Latest Lost gardens heligan Podcast Episodes

Westonbirt's waving trees

Clever Trees - March 18, 2010 21:47 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratings
In the last of his current series celebrating Clever Trees Richard Uridge visits the National Arboretum at Westonbirt in Gloucestershire, England – with 18,000 specimens a veritable tree university – and talks to the trees.

Heligan's headache tree

Clever Trees - March 18, 2010 21:46 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratings
In the penultimate programme of his five part series on Clever Trees, Richard Uridge finds a headache-inducing specimen in the Lost Gardens of Heligan.

Australia's rain tree

Clever Trees - August 22, 2009 18:15 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratings
In the the third of his series on arboreal intelligence Richard Uridge travels to tropical Far North Queensland in Australia to meet a tree that can, it's claimed, create its own rainfall.

Washington's Siamese holly trees

Clever Trees - June 17, 2009 17:25 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratings
Richard Uridge travels to George Washington's home at Mount Vernon in America to meet two holly trees conjoined at the trunk. The first in a series of five podcasts from around the world.

Malaysia's time telling Simpoh tree

Clever Trees - June 17, 2009 16:46 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratings
In the second of his series on arboreal intelligence Richard Uridge travels to the Malaysian jungle in search of a tree so clever it can tell the time. Or at least that's the theory. Armed with a wristwatch he puts it to the test.