Gardens, weeds and words

S02 Episode 1: Nature all around. With Caro Langton     A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.        Garden soundtrack   Autumn is here   Nature all around us     Reading 03:40   To Autumn  by John Keats     Read by Rose White, Richard Chivers and Rachel Coldbreath.     05:55 Natu...

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.        Garden soundtrack   Peak productivity in the garden.    Does nature need our help?   The joy of growing things, but where to start?     Micro book review   How to Grow Stuff  by Alice Vincent, published by Ebury Press, 2017 https://amzn...

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Garden soundtrack   Preparing for the visit of gardening friends, with the help of    Dear Friend and Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening by Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto, published by Frances Lincoln 1998 https://amzn.to/30WsVJ2...

S01 Episode 13: Joined-up gardens. With Jo Thompson     A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Garden soundtrack   The fox who ate my socks.   Joined-up gardens     Micro book review   The Bumblebee Flies Anyway by Kate Bradbury, published by Bloomsbury 2018  https://amzn.to/2...

S01 Episode 12: Midsummer rain. A weedling     A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Garden soundtrack   What is a "weedling"?   Rain in June   Petrichor https://gardensweedsandwords.com/gwwblog/gardeninspo365-day124-petrichor       Flooding     Oberon's speech,  A Midsummer...

S01 Episode 11: Gardens and food. With Victoria Wade     A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Garden soundtrack   Bees on the fishbone cotoneaster   Gardens and food     Micro book review   Tender, Vol 1. A cook and his vegetable patch  by Nigel Slater, published by Fourth E...

S01 Episode 10: Somone else's garden. With Marian Boswall     A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.        Garden soundtrack   The cuckoo.   Someone else's garden   Micro book review   Sweet Peas for Summer  by Laetitia Maklouf, published by Bloomsbury 2012 https://amzn.to/2JdtFom...

S01 Episode 09: Who is gardening for? With Sara Venn     A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.        Garden soundtrack   April in the garden   Bees on the goat willow.     Micro book review   Letters to a Beekeeper by Alys Fowler and Steve Benbow, published by Unbound 2017 https:...

S01 Episode 08: Words and gardens. With Sean Swallow     A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Garden soundtrack   Is there anything left to write about gardens?   The garden as a place of ideas   The garden as a place of activity – where ideas can flow.   Words as containers...

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Garden soundtrack Birdsong, growing by the day   One more week of winter   Meteorological and astronomical calendars   Somewhere on the threshold between two seasons   #thatwinterspringthing hashtag https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/...

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Garden soundtrack January, and standing about in the cold.   Winter readings.   Lines from Alexander Pope's Epistle IV, to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_loci   Leisure , by William Henry Davies ...

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Garden soundtrack     Winter reading, micro reviews.   The Well-Tempered Garden , by Christopher Lloyd, paperback edition published 2014 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson  https://amzn.to/2UVFJNX   Home Ground, by Dan Pearson, published 2011 by...

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Call yourself a gardener? Gardening without a garden, with Alice Vincent.   Garden soundtrack   Autumn ending.   A micro review of The Thrifty Gardner , by Alys Fowler https://amzn.to/2zlYlgG , with an extract read by Beth Pinkerton.    D...

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.      Garden soundtrack     The end of British Summertime, and what the sun has been getting up to.     Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)  https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/seasonal-affective-disorder-sad/   Overcoming the Winter Blues  https://www...

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.     Garden soundtrack     October reflections     A micro review of Monty Don's  The Ivington Diaries , published 2009 by Bloomsbury. Criminally, this now appears to be out of print, but I'm sure you can track a second hand copy down.  https://amzn.to/2yd3SFE       Gardening in the lan...

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.     Garden soundtrack.   September.    A micro review of The Almanac – a seasonal guide to 2018 , by Lia Leendertz, and a trail for the 2019 version , just published.   Question: why do we make gardens?   Tom Massey's garden for the Lemon Tree Trust at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018 http...

A new gardening podcast is coming, from Andrew O'Brien, gardener and blogger at Gardens, Weeds & Words. It's a blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, as well as readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   Don't forget to subscribe!