The Garden Log

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Welcome to a strange green world. The Garden Log is the audio journal of award-wining British author, gardener and plant historian Ben Dark. A window into the remarkable life of plants and the beautiful places they grow.

  1. 2日前

    Heavenly Dishevelment

    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 me at https://www.thegardencollective.uk/ben-dark/

  2. 8月21日

    Flight of the aspidistra

    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 important subject,' And here's the link to the How to Academy event: https://tickets.howtoacademy.com/the-epic-family-history-of-plants-tickets/worldwide-live-stream/2026-10-27-18-00 Love to all you gardeners and gardening people

  3. 8月14日

    Grey sedge, smuggled cuttings, a watering disaster and the new garden at Grosvenor Square

    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 of that then of course you must pre order my book https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/463428/green-kingdom-by-dark-ben/9781847928337

  4. 8月7日

    Old roses, strange apples: finding beauty in the bleached bones of an English summer

    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 enjoyed any of this history, gardening and plants podcast then consider preordering my book here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/463428/green-kingdom-by-dark-ben/9781847928337

  5. 7月30日

    In praise of shadow, featuring Baroque hornbeams and Emily Brontë

    We find ourselves at the mercy of forces beyond our control and hide from the wind and sun under a leafy bowers of the Baroque garden at Gammel Holtegård. A gardening podcast. Here is the mega-discount for Americans https://www.amazon.com/Green-Kingdom-Family-History-Plants-ebook/dp/B0H5D7H8PZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=RP2TBN1HHA7K&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Bo_HP2EzIae79kSPW1fmkfmTi9cnIVFFedPWaFTKxy0IhNjqQnZmyw-9-Z9S3g2jUQyqpYp_2RZl8cdrCj0pn2uM4vQuzbP_WVV8Qfhn4oqoQqDoC8jNUq0lTckYckglCI7jTvkCL2wOhWxoyDf544YrlxKILoJeqIL-hlNBtaY.JA2A3bZ2AXgmhMakyG53ufPM7AVr6d6RpTFwXDD6vsM&dib_tag=se&keywords=green+kingdom+a+family+history+of+plants&qid=1785172825&s=books&sprefix=green+kingdom+a+family+history+of+plan%2Cstripbooks%2C349&sr=1-1 Lots of love

  6. 7月24日

    Green Fingers are the Extensions of a Verdant Heart: Russell Page and Redcurrants

    Just after the summer's hinge, Ben eats his neigbours' soft fruit, considers the lily and reads that all-time classic of garden writing The Education of a Gardener. Here's the link to the Garden Collective: https://www.thegardencollective.uk/ben-dark/ Green Kingdom here: https://www.thegardencollective.uk/ben-dark/

  7. 7月17日

    Green Ghosts and Fading Clones

    Welcome to season 2 of the Garden Log. Ben says goodbye to the Danish garden and prepares to return to London. Featuring, seeds, clones and the horticultural spirits that linger when we leave.

  8. 16/06/2022

    How to keep plants alive (and other mysteries)

    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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Welcome to a strange green world. The Garden Log is the audio journal of award-wining British author, gardener and plant historian Ben Dark. A window into the remarkable life of plants and the beautiful places they grow.

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  • 創作者
    Ben Dark
  • 活躍年份
    2017年 - 2026年
  • 單集
    109
  • 分級
    兒童適宜
  • 版權
    © Copyright Ben Dark
  • 節目網站
    The Garden Log