The Garden Log is an award winning podcast from Ben Dark, Head Gardener at an English country estate. Episodes begin with a review of events in the flowerbeds, meadows and woodland, before moving on to discuss horticultural matters more generally.
Ben is an ever-curious host who does not take himself, his job or gardening too seriously. A half-hour spent in his company is a half-hour spent far away from the myriad concerns of modern life.
102 Available Episodes (102 Total)Average duration: 00:28:13
Jun 16, 2022
How to keep plants alive (and other mysteries)
00:34:00
In this excellent episode Ben finds roses like cats, lawns like dunes and flowers like clothes pegs. Also featuring a few simple tricks to stop things dying.
May 20, 2022
Pine riots, wolf-vines and the joy of other people's gardens: A gardening podcast
00:39:58
Its a sultry spring day on the Garden Log. We muse on the kindness of strangers, advise on planting for a rubble-strewn drive and yearn for romance.
Underrated shrubs, sweet perfumes and the art of the Garden Room: A petal strewn podcast
00:32:34
In this recreation of a lost walk Ben visits the garden of G. N Brandt (deceased) who brought the arts and crafts movement to Denmark and whose modest orchard-watergarden-woodland survives in the suburbs north of Copenhagen.
#100 Perfect mistakes, rhubarb, rollercoasters, tulips and timeslips: A gardening podcast
00:30:47
Its spring and Ben is gardening hard. In a special dispatch from the flowerbeds he reports on sparrows, cosmos and creeping jenny. Also featuring a trip to the fairground, tabloid libel and a woman named X
Apr 26, 2022
#99 Wildflowers, Tyrants and Sweet Magnolia: A Gardening Podcast
00:36:49
Ben discusses Ornithogolum, irises, poppies and golden fleece. Also featuring a trip to the Boboli gardens in Florence and a reading from The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 1/2 Front Gardens - recently described by The Daily Telegraph as ‘the best gardening book of 2022’ and available to order from everywhere here: linktr.ee/bendark
#98 [On Location] The good, the mad and the hyggeligt: front gardens of Hellerup
00:34:19
In this special episode of The Garden Log Ben walks out one mid-spring morning in search of beauty and blossom. The pavements brings him plants, thoughts, birdsong and some sort of helicopter, all of which are lovingly reported on.
For more of this sort of thing try The Grove: Available to order now:
#94 Sowing Eupatorium, seeing Sorbus and reverting Picea + The Grove, the wind, the snow and the seagulls
00:27:51
Ben takes to the seed compost, hunts cactus through the snow and talks about his new book, which, by the way, is available to buy here! https://linktr.ee/bendark
Jan 19, 2022
#93 The surprising speed of Arum italicum: featuring Proust’s Asparagus, Mahonia x media and the Aucuba fertilisation frenzy of 1865
00:26:58
Celebrate the return of the Garden Log with some of your favourite shrubs!
Plus mulch shovelling, cotinus and some dodgey but lovable carex
Jun 16 | 00:34:00
How to keep plants alive (and other mysteries)
May 20 | 00:39:58
Pine riots, wolf-vines and the joy of other people's gardens: A gardening podcast
May 12 | 00:32:34
Underrated shrubs, sweet perfumes and the art of the Garden Room: A petal strewn podcast
May 05 | 00:30:47
#100 Perfect mistakes, rhubarb, rollercoasters, tulips and timeslips: A gardening podcast
Apr 26 | 00:36:49
#99 Wildflowers, Tyrants and Sweet Magnolia: A Gardening Podcast
Apr 01 | 00:34:19
#98 [On Location] The good, the mad and the hyggeligt: front gardens of Hellerup
Mar 18 | 00:31:36
#97 Of oligarchs, snowberries and other shade lovers: A gardening podcast
Feb 10 | 00:32:18
#95 Rose pruning with King Midas: A gardening podcast
Jan 28 | 00:27:51
#94 Sowing Eupatorium, seeing Sorbus and reverting Picea + The Grove, the wind, the snow and the seagulls
Jan 19 | 00:26:58
#93 The surprising speed of Arum italicum: featuring Proust’s Asparagus, Mahonia x media and the Aucuba fertilisation frenzy of 1865
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