May 10, 2019
S01 Episode 10: Somone else’s garden. With Marian
Boswall
A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation,
and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.
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Garden soundtrack
The cuckoo.
Someone else’s garden
Micro book review
Sweet Peas for Summer by Laetitia Maklouf,
published by Bloomsbury 2012
Extract read by Laetitia
Turning someone else’s garden into your own – the
client-designer relationship.
Who really is the client?
Interview with Marian Boswall. 08:34
08:35 The client is the planet
10:19 Using Instagram to engage people about their
gardens
12:00 The difference between landscape architect and
garden designer
14:14 A spiritual side of gardening
17:00 The Blackthorn Trust https://www.blackthorn.org.uk/?page_id=6
17:46 Biodynamic gardening
19:30 Domestic gardens and the landscape
22:10 The garden city movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement
22:52 Planning nature back in to our
towns
23:50 Gardening across society
25:00 Gardening in the city
26:00 Wakehurst Place and the Millennium Seed
Bank https://www.kew.org/wakehurst/whats-at-wakehurst/millennium-seed-bank?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgZut7LGQ4gIVz7ftCh1eFgYSEAAYASAAEgLCNvD_BwE
26:32 INTENTION and PURPOSE in the garden
28:00 The ‘Bossy Garden’
29:40 Big ticket garden design – how does it trickle
down?
A huge thank you to Marian for joining me on this episode. You
can find her here:
instagram: instagram.com/marianboswalllandscapes/
twitter: twitter.com/MarianBoswall
website: https://www.marianboswall.com/
Thanks also to Laetitia Maklouf for reading from her book,
Sweet Peas for Summer. You can find Laetitia online on her
website here https://laetitiamaklouf.com/,
where you can sign up for her regular newsletter.
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