The Garden Log

Ben Dark

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

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105 episodes
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Dec 21, 2020 · 27 min
#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
Nov 20, 2020 · 28 min
#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're planting bright yellow achillea to cheer everybody up. All aboard for another voyage on H.M.S Horticulture.
Sep 28, 2020 · 24 min
#83 Hard edges, cold winds and twelve thousand little droplets of hope: A gardening podcast
In this season-straddling episode of the Garden Log Ben discusses the art of horticultural gossip, rides a new machine, names many beetles and get the business of bulb planting under way. ko-fi.com/bendark
Aug 10, 2020 · 27 min
#82 Scything for beginners, rose pruning for experts and lawn mowing for everyone
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 the damage of midsummer heat. https://ko-fi.com/bendark
Jul 5, 2020 · 26 min
#81 Yellow trees, purple trees and Isabella Trees + naked calendars, shredded perennials and a new vegetable garden.
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.
Jun 10, 2020 · 40 min
#80 How to choose bog plants for dry gardens, plant a wild urn and massively amplify astrantias
This week the gardeners spread outrageous herbaceous perennials to all corners of the garden and report from the meadow. Ligularia 'Zepter' Centranthus ruber 'Albus' Rodgersia aesculifolia Astrantia major 'Gill Richardson' Iris 'Dusky Challenger' Geranium 'Sirak' Cynara cardunculus Coreopsis grandiflora 'Sunray' The Albertus Oak Mysteries: Amazon US https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0871XW1HC Amazon UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B084TRFVNF Ko-fi.com/bendark
May 15, 2020 · 31 min
#79 The economy of beauty: tree ferns, aconites, thermopsis and frost
In this daring episode of Britain's favourite gardening podcast Ben comes up the wrong side of the weather, explains how to divide dahlias and encounters an exciting new plant. www.ko-fi.com/bendark
Apr 28, 2020 · 31 min
#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. Also: aphids, cleomes and the hart's tongue fern. https://ko-fi.com/bendark
Apr 9, 2020 · 32 min
#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 reconsiders the London amelanchier. Soothing noises for troubled times thegardenlogpodcast@gmail.com bendark.com
Mar 11, 2020 · 32 min
#76 How to make a very new tree look old and beautiful, plant a heather canyon and measure a life in rosebuds
Ben modifies a large pinus sylvestris, plants green mondo grass and develops a nostalgic new form of gardening. All this and more in horticultures most discursive podcast.
Feb 19, 2020 · 32 min
#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, and plant 458 herbaceous perennials
Jan 31, 2020 · 24 min
#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 from a heap of dumped clay. Also, musings on the season to come, general plant chat and very nice sunrise. All this and more on England's finest horticultural podcast!
Jan 14, 2020 · 30 min
#73 Twenty-three thuja, two-hundred-thousand worms and one almighty disaster - happy new year everybody!
In this episode of the Garden Log Ben celebrates very happy news, makes some awful horticultural mistakes, plants roses and talks of irrigation.
Dec 9, 2019 · 31 min
#72 How to lift dahlias, grow summer fruiting raspberries, naturalise scilla and be a horticultural vigilante
In this early December episode of the Garden Log Ben plants bulbs at three per second, worries about citrus trees, looks into the rooting capacity of autumn soil and encounters mob justice in Finsbury Park
Nov 19, 2019 · 24 min
#71 Gardeners' wages, frozen toes and martagon lilies: A horticultural podcast
In this November episode of the garden log Ben rescues a flopped wisteria, plants vast quantities of spring bulbs, starts the mulching and discusses the best technique for clearing leaves from saturated soil.
Nov 6, 2019 · 30 min
#70 Agapanthus and autumn flowering snowdrops
In this blazing autumnal episode of the Garden Log Ben takes a trip to Mottisfont Abbey and RHS Wisley. Also, hellebores, peonies, variegated yew, mud eating and much much more
Oct 23, 2019 · 26 min
#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
Oct 1, 2019 · 30 min
#68 Slug life, magnolia death and a ground elder invasion: A gardening podcast
This week the Garden Log gets into the weeds. Barrowloads of brambles, some nettles, wood avens, ground elder, dandelions and purple cherry plum. Also! Dog's tooth violets, camassias, water pipes and flooded lanes.
Sep 24, 2019 · 25 min
#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 slander Edwardian sailors. A podcast for people who like gardens and the people who garden them.
Sep 4, 2019 · 26 min
#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. As mentioned on the podcast, to see me at the landscape show register here: http://www.landscapeshow.co.uk/register