Ep. 62 - As the year's growing season fades into winter - now is a great time to think about renovating your borders for the coming year, so Lucy and Saul discuss why this is important to any garden.
11/10/20 • 22 min
2020 has been an unusual and difficult year for many, and we understand that the full repercussions of what we have all been through are still to be felt - but with summer waning and the glory of Autumn still to come, we continue with a healthy amount of discussion on some of our favourite horticultural topics, bringing a little dose of the garden to your daily lives.
Borders, both herbaceous and mixed, are one of the keystones to any garden, and whether on a grand scale such as at Stonelands and East Donyland, or small in the average back garden - renovating every few years is essential to keep them looking at there best, creating a different look as the years go by and experimenting with differing styles and colour combinations. Lucy and Saul take a look at how they approach renovating their borders and why it is the ultimate test for any Head Gardener.
Twitter links:
Saul @GardeningSaul
Lucy @HeadGardenerLC
Intro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io
"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
2020 has been an unusual and difficult year for many, and we understand that the full repercussions of what we have all been through are still to be felt - but with summer waning and the glory of Autumn still to come, we continue with a healthy amount of discussion on some of our favourite horticultural topics, bringing a little dose of the garden to your daily lives.
Borders, both herbaceous and mixed, are one of the keystones to any garden, and whether on a grand scale such as at Stonelands and East Donyland, or small in the average back garden - renovating every few years is essential to keep them looking at there best, creating a different look as the years go by and experimenting with differing styles and colour combinations. Lucy and Saul take a look at how they approach renovating their borders and why it is the ultimate test for any Head Gardener.
Twitter links:
Saul @GardeningSaul
Lucy @HeadGardenerLC
Intro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io
"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Ep. 61 - (Part 2 of 2) On the second half of Lucy and Saul's visit to RHS Hyde Hall they take a look at some of the different planting on offer including the Dry Garden and Winter Garden.
2020 has been an unusual and difficult year for many, and we understand that the full repercussions of what we have all been through are still to be felt - but with summer waning and the glory of Autumn still to come, we continue with a healthy amount of discussion on some of our favourite horticultural topics, bringing a little dose of the garden to your daily lives.
On Lucy and Saul's Essex Road trip a few weeks back they visited RHS Hyde Hall near Chelmsford, a gorgeous garden know for its sweeping vistas, dry garden and huge herbaceous and mixed planting island beds. In this second part they take a good look around the garden as a whole, admiring the planting in both the dry and winter gardens, as well as musing on the sweeping herbaceous and mixed planting that demonstrate a great sense of what can be achieved in a more difficult growing environment.
Twitter links:
Hyde Hall @RHSHydeHall
Saul @GardeningSaul
Lucy @HeadGardenerLC
Intro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io
"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Bonus Episode #9 - Lucy and Saul have a wonderful conversation with Matt Biggs - a horticultural storyteller and guru - about his career, pirate botany and being throttled by Adam Frost
From time to time Lucy and Saul decided they wanted to record conversations with other Head Gardeners, Curators, Garden Owners and fellow horticulturists across the UK, these will be published as Bonus Episodes alongside their usual format of chatting about their gardening lives. We hope you enjoy.
For the Bonus Episode #9 were joined by horticultural everyman and purveyor of botanical stories, Matt Biggs - whose career is as widespread as any having studied at Pershore and Kew, cleaned toilets and ended up as one of the most familiar voices on radio, TV and in written word. We talk about his career, pirate botanist and being throttled by Adam Frost.
Twitter links:
Matt @plantmadman
Saul @GardeningSaul
Lucy @HeadGardenerLC
Intro and Outro music from https://filmmusic.io
"Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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