In this episode we cut back on the lavender, discuss favourite plants and tragically find out why its never a good idea to rush things in the garden.

September arrives with cold mornings and new smells. We start propagating next year's superstars, indulge in luxury weeding and discuss why now is the time for new gardening projects.

Thirty minutes of horticultural reflection and comment. Contentment guaranteed     

In this literally groundbreaking episode of The Garden Log Ben experiments with home remedies for powdery mildew, cuts hedges, talks about flowers and drives into a fox hole.

The Garden Log. A podcast for people and plants

This week the Garden Log is infested. Not that we let it stop us creating a beautiful new border or taking a trip to Oxford. No crying please, lets all talk about flowers

In this episode of the Garden Log we drop in on a suave french landscape architect, rip out some grass, laugh in the face of ugliness and soak our eyes in beauty. Not since Eden have plants and people been in such perfect harmony.

In this episode wisteria is tamed, lawnmowers are ridden like chariots and rain falls like an upturned river. Also, advice on how to steal ideas and a discussion of the horticultural tasks that every good gardener should master

In this cheese-wine charmed episode of The Garden Log we talk meadows, short lived perennials, lilly-beetles, and acorns. We also pay a visit to a National Trust garden and travel back in time to meet a Victorian head gardener

This hottest day of the year coincides with the wildflower orchard's annual hay cut. I harvest dahlias for garish, smile-inducing vases of midsummer joy and we discuss whether its possible to imbue certain flower beds with a profound aura of cosmic dread. 

All in a weeks work on The Garden Log!

In this episode we go garish for a garden fiesta, learn how to use ornamental grass to soften harsh borders and go scrumping for black mulberries. All this and more in the latest episode of Britain’s most addictive gardening podcast.

In hazy midsummer Ben Dark tells stories about trees and recommends some border-filling plants for mid-summer swaps