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The Garden Log

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 t... Read more

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#69 Hot tea and rainclouds: a week in an English garden

#69 Hot tea and rainclouds: a week in an English garden

Head Gardener Ben Dark considers the dock, rejects time travel, splits bananas and plants cyclamen

23 Oct 2019

26mins

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#21 How to pot dahlias, protect your orchard roses and generally be a much better gardener

#21 How to pot dahlias, protect your orchard roses and generally be a much better gardener

In this episode we learn the arcane arts of the dahlia fancier, build a wall around the Malvern Hills and sow seeds of c... Read more

14 Mar 2018

27mins

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#33 Hot rocks, head gardeners and hydrangea vines

#33 Hot rocks, head gardeners and hydrangea vines

In this hot episode of Britain's favourite horticultural podcast we labour in desperate pursuit of beauty. Also, tips on... Read more

13 Jul 2018

31mins

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#77 How to argue about tulips, judge front gardens and appreciate euphorbia

#77 How to argue about tulips, judge front gardens and appreciate euphorbia

In this locked-down edition of the Garden Log Ben takes a horticultural stroll, makes a case for blowsy tulips and recon... Read more

9 Apr 2020

32mins

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#20 The Beast from the East

#20 The Beast from the East

In which I talk about sweet peas, fall off my bicycle and get snowed on.

7 Mar 2018

24mins

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#55 How to take risks, unwrap ferns and apply for gardening’s most prestigious job

#55 How to take risks, unwrap ferns and apply for gardening’s most prestigious job

Welcome to Episode 55 of the garden log in which we shunt bulbs, buy trees and gossip about UK horticulture. Feel free... Read more

20 Mar 2019

24mins

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#67 Three-thousand true blue pansies, playing with epimedium and finding the right path for candelabra primulas: A gardening podcast

#67 Three-thousand true blue pansies, playing with epimedium and finding the right path for candelabra primulas: A gardening podcast

In this sun-kissed episode of the garden log we mix bedding plants with grasses, plant up an ancient stone trough and sl... Read more

24 Sep 2019

25mins

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#27 Globe flowers, half-eaten hydrangeas and planning a cut-flower garden

#27 Globe flowers, half-eaten hydrangeas and planning a cut-flower garden

Tonight I’m gonna garden like its 1979. We take a nostalgic tour of that decade's eccentric gardens and root up some tre... Read more

10 May 2018

27mins

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#56 Potting lemons, splitting day lilies, paranoia, drunkenness and burning down the Hyde Park Pagoda

#56 Potting lemons, splitting day lilies, paranoia, drunkenness and burning down the Hyde Park Pagoda

In this Episode of the Garden Log Ben talks tulips, talks with two lips, walks with two hips, speaks of new tips and cut... Read more

11 Apr 2019

29mins

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#74 Training figs, burying barns under clematis montana, and cutting back hybrid hellebores: A gardening podcast

#74 Training figs, burying barns under clematis montana, and cutting back hybrid hellebores: A gardening podcast

In this January episode of The Garden Log Ben ties in fruit trees, makes a bet on a daffodil and rescues some asters fro... Read more

31 Jan 2020

24mins

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#78 Creative weeding, lily beetles and impossibly clashing shades of tulip

#78 Creative weeding, lily beetles and impossibly clashing shades of tulip

In this episode of the Garden Log Ben returns after three weeks in lockdown to find the grounds more beautiful than ever... Read more

28 Apr 2020

31mins

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#66 The trouble with dahlias, meadow mowing and stylish underplanting for the stylish gardener

#66 The trouble with dahlias, meadow mowing and stylish underplanting for the stylish gardener

In this episode of the Garden Log we scythe the last sweet grass of summer, spread fine mulch and sings a cricket’s song... Read more

4 Sep 2019

26mins

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#46 Tasteful jackets for tender plants - distasteful cocktails for dissolute gardeners

#46 Tasteful jackets for tender plants - distasteful cocktails for dissolute gardeners

In blazing autumn Ben plants an eccentric new foliage garden and worries if he has made a huge mistake. Also, massed ran... Read more

9 Nov 2018

27mins

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#61 Spent delphiniums, silver ragwort and prehistoric planting: A gardening podcast

#61 Spent delphiniums, silver ragwort and prehistoric planting: A gardening podcast

In this episode of the Garden Log Ben cuts back the mint in preparation for mojito season, erects a rhomboid arch and ta... Read more

2 Jul 2019

23mins

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#19 Designing with bulbous bedding, pricking out and dividing deciduous ferns

#19 Designing with bulbous bedding, pricking out and dividing deciduous ferns

In this episode we talk out pricking out, split a male fern, prepare for artic blasts and admire a mushroom cloud of haz... Read more

28 Feb 2018

27mins

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#36 Scything meadows, cutting dahlias and battling Cthulhu weed

#36 Scything meadows, cutting dahlias and battling Cthulhu weed

This hottest day of the year coincides with the wildflower orchard's annual hay cut. I harvest dahlias for garish, smile... Read more

2 Aug 2018

23mins

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Decorative grass, Edwardian fuss and sun-bright pots of summer zinnia

Decorative grass, Edwardian fuss and sun-bright pots of summer zinnia

In this episode we go garish for a garden fiesta, learn how to use ornamental grass to soften harsh borders and go scrum... Read more

28 Jul 2018

27mins

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#75 How to select hardy geraniums, fake the wild look and survive two storms in a week

#75 How to select hardy geraniums, fake the wild look and survive two storms in a week

In this blustery episode of the Garden Log Ben and the team carry out some subterranean demolition, find a tree corpse, ... Read more

19 Feb 2020

32mins

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#63 Poppies, roses, wood sorrels and willow herbs: A gardening podcast

#63 Poppies, roses, wood sorrels and willow herbs: A gardening podcast

Weeds take centre stage in high summer as Ben turns farmers wife and chops off their roots with a carving knife. Thega... Read more

18 Jul 2019

24mins

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