, the result is best described as a plantsman’s garden with interesting plants from all over the world, many of which he has collected himself
Roger is acknowledged as the most prolific plant illustrator of all time. He has published more than 30,000 plant identification photographs of roses, trees, shrubs, mushrooms, perennials, annuals and wild flowers, in more than 40 major books, using his advanced photographic techniques, in the manner of botanical drawings. Culminating in a two volume ground-breaking work on the botany of all garden plants, ‘The Botanical Garden’ volume one deals with Trees and Shrubs.
Roger has published major works on mushrooms and fungi. His two main mushroom works (Mushrooms of northern Europe and Mushrooms of North America) have now sold over two million copies. He has just published a new revised edition of his book on foraging “Wild Food a complete Guide for Foragers”, which naturally includes a large section on finding and cooking mushrooms. His Mushroom work is also published as an interactive App “Rogers Mushrooms”.
His TV work includes a six part history of the rose’; ‘Quest for the Rose’ and a series on his own garden at Eccleston Square London written and filmed in conjunction with the garden of an American cookery writer Leslie Land and her work in Maine; ‘The 3,000 Mile Garden’.
In this interview Roger and I explore:
His passion for art, photography, botany and wild foods
His views on retirement and growing older
The evolution of his book writing career
Wild food foraging and mushrooming
Growing an edible garden, starting with potatoes and nasturtiums
How he came to love mushrooms
Pre-order Rogers new book 'The Worldwide Forager' here - https://amzn.to/3aop5y2
Follow Roger on Instagram HERE
Follow Emma on Instagram HERE
Listen to more from the Wellspring Podcast HERE
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/emmamillslondon/message
Roger Phillips, 87, (@RogerPhillips_RedGlasses ) has been at work replanting Eccleston Square garden in London for nearly 40 years, the result is best described as a plantsman’s garden with interesting plants from all over the world, many of which he has collected himself
Roger is acknowledged as the most prolific plant illustrator of all time. He has published more than 30,000 plant identification photographs of roses, trees, shrubs, mushrooms, perennials, annuals and wild flowers, in more than 40 major books, using his advanced photographic techniques, in the manner of botanical drawings. Culminating in a two volume ground-breaking work on the botany of all garden plants, ‘The Botanical Garden’ volume one deals with Trees and Shrubs.
Roger has published major works on mushrooms and fungi. His two main mushroom works (Mushrooms of northern Europe and Mushrooms of North America) have now sold over two million copies. He has just published a new revised edition of his book on foraging “Wild Food a complete Guide for Foragers”, which naturally includes a large section on finding and cooking mushrooms. His Mushroom work is also published as an interactive App “Rogers Mushrooms”.
His TV work includes a six part history of the rose’; ‘Quest for the Rose’ and a series on his own garden at Eccleston Square London written and filmed in conjunction with the garden of an American cookery writer Leslie Land and her work in Maine; ‘The 3,000 Mile Garden’.
In this interview Roger and I explore:
His passion for art, photography, botany and wild foods
His views on retirement and growing older
The evolution of his book writing career
Wild food foraging and mushrooming
Growing an edible garden, starting with potatoes and nasturtiums
How he came to love mushrooms
Pre-order Rogers new book 'The Worldwide Forager' here - https://amzn.to/3aop5y2
Follow Roger on Instagram HERE
Follow Emma on Instagram HERE
Listen to more from the Wellspring Podcast HERE
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/emmamillslondon/message
30 min