The Garden Log

Ben Dark

The Garden Log is an award winning /gardening/history/botany podcast from Ben Dark

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20 episodes
Updated Friday

Episodes20

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Friday · 23 min
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
July 24 · 37 min
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/
July 17 · 28 min
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.
Jun 16, 2022 · 34 min
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.
May 20, 2022 · 39 min
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 romance. https://ko-fi.com/bendark linktr.ee/bendark
May 12, 2022 · 32 min
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 whose modest orchard-watergarden-woodland survives in the suburbs north of Copenhagen. https://ko-fi.com/bendark
May 5, 2022 · 30 min
#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 featuring a trip to the fairground, tabloid libel and a woman named X
Apr 26, 2022 · 36 min
#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 The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 1/2 Front Gardens - recently described by The Daily Telegraph as 'the best gardening book of 2022' and available to order from everywhere here: linktr.ee/bendark https://ko-fi.com/bendark
Apr 1, 2022 · 34 min
#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 plants, thoughts, birdsong and some sort of helicopter, all of which are lovingly reported on. For more of this sort of thing try The Grove: Available to order now: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-grove/ben-dark/9781784727383
Mar 18, 2022 · 31 min
#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 events tickets go here - https://linktr.ee/bendark
Feb 10, 2022 · 32 min
#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/bendark http://linktr.ee/bendark
Jan 28, 2022 · 27 min
#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! https://linktr.ee/bendark
Jan 19, 2022 · 26 min
#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
Nov 8, 2021 · 38 min
#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 to talk about vegetables, olives and the Villa Cimbrone https://ko-fi.com/bendark
Oct 26, 2021 · 36 min
#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 and trees. https://ko-fi.com/bendark
Oct 14, 2021 · 28 min
#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 trees and friendly dogs. https://ko-fi.com/bendark
Aug 2, 2021 · 29 min
#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 Scandinavian approach to Japanese Knotweed.
Jun 30, 2021 · 32 min
#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.com/bendark
Mar 12, 2021 · 32 min
#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
Jan 11, 2021 · 33 min
#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 of psuedopanax www.ko-fi.com/bendark

The Garden Log

In praise of shadow, featuring Baroque hornbeams and Emily Brontë

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

Green Ghosts and Fading Clones

How to keep plants alive (and other mysteries)

Pine riots, wolf-vines and the joy of other people's gardens: A gardening podcast

Underrated shrubs, sweet perfumes and the art of the Garden Room: A petal strewn podcast

#100 Perfect mistakes, rhubarb, rollercoasters, tulips and timeslips: A gardening podcast

#99 Wildflowers, Tyrants and Sweet Magnolia: A Gardening Podcast

#98 [On Location] The good, the mad and the hyggeligt: front gardens of Hellerup

#97 Of oligarchs, snowberries and other shade lovers: A gardening podcast

#95 Rose pruning with King Midas: A gardening podcast

#94 Sowing Eupatorium, seeing Sorbus and reverting Picea + The Grove, the wind, the snow and the seagulls

#93 The surprising speed of Arum italicum: featuring Proust's Asparagus, Mahonia x media and the Aucuba fertilisation frenzy of 1865

#92 [On Location] Life in the Ruins: Mutant brambles and runaway figs in the deserted village of Campo di Brenzone

#91 [On Location] Kitchen Garden Confidential

#90 [On Location] Bernstorff Slotshave 1: A good walk foiled

#89 Copenhagen: city of roses (A gardening podcast)

#88 Goodbye to all that

#87 Acer griseum, Crocus chrysanthus, frost reports and water fountains: a gardening podcast

#86 New discoveries, old adversaries and very strong coffee: A gardening podcast