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The Garden Log - dirt from an English garden. A weekly discussion of plants, places and people.
A fond farewell from Ben and directions to the new podcast Dear Gardener, where the Garden Log lives on in spirit. I'm going to keep the Gar...
In this excellent episode Ben finds roses like cats, lawns like dunes and flowers like clothes pegs. Also featuring a few simple tricks to s...
Its a sultry spring day on the Garden Log. We muse on the kindness of strangers, advise on planting for a rubble-strewn drive and yearn for...
In this recreation of a lost walk Ben visits the garden of G. N Brandt (deceased) who brought the arts and crafts movement to Denmark and wh...
Its spring and Ben is gardening hard. In a special dispatch from the flowerbeds he reports on sparrows, cosmos and creeping jenny. Also feat...
Ben discusses Ornithogolum, irises, poppies and golden fleece. Also featuring a trip to the Boboli gardens in Florence and a reading from Th...
In this special episode of The Garden Log Ben walks out one mid-spring morning in search of beauty and blossom. The pavements brings him pla...
The garden log comes out in favour of seed heads, weeds some beds, throws some droops, sees some shoots - you know, gardening stuff! For eve...
What's more tangled: a neglected climber or or human morality? The Garden Log sticks its head into thorns and finds out. https://ko-fi.com/b...
Ben takes to the seed compost, hunts cactus through the snow and talks about his new book, which, by the way, is available to buy here! http...
Celebrate the return of the Garden Log with some of your favourite shrubs! Plus mulch shovelling, cotinus and some dodgey but lovable carex
In this starling-squalled episode of the Garden Log Ben is turned away from the botanic garden and makes his way to the mountains of Italy t...
Ben tours the fruit trees of Bernstorff Slotshave, discovers a nuttery and uses it to muse on pruning, ivy, bees, wasps, dogs, figs, cliffs...
In Ben's first ever outdoor recording for the Garden Log he is driven from a historic kitchen garden to wander in search of euonymus, yew tr...
In this northerly episode of The Garden Log Ben discusses lime trees, hollyhocks, hedge heights and salsify and is refreshed by the Scandina...
In the last episode of the Garden Log's three-and-half-year 'season 1' Ben reflects on the garden and looks forward a new chapter… www.ko-fi...
Spring breezes blow the daffodils as Ben reports on the damage that winter hath wrought and the beauty of new growth www.ko-fi.com/bendark
In this midwinter episode of the Garden Log Ben plays dice with the Gods of Winter, prunes ground cover roses and discusses the newty beauty...
Ben discusses snowdrop planting, creates a forget-me-not dream screen and warns of the dangers of the plum bun. www.ko-fi.com/bendark
www.ko-fi.com/bendark Hello! Ben here. It's wet. The garden is half-flooded and really only good for eels and starfish. But never mind! We'r...
In this season-straddling episode of the Garden Log Ben discusses the art of horticultural gossip, rides a new machine, names many beetles a...
n this hot and humid episode of Britain's Best Gardening Podcast Ben deals with a rambling rose, learns a new technique and tries to hide th...
In this wind buffeted episode of the Garden Log Ben takes a risk in the compost heap, plants some very special trees and batters the hedges.
This week the gardeners spread outrageous herbaceous perennials to all corners of the garden and report from the meadow. Ligularia 'Zepter'...
In this daring episode of Britain's favourite gardening podcast Ben comes up the wrong side of the weather, explains how to divide dahlias a...
In this episode of the Garden Log Ben returns after three weeks in lockdown to find the grounds more beautiful than ever. Also: aphids, cleo...
In this locked-down edition of the Garden Log Ben takes a horticultural stroll, makes a case for blowsy tulips and reconsiders the London am...
Ben modifies a large pinus sylvestris, plants green mondo grass and develops a nostalgic new form of gardening. All this and more in horticu...
In this blustery episode of the Garden Log Ben and the team carry out some subterranean demolition, find a tree corpse, and plant 458 herbac...
In this January episode of The Garden Log Ben ties in fruit trees, makes a bet on a daffodil and rescues some asters from a heap of dumped c...
In this episode of the Garden Log Ben celebrates very happy news, makes some awful horticultural mistakes, plants roses and talks of irrigat...
In this early December episode of the Garden Log Ben plants bulbs at three per second, worries about citrus trees, looks into the rooting ca...
In this November episode of the garden log Ben rescues a flopped wisteria, plants vast quantities of spring bulbs, starts the mulching and d...
In this blazing autumnal episode of the Garden Log Ben takes a trip to Mottisfont Abbey and RHS Wisley. Also, hellebores, peonies, variegate...
Head Gardener Ben Dark considers the dock, rejects time travel, splits bananas and plants cyclamen
This week the Garden Log gets into the weeds. Barrowloads of brambles, some nettles, wood avens, ground elder, dandelions and purple cherry...
In this sun-kissed episode of the garden log we mix bedding plants with grasses, plant up an ancient stone trough and slander Edwardian sail...
In this episode of the Garden Log we scythe the last sweet grass of summer, spread fine mulch and sings a cricket's song. As mentioned on th...
In this episode of the Garden Log Ben summons the Elder Gods, meets a canary fancying diamond magnate and trims the wisteria. Solomon Joel's...
In liquidating heat Ben plants, digs, sweats and chops when he should be drinking in the shade - all in the name of Beauty! Also, how to loo...
Weeds take centre stage in high summer as Ben turns farmers wife and chops off their roots with a carving knife. Thegardenlogpodcast@gmail.c...
In this week's heat-drenched episode of the Garden Log Ben makes a terrible mistake, battles powdery mildew and coats himself in a layer of...
In this episode of the Garden Log Ben cuts back the mint in preparation for mojito season, erects a rhomboid arch and talks extensively abou...
In this weeks episode Ben ruins a York stone path, heaves some iron and reflects on horticultural lessons learned.
A full smorgasbord of horticulture - served rain-soaked and half-composted. In this episode we discuss when and why to cut back long-floweri...
This week Ben completes the woodland garden, rediscovers a gardening archive and sends the herbaceous borders off in a blaze of glory
Ben works on woods, weeds and walks. Also on his tan. The Garden Log is an award winning podcast all about a head gardener and the plants he...
In this Episode of the Garden Log Ben talks tulips, talks with two lips, walks with two hips, speaks of new tips and cuts the grass. Also, o...
Welcome to Episode 55 of the garden log in which we shunt bulbs, buy trees and gossip about UK horticulture. Feel free to email me about pla...
Sap rises in this long anticipated episode of the Garden Log. We take a trip to see the gurus of grass, move a statue without the help of he...