Gardens, weeds and words

S01 Episode 10: Someone else's garden. With Marian Boswall

05.10.2019 - By Andrew O'Brien: gardener, blogger, podcasterPlay

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S01 Episode 10: Somone else’s garden. With Marian Boswall     A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.        Garden soundtrack   The cuckoo.   Someone else’s garden   Micro book review   Sweet Peas for Summer by Laetitia Maklouf, published by Bloomsbury 2012 https://amzn.to/2JdtFom   Extract read by Laetitia     Turning someone else’s garden into your own – the client-designer relationship.   Who really is the client?   Interview with Marian Boswall. 08:34   08:35 The client is the planet    10:19 Using Instagram to engage people about their gardens   12:00 The difference between landscape architect and garden designer   14:14 A spiritual side of gardening   17:00 The Blackthorn Trust https://www.blackthorn.org.uk/?page_id=6   17:46 Biodynamic gardening    19:30 Domestic gardens and the landscape   22:10 The garden city movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement    22:52 Planning nature back in to our towns    23:50 Gardening across society   25:00 Gardening in the city   26:00 Wakehurst Place and the Millennium Seed Bank https://www.kew.org/wakehurst/whats-at-wakehurst/millennium-seed-bank?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgZut7LGQ4gIVz7ftCh1eFgYSEAAYASAAEgLCNvD_BwE   26:32 INTENTION and PURPOSE in the garden   28:00 The ‘Bossy Garden’   29:40 Big ticket garden design – how does it trickle down?   A huge thank you to Marian for joining me on this episode. You can find her here: instagram: instagram.com/marianboswalllandscapes/ twitter: twitter.com/MarianBoswall website: https://www.marianboswall.com/   Thanks also to Laetitia Maklouf for reading from her book, Sweet Peas for Summer. You can find Laetitia online on her website here https://laetitiamaklouf.com/, where you can sign up for her regular newsletter.      website: gardensweedsandwords.com email: [email protected] Instagram: instagram.com/AndrewTimothyOB Twitter: twitter.com/AndrewTimothyOB 

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