Hellos and Goodbyes
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...
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The Garden Log
The Garden Log - dirt from an English garden. A weekly discussion of plants, places and people.
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20 of 100 episodesHow 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 s...
Pine riots, wolf-vines and the joy of other people's gardens: A gardening podcast
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...
Underrated shrubs, sweet perfumes and the art of the Garden Room: A petal strewn podcast
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...
#100 Perfect mistakes, rhubarb, rollercoasters, tulips and timeslips: A gardening podcast
Its spring and Ben is gardening hard. In a special dispatch from the flowerbeds he reports on sparrows, cosmos and creeping jenny. Also feat...
#99 Wildflowers, Tyrants and Sweet Magnolia: A Gardening Podcast
Ben discusses Ornithogolum, irises, poppies and golden fleece. Also featuring a trip to the Boboli gardens in Florence and a reading from Th...
#98 [On Location] The good, the mad and the hyggeligt: front gardens of Hellerup
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...
#97 Of oligarchs, snowberries and other shade lovers: A gardening podcast
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...
#95 Rose pruning with King Midas: A gardening podcast
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...
#94 Sowing Eupatorium, seeing Sorbus and reverting Picea + The Grove, the wind, the snow and the seagulls
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...
#93 The surprising speed of Arum italicum: featuring Proust's Asparagus, Mahonia x media and the Aucuba fertilisation frenzy of 1865
Celebrate the return of the Garden Log with some of your favourite shrubs! Plus mulch shovelling, cotinus and some dodgey but lovable carex
#92 [On Location] Life in the Ruins: Mutant brambles and runaway figs in the deserted village of Campo di Brenzone
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...
#91 [On Location] Kitchen Garden Confidential
Ben tours the fruit trees of Bernstorff Slotshave, discovers a nuttery and uses it to muse on pruning, ivy, bees, wasps, dogs, figs, cliffs...
#90 [On Location] Bernstorff Slotshave 1: A good walk foiled
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...
#89 Copenhagen: city of roses (A gardening podcast)
In this northerly episode of The Garden Log Ben discusses lime trees, hollyhocks, hedge heights and salsify and is refreshed by the Scandina...
#88 Goodbye to all that
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...
#87 Acer griseum, Crocus chrysanthus, frost reports and water fountains: a gardening podcast
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
#86 New discoveries, old adversaries and very strong coffee: A gardening podcast
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...
#85 Russian sage, British mud, almond puddings: A gardening podcast
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
#85 How to rehabilitate an olive, revive a flowerbed and restore a rockery
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...