Gardens, weeds and words
37 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsA blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing. With Andrew O'Brien.
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S03 Episode 10: Rosemary for remembrance. With Maya Thomas
February 08, 2024 16:32 - 59 minutes - 55.3 MBGardens, weeds and words podcast, S03E10 show notes 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 February; the natural world waking up; the bossiness of raised beds 2:00 Reading from I was right all along, on my Substack, Bramble & Briar 3:41 the resilience of the purple sage 4:45 Interview with Maya Thomas Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Diploma...
S03 Episode 09: Gardens for Good Causes. With Hattie Ghaui
October 10, 2023 16:07 - 56 minutes - 52.9 MBGardens for Good Causes, with Hattie Ghaui 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 glory of October 3:25 Reading from Kew Gardens, by Virginia Woolf. Written in 1919, available in hardback from Kew Publications, 2018 Read by Milli Proust 8:19 Interview with Hattie Ghaui 9:00 A summary of Project Giving Ba...
S03 Episode 8: Designing with flowers. With Hazel Gardiner
August 08, 2023 09:20 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBDesigning with flowers. With Hazel Gardiner 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 Over the hump of the year 1:56 Vita Sackville west struggling with summer Readings from In Your Garden, Vita Sackville West. Oxenwood Press, 1996 Read by Andrew Timothy O'Brien 5:30 Interview with Hazel Gardiner 5:55 Creat...
S03 Episode 7: To Stand and Stare. With Andrew Timothy O'Brien
February 16, 2023 16:32 - 51 minutes - 48.2 MBA 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 Cracking ice while walking through the fields – is it too soon to say, or is winter beginning to think about handing over to spring? A great time for mulching. Reading from To stand and stare 3:02 Read by Andrew Timothy O'Brien To stand and stare: how to garden while doing ne...
S03 Episode 6: Flower & Story. With Milli Proust
December 17, 2022 20:38 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBA 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 bringing new and rare experiences – December snow in Kent, and recording the audio version of my new book. Reading from To stand and stare 2:10 Read by Andrew Timothy O'Brien To stand and stare: how to garden while doing next to nothing, by Andrew Timothy O'Brien. DK Lif...
S03 Episode 5: Where the sun don't shine. With Susanna Grant
October 26, 2022 12:38 - 50 minutes - 46.9 MBA 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 joys of October in the garden. Reading from A breath from elsewhere, by Mirabel Osler 4:28 Read by Jemma Cooper A breath from elsewhere, by Mirabel Osler. Bloomsbury, 1997. https://amzn.to/3Stlvr9 06:52 Gardening in the shade 08:10 Interview with S...
S03 Episode 4: Ready for the weather. With Hannah McDonald
November 29, 2021 18:10 - 52 minutes - 48.7 MBA 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 last days of autumn, winter blowing in on the back of Storm Arwen. Coping with post-COP26 despair and overwhelm. Reading, 'Sudden Shower', by John Clare 03:22 Read by Lulu Peddar Interview with Hannah McDonald, Illustrator 6:47 I chat to Hannah about her nature insp...
S03 Episode 3: Writing with trees. With Jackee Holder
January 31, 2021 17:18 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBA 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 Dawn breaking in the garden Trees in the landscape Reading from Wildwood, A Journey Through Trees, by Roger Deakin 2:25 https://amzn.to/3r6geIJ Read by Richard Chivers Interview with Jackee Holder 4:54 05:13 'Coach and author and cultural creative' – the scope of Jackee's work, and how it came ...
S03 Episode 2: a plant-inspired practice. With Katie Robbins
December 04, 2020 18:16 - 54 minutes - 51 MBA plant-inspired practice. With Katie Robbins 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 Pondering the onset of winter, with twinkling lights and fried potatoes. Seasonal markers, and The Almanac from Lia Leendertz. Catching up with Lia Leendertz. What's new in the 2021 edition? 03:44 Reading from The Almanac: A Season...
S03 Episode 01: Home. With Jennie Spears of Lemon Tree Trust
October 23, 2020 15:37 - 52 minutes - 48.8 MBHome. With Jennie Spears of the Lemon Tree Trust 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 Why do we build gardens? Looking back to the very first episode of the podcast and Tim Massey's garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the Lemon Tree Trust https://www.tommassey.co.uk/the-lemon-tree-trust-garden Reading 05:21 Extra...
S02 Episode 11: Gratitude, privilege, responsibility. With Ann-Marie Powell
July 31, 2020 15:43 - 53 minutes - 50.2 MBA 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 Back after a break for the last episode in the series Dogs and gardening Lockdown and #BlackLivesMatter – did these change how you felt about your garden? Privilege in the gardening world Telling the stories of plants Reading 05:30 Extract from 'Science and Coloni...
S02 Episode 10: The Five Minute Garden. With Laetitia Maklouf
May 21, 2020 19:01 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBA 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 Gardening without Chelsea. The RHS Virtual Chelsea Flower Show https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/virtual-chelsea Lockdown gardening interest The Independent Plant Nursery Guide http://independentplantnurseriesguide.uk/ Should we look for a silver lining? Readi...
S02 Episode 9: Practical, useful & pretty. With Katie Rushworth
April 23, 2020 16:32 - 45 minutes - 42.4 MBA 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, and gardening in the new normal. Gardening in one place over time. Reading 04:00 Extract from The Garden Log Podcast, episode 74, read by the host, Ben Dark. https://thegardenlog.libsyn.com/ Interview with the Katie Rushworth 05:51 06:21 Not the only...
S02 Episode 8: Unearthed. With Claire Ratinon
March 27, 2020 17:38 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBA 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 Poem 00:53 Digging by Seamus Heaney Read by Jemma Mullholland from Death of a Naturalist, Seamus Heaney, Faber & Faber 1966 (new edition 2006) https://amzn.to/3bwuPpk A feeling of connection to the land. Taken for granted. Interview with the Claire Ratinon 0...
S02 Episode 7: How to Get Kids Gardening. With Lee Connelly
February 28, 2020 17:19 - 41 minutes - 38.9 MBA 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 Almost March. Children in the garden… …a gardener’s perspective The gardener in the garden… …a child's perspective Poem 03:04 The Gardener by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Peta Cootes Early experiences of plants and gardens – a minor obse...
S02 Episode 6: Rootbound. With Alice Vincent
January 31, 2020 16:32 - 47 minutes - 44.5 MBRootbound. With Alice Vincent 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 More winter behind than before us The cold and damp – joys of a good fire at the end of the day. Micro book review 02:02 Roger Deakin’s Notes from Walnut Tree Farm https://amzn.to/2uRIWVU Published by Hamish Hamilton, 2008 Extract...
S02 Episode 5: healing nature. With Alys Fowler
January 03, 2020 17:09 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBHealing nature. With Alys Fowler 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, getting back out into the garden. Rains and flooding. A sign that not all’s ok with our relationship with nature Micro book review 03:30 from The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet by Dave Goulson. Published...
S02 Episode 4: Nature in a virtual space. With Sara Tasker
November 30, 2019 18:50 - 53 minutes - 49.9 MBNature in a virtual space. With Sara Tasker 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 Gardening in the rain Most used garden tools An argument for including a smart phone Social media and gardening community Micro book review 05:09 from Rootbound. Rewilding a Life by Alice Vincent Published by C...
S02 Episode 3: Garden outlaws and weedy rebels. With Jack Wallington
November 14, 2019 16:49 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBGarden outlaws and weedy rebels. With Jack Wallington 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 Distracted by leaves What happens when the landscape meets a garden fence? The benefits of cultivated plants Where weeds come in Reading 04:48 from Weeds. The Story of Outlaw Plants by Richard Mabey https...
S02EP02: Unknown ground. With Grant Simon Rogers
October 24, 2019 15:50 - 33 minutes - 31.5 MBA 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 Soggy October. Knowing a place, season to season. The idea of UNKNOWN GROUND (Terra Incognita) Reading 04:48 from Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane https://amzn.to/2WgmH5N Read by Rachel Coldbreath. Interview with Grant Simon Rogers 06:46 07:1...
S02 Episode 1: Nature all around. With Caro Langton
September 26, 2019 17:58 - 36 minutes - 34.2 MBS02 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 Nature Unnoticed 07:28 The pot of basil ...
S01 Episode 15: Absolute beginners. With Lucy Lucraft
August 22, 2019 20:05 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBA 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.to/2ZbVJB5 Extract read by the author In...
S01 Episode 14: Affirmations, arguments, and alstroemerias
July 28, 2019 16:32 - 8 minutes - 8.24 MBA 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 In Your Garden by Vita Sackville-West, published by Frances Lincoln, r...
S01 Episode 13: Joined-up gardens. With Jo Thompson
July 03, 2019 21:06 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBS01 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/2xqWSEw Full review https://gardensweedsandwords.com/gw...
S01 Episode 12: Midsummer rain. A weedling
June 25, 2019 09:47 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBS01 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 Night's Dream, ACT II SCENE I... Enter Puck. ...
S01 Episode 11: Gardens and food. With Victoria Wade
May 30, 2019 16:01 - 31 minutes - 29.4 MBS01 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 Estate 2009 https://amzn.to/30RYt3T Extract read by Rich...
S01 Episode 10: Someone else's garden. With Marian Boswall
May 10, 2019 07:09 - 36 minutes - 34.5 MBS01 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 Extract read by Laetitia Turning someone els...
S01 Episode 09: Who is gardening for? With Sara Venn
April 11, 2019 21:17 - 42 minutes - 40 MBS01 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://amzn.to/2Ud183o Extract read by Rose White ...
S01 Episode 08: Words and gardens. With Sean Swallow
March 15, 2019 07:04 - 41 minutes - 33.6 MBS01 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 for thoughts and ideas Interview with Sean Swallow ...
S01 Episode 07: On the threshold. With Lia Leendertz
February 21, 2019 19:56 - 41 minutes - 34 MBA 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/thatwinterspringthing/ Great Comp Garden Comp Lane Platt...
S01 Episode 06: To stand and stare. With Laura Ellen Bacon
January 24, 2019 18:18 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBA 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_(poem) Interview with La...
S01 Episode 05: Gardening for wildlife. With Kate Bradbury
December 20, 2018 15:30 - 41 minutes - 39.1 MBA 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 Conran Octopus https://amzn.to/2V0L8mB Using #betwixtmas to pl...
S01 Episode 04: Call yourself a gardener? Gardening without a garden, with Alice Vincent
November 22, 2018 21:45 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBA 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. Do you need a garden to consider yourself a gardener? Interview...
S01 Episode 03: "More light", with Ros Atkinson of @her_dark_materials
November 01, 2018 18:01 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBA 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.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/dealing-with-winter-blues-s...
S01 Episode 02: Gardening in the landscape with Celia Hart
October 12, 2018 09:39 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBA 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 landscape. How we impose ourselves on the landscape with our gardens (as wel...
S01 Episode 01: September. Wondering why we make gardens, and chatting with Jane Perrone.
September 16, 2018 16:18 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBA 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://www.tommassey.co.uk/the-lemon-tree-trust-garden/ The impulse to c...
Trailer for the new Gardens, Weeds & Words podcast
July 28, 2018 08:36 - 1 minute - 1.3 MBA 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!