Gratitude, privilege, responsibility. With Ann-Marie Powell Gardens, weeds and words

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.
 
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Garden soundtrack
 
Back after a break for the last episode in the series
 
Dogs and gardening
 
Lockdown and #BlackLivesMatter – did these change how you felt about your garden?
 
Privilege in the gardening world
 
Telling the stories of plants
 
Reading 05:30
Extract from 'Science and Colonial Expansion. The role of the British Royal Botanical Gardens' by Lucile H. Brockway in American Ethnologist, Journal of the American Ethnological Society, Volume 6 Issue 3, 1979, read by Sui Searle. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/ae.1979.6.3.02a00030
 
The book of the same name, available here: https://amzn.to/2PbSC4z
 
Gardening should be political – more of this in series three.
 
Gratitude, privilege and responsibility  – what that's meant to me in lockdown
 
 
Interview with the Ann Marie Powell 11:20 
 
11:48 What's behind @myrealgarden?
 
15:22 Plants, People, Place
 
18:37 Living in a horticultural household, and how it effects domestic gardening
 
22:12 How Ann-Marie became a garden designer
 
23:16 Horticulture within the education system – being given the choice
 
25:18 Andrew talking absolute rubbish about "gardening with your ears"
 
27:10 Ann-Marie Powell Gardens – the vital importance of a great team
 
31:17 The effect of the Hampshire landscape on AMPG's design work
 
33:47 Is there anything the RHS needs to learn when it comes to reaching new people with shows like Chelsea?
 
38:56 Ann-Marie's gardens at RHS Wisley in Surrey
 
42:43 Pro-bono work for Greenfingers charity https://www.greenfingerscharity.org.uk/
 
46:03 Quickfire EITHER/OR questions!
 
Fatsia japonica https://www.shootgardening.co.uk/plant/fatsia-japonica
Schefflera rhododendrifolia https://www.shootgardening.co.uk/plant/schefflera-rhododendrifolia
Crûg Farm Nursery https://www.crug-farm.co.uk/
 
 
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Gratitude, privilege and responsibility vs Plants, People, Place. Pick your mantra!
 
 
 
Thank you to Ann-Marie for joining me on this episode. You can find Ann-Marie online here:
AMPG website: https://www.ann-mariepowell.com/
Ann Marie's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ann_mariepowell/
The @myrealgarden instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/myrealgarden/
 
And also to Sui Searle for reading from the Lucile H. Brockway paper. You can find Sui on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/thetemperategardener/ and here https://www.instagram.com/decolonisethegarden/
 
I’m ever grateful to all my listeners for your continued support and reviews, I really do appreciate them. You can support the podcast by buying its producer a virtual cup of coffee for three quid, at https://ko-fi.com/andrewtimothyOB. Proceeds will go towards equipment, software and the monthly podcast hosting fees. 
 
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https://www.gardensweedsandwords.com/garden-coaching
 
 
 
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