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The Secrets Gardens Keep

October 8, 2026 · 24 min

From Venice to Plumstead, remarkable stories lurk behind ivy-covered walls. This episode of the Garden Log leaps the wall of an abandoned garden on the island of Giudecca to tell of gout, roses, princesses, pills, Gertrude Jekyll's sister…
Is the Cottage Garden Dead?

October 1, 2026 · 33 min

Can the English Cottage Garden survive in the new world of scorching summers and blasted borders? Is there still a place for higgledy beauty and perennial favourites in our strange new world? Find out in this 500 year history of the…
Abutilon, Abutilon!

September 24, 2026 · 33 min

Celebrating the beauty and strangeness of plants. This week we lope into the half-shade with graceful Magnolia kobus, elegant Abutilon 'Patrick Synge' and the monstrous Hydrangea aspera 'Bellevue', before bursting into the light with…
Sisyphus on the Lawn

September 17, 2026 · 31 min

An existential defence of high maintenance gardening. Why should we strive for ease when working outside feels so good? With some carex, some meristems and some plant morphology for good measure. And thank you for preordering Green…
So farewell Monty Don

September 10, 2026 · 25 min

In this post-rain episode of cult gardening podcast The Garden Log we say goodbye to the universal uncle Monty Don who is to retire from Gardeners' World. But our Gardeners' World keeps turning, so also enjoy introductions to the gorgeous…

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Plants for problematic places, paths for ponderous people: a gardening podcast

September 4, 2026 · 27 min

In this late summer sunset of an episode Ben visits Down House, home of Charles Darwin, considers the hybrid geranium and praises the Michaelmas daisy. Any emails to thegardenlogpodcast@gmail.com
Heavenly Dishevelment

August 27, 2026 · 20 min

Are the best gardens designed or created? Why are there beetles crawling on my World of Interiors magazine? What cut flowers would go with my collection of pornographic postcards? These and other important questions answered in the guide…
Flight of the aspidistra

August 21, 2026 · 36 min

Two very different 3am trips to the garden this week as heat gives way to rain. Also, using soft cuttings and plastic cups to make plants from plants, some Musa basjoo, some Clerodendrum trichotomum, some Solanum laciniatum and some flower…
Grey sedge, smuggled cuttings, a watering disaster and the new garden at Grosvenor Square

August 14, 2026 · 35 min

How will our gardens look in the future? Ben visits the new garden in Grosvenor Square with its Nigel Dunnett planting to find out. Also featuring: tragedy at bathtime; some borrowed seedlings; a 4000 year old stumpery and Tom Stoppard's…
Old roses, strange apples: finding beauty in the bleached bones of an English summer

August 7, 2026 · 21 min

Is Thomas Knight the greatest villain in the history of fruit growing? And how does a Frenchman's marriage influence the rose gardens of England? These and other very important questions answered in an episode of The Garden Log recorded in…
In praise of shadow, featuring Baroque hornbeams and Emily Brontë

July 30, 2026 · 23 min

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

July 24, 2026 · 37 min

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…

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About the show

Welcome to a strange green world. This is the audio journal of award-wining British author, gardener and plant historian Ben Dark. A witty and intelligent window into the remarkable life of plants and the beautiful places they grow.