We visit Dr Margaret Stone's national collection of asters in Worcester with Rachel de Thame, and have a good wonder around her beautiful garden at Brockamin. Tashi Dhondup in Stroud gives us a tour of his stunning garden and shows us his collection of meconopsis before Eric in Normandy France shows us his garden where he uses the no-dig method. Jilly McNaughton gives us a masterclass on building successful wildlife ponds and shows us her two at Sheepcote Green House in Saffron Waldon, Essex where she has numerous aquatic plants and a family or two of great crested newts. Finally Adam takes us to the stunning Peckover House and Gardens in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, where we meet Louise Gardner, the head gardener and understand how they're recreating the gardens from old photos and paintings by George Samuel Elgood.

Some links:

Dr Margaret Stone

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/34641/brockamin

Jilly McNaughton

https://findagarden.ngs.org.uk/garden/42210/sheepcote-green-house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwPoe4IlVEE

Peckover House and Gardens

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cambridgeshire/peckover-house-and-garden

More Not Just a Garden

https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

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On this week’s episode of Good Ol’ Chit-Chats, Mandy from Incredible Vegetables takes us to her dream garden made up of weird and wonderful “edimentals”, most of which we hadn’t heard of (apparently duck potatoes are a thing). Perennial kale has an unusual use and the walking onions blew our tiny minds🤯 Our Incredible Vegetables shopping list has been written.

Some links:

Incredible Vegetables

https://incrediblevegetables.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/incredible_vegetables/

Baddaford Farm Collective

https://www.baddaford.co.uk/

The forest garden Mandy visited on Samsø

https://www.inspiratoriet.org/about/

https://youtu.be/AtNLgcsqmXg?feature=shared

More Not Just a Garden

https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/notjusta_garden/

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This week we travel to Herefordshire with Sue Kent to meet Layla Robinson at her incredible dried flower studio and Scott Thompson shows us around his immersive garden, Fern Bank in Wirksworth, Matlock. Astrid and Frankie Drummond give us a guided tour of their beautiful garden and triangular compost bin in Sheffield before Joe Swift takes us to the incredible Church Gardens in Harefield where Patrick and Kay McHugh show us the extensive work they've done to restore the walled gardens. Finally Leyla Kazim shows us around her 5m by 7m South West London garden equipped with numerous edibles as well as her "postage stamp meadow".

Some links mentioned:

Green Manure

https://www.rhs.org.uk/soil-composts-mulches/green-manures

Layla Robinson

https://www.laylarobinson.com/

https://www.91magazine.co.uk/meet-the-maker-layla-robinson/

Scott Thompson and Beccy Owen

https://ngs.org.uk/gardens/fern-bank-de4/

Patrick and Kay McHugh

https://ngs.org.uk/gardens/church-gardens-ub9/

https://www.churchgardens.co.uk/

Leyla Kazim

https://leylakazim.substack.com/

More Not Just a Garden

https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

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