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Propagating skills to save our nurseries: launching Hortistry
Specialist plant nurseries are quietly disappearing across the country and with them go plant collections and propagation skills. How can we preserve these skills and plants?
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People who have inspired us & made a change to gardening.
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The Nicest Man in Horticulture
Remembering Matthew Biggs
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Karl Foerster: Nurseryman, Plant Breeder, Philosopher... but no Hero
150 years since the birth of one of the world's most significant figures in garden history is an opportunity to find out more and assess his legacy.
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The Old Man and the Garden
When I was young, gardeners were old... now I'm in my 70s, am I over the hill?
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A paradoxical appreciation of the ordinary
Life lessons, and a garden through the eyes of the extraordinary Mary Keen
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The Unacknowledged Alan: A British Horticultural Hero You Should Know
We already have one great Alan who has stolen our horticultural hearts, but I am proposing there is another one, little known, whose legacy deserves to be celebrated.
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Celebrating The Miss Trunchbull of Gardening
It's International Women's Day, and I've discovered a gardening pioneer who started a Girls' School for Gardening
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Unveiling Lives Through Gardens: A Gardener's Perspective
Our gardens can tell the stories of our lives, and as a working gardener, we are being given a chance to listen.
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Pressed for All Time: The World’s Herbaria at the Click of a Mouse
How often do we think about the millions of dried plant specimens which have been languishing in herbaria around the world for decades? What is the point of them and why we should care?
Garden history
Gardening's First Couple
John and Jane Loudon revolutionised gardening in Britain in the 19th century
Garden history
Tone on Tone: The Romantic Chaos of Norah Lindsay's Gardens
The glamorous, unconventional world of Norah Lindsay, the garden designer whose wit, vision, and bold planting transformed the gardens of society—saving herself from near destitution
In Conversation
In Conversation: Mary Keen on Her New Book 'Diary of a Keen Gardener'
Listen in to a conversation between gardener and author Mary Keen and me, James Alexander-Sinclair.