Ben Dark

Hello and welcome my grotto in the great Garden Collective. This is where my best writing about plants, our planet and its people will be published.

But if you’re here you probably know me (I write books, next is the 400-million-year story of how some strands of algae became the our green world) I urge you to leave this Dark grotto and head into the bright of our collective garden.

Out there you will find the thoughts, writing and voices of some of our most brilliant and accomplished gardeners. Things that make you think ‘yes! I always thought that just didn’t know how to say it’ or ‘I never could have thought of that if you’d given me a hundred thousand years!’ Articles, podcasts and recordings to comfort, reassure, amuse and inform.

So let’s head into the garden together. It’s beautiful out there.

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