S01 Episode 02: Gardening in the landscape with Celia Hart

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.     Garden soundtrack     October reflections     A micro review of Monty Don's The Ivington Diaries, published 2009 by Bloomsbury. Criminally, this now appears to be out of print, but I’m sure you can track a second hand copy down. https://amzn.to/2yd3SFE       Gardening in the landscape. How we impose ourselves on the landscape with our gardens (as well as our towns and cities and all the built infrastructure of modern life) – which might sound a little overcooked but, really – hear me out here.      An interview with the splendid Celia Hart, whose illustrations you may well know from Gardens Illustrated Magazine and now the new Almanac for 2019. Celia's website is here. www.celiahart.co.uk   Gardens Illustrated Magazine. https://www.gardensillustrated.com/   A review of The Almanac: a seasonal guide for 2019 by Lia Leendertz with illustrations by Celia Hart on the blog at http://www.gardensweedsandwords.com/gwwblog/almanac-2019   An interesting article on green corridors for wildlife in urban environments. The role of green corridors for wildlife conservation in urban landscape: a literature review. H A Aziz and M H Rasidi, 2014 http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/18/1/012093     Derek Jarman at Prospect Cottage.   Modern Nature: The journals of Derek Jarman 1989-1990, which details the creation of the garden at Prospect Cottage https://amzn.to/2yz3Nvk   Derek Jarman’s Garden, a hardback volume dedicated to the garden, including Jarman’s own handwritten notes.  https://amzn.to/2NDs4pE     Dungeness links   Dungeness Old Lighthouse https://dungenesslighthouse.com/   RSPB Dungeness http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/d/dungeness/index.aspx   Dungeness page of the Romney Marsh website https://theromneymarsh.net/dungeness   Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway http://www.rhdr.org.uk/     Beth Pinkerton, our charming reader for this episode's book review. Twitter https://twitter.com/MissPinks Instagram instagram.com/misspinks