• Hellos and Goodbyes
    Oct 18 2022

    A fond farewell from Ben and directions to the new podcast Dear Gardener, where the Garden Log lives on in spirit.

    I'm going to keep the Garden Log online for those who want to relisten or are finding it for the first time. I'm think ready to start again from the beginning!

    Dear Gardener can be found on apple here: https://linktr.ee/deargardener 

     

    If you have enjoyed the Garden Log over the past 4 years or would like to contribute to its ongoing hosting fees consider buying me a digital coffee at https://ko-fi.com/bendark

     

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    6 mins
  • How to keep plants alive (and other mysteries)
    Jun 16 2022

    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.

     

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    34 mins
  • Pine riots, wolf-vines and the joy of other people's gardens: A gardening podcast
    May 20 2022

    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.

    https://ko-fi.com/bendark

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    40 mins
  • Underrated shrubs, sweet perfumes and the art of the Garden Room: A petal strewn podcast
    May 12 2022

    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.

    https://ko-fi.com/bendark

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    33 mins
  • #100 Perfect mistakes, rhubarb, rollercoasters, tulips and timeslips: A gardening podcast
    May 5 2022

    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

     

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    31 mins
  • #99 Wildflowers, Tyrants and Sweet Magnolia: A Gardening Podcast
    Apr 26 2022

    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 

    https://ko-fi.com/bendark

     

     

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    37 mins
  • #98 [On Location] The good, the mad and the hyggeligt: front gardens of Hellerup
    Apr 1 2022

    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:

    https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-grove/ben-dark/9781784727383

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    34 mins
  • #97 Of oligarchs, snowberries and other shade lovers: A gardening podcast
    Mar 18 2022

    The garden log comes out in favour of seed heads, weeds some beds, throws some droops, sees some shoots - you know, gardening stuff!

    For events tickets go here - https://linktr.ee/bendark

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    32 mins