Effortless Garden Style with Ben Dark

In the Deep Dive podcast, host Jane Perrone chats to one of the Garden Collective writers about their latest column, finding out what makes their horticultural hearts tick. In this episode, Ben Dark joins Jane to discuss his article, Heavenly Dishevelment, explaining how to make your garden look venerable, ancient and effortlessly stylish.

Heavenly Dishevelment

If you are a member of the Garden Collective, you can read Ben's article by clicking the link below.

Heavenly Dishevelment: A Guide to Effortless Good Taste

Are the best gardens designed or created? Why are beetles crawling on my World of Interiors Magazine? What cut flowers would go with my collection of pornographic postcards? These and other questions answered in a dispatch from fashion’s frontline.

Garden CollectiveBen Dark

Ben also mentioned some of this favourite articles:

It's My Sea Monster and I'll Cry if I Want To...

Unfashionable gardeners of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your dignity.

The Garden CollectiveSandra Lawrence

Trees: A Requiem

'Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.' Bill Vaughan.

The Garden CollectiveJinny Blom

About Ben

Ben Dark is the author of brilliant book The Grove: a Nature Odyssey in 19 1/2 Front Gardens and he is also the voice behind podcasts The Garden Log and Dear Gardener.

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

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