The Garden Log

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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…

• 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…