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Gardens, weeds and words


Feb 21, 2019

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.
 
These notes may contain affiliate links. 
 
 
Garden soundtrack
Birdsong, growing by the day
 
One more week of winter
 
Meteorological and astronomical calendars
 
Somewhere on the threshold between two seasons
 
#thatwinterspringthing hashtag
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/thatwinterspringthing/
 
Great Comp Garden
Comp Lane
Platt, Nr Sevenoaks
Kent
TN15 8QS
https://greatcompgarden.co.uk/
 
 
Micro book review
 
‘Galanthus’ from Bulb, by Anna Pavord
https://amzn.to/2GBvElb
 
Published by Mitchell Beazley 2009
 
 
Interview with Lia Leendertz
 
07:06  Plant memories
 
11:04   What Lia’s garden says about her
 
16:43   Lia’s cookbook Petal, Leaf, Seed – taking flavours from the garden
 
17:44   How the Almanac came about
 
22:15   The benefits of living in tune with the seasons
 
27:16   What if the stories run out?
 
30:42   Hope for the future
 
Stephen Blackmore https://twitter.com/SteveBlackm0re, British botanist,  former Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and chair of Botanic Gardens Conservation International http://www.bgci.org/
 
33:48   Lia’s favourite season
 
36:53   The Instagram hashtag #myalmanacmoment: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/myalmanacmoment/
 
 
 
Seasonal signs – are the seasons merging?
 
Help The Woodland Trust track the effects of weather and climate change with Nature’s Calendar
https://naturescalendar.woodlandtrust.org.uk/
 
 
 
You can find Lia on on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lialeendertz and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lia_leendertz/
 
 
The Almanac, a seasonal guide to 2019 is available at your local indy book stores, or you can buy it from Amazon here https://amzn.to/2VcP82D
 
 
 
With thanks to Lia for being my guest this episode, and to Charles Budd for his wonderful reading. You can find Charlie here: Twitter https://twitter.com/charliebudd Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thetallphotographer/
 
 
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