In this episode we talk deadwood, Pope, bonsai and hope. With excitement and worry the ground is broken on a new area of the garden. Ben surveys the damage wrought by winter and fails to clean the greenhouse.

It's bare root hedges with Philip of Macedon and thick-headed gardeners with Mr Kipling in this barnstorming episode of The Garden Log

This wintery broadcast investigates how to put the garden to bed for winter and debunks some ancient Chinese wisdom. Also, green alkanet, blackbirds, foxgloves and hylotelephium.

Maybe a hot cup of tea would go well with this episode?

In this episode we take to the waves with a question from the canal-side. I’m talking the language of flowers and giving evergreen advice for early December.

Join me for another muddy-kneed tour of the English garden.

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This was a windy, thrifty, rotten sort of week. I'm talking medlars, erotic Persian gardening, phytophthora and robin training. Just November things.

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Now back in England, hands firmly in the soil, head high in the clouds.

Its time to talk compost. Also, I'll be flagging some issues with Iris pseudacorus and conducting a survey of the flowering plants still braving the November chill.

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Happy gardening!

This week’s special edition focuses on planting a spectacular, long flowering border to keep you radioactively warm all winter.

Plants used for this project:

Allium moly

Erigeron karvinskianus

x Heucherella ‘Kimono’

Hylotelephium spectabile 'Carl'

Gaura lindheimeri ‘Sparkle White’

Kniphofia ‘Toffee Nosed’

Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Sweet Winter

Sisyrinchium striatum

Another wander through the gardening week. In this episode it’s time to talk tulips. I tell the story of my Morning Glory and commiserate with a listener over his dismembered tiarella.

This week we focus on root-balled yew, how to get the best from your beautyberry and plan on transforming the garden into just the right sort of fiery hell-pit.

More gardens, gardening and horticultural advice from The Garden Log.

In this episode find out how to bring joy to bare flower beds and discover which common weed has clove flavoured roots. Also, seasonal advice on biannual bedding and how to plant bulbs on a grand scale.