May 21, 2020
A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation,
and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.
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Garden soundtrack
Gardening without Chelsea.
The RHS Virtual Chelsea Flower Show https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/virtual-chelsea
Lockdown gardening interest
The Independent Plant Nursery Guide http://independentplantnurseriesguide.uk/
Should we look for a silver lining?
Reading 03:20
Extract from The Five Minute Garden by Laetitia
Maklouf, read by Emma Jo Real Davies. https://amzn.to/36l871Z
Interview with the Laetitia
Maklouf 05:15
05:44 Standard Laetitia Lore and the Sweet Pea
Seeds
07:29 Sharing online
08:44 How Laetitia has changed as a gardener
09:28 Gardening in small spaces – the benefits of
limits
10:03 Moving to real earth – option paralysis
10:36 Prescriptive approach vs you do you
11:08 Trust in your gardening instinct
12:13 Being ruthless. Or… not…! (Hotbin
Darling)
13:10 Lockdown sourdough progress
14:24 Teaching the children through
gardening
20:34 Being politely steely
22:00 Gardening overwhelm
26:10 The Five Minute Gardener
31:37 Gardening as a transactional relationship
33:25 On the decision not to have photographs in the new
book
36:44 What is Laetitia going to do when she grows
up?
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Lockdown gardening communicators on
Instagram
Just some of the folk who have really taken the opportunity to
bring people into their own gardens (particularly encouraging and
inspiring when some of them are multi award-winning designers) over
the past couple of months. Don’t miss Ann-Marie
Powell’s lunchtime talks at https://www.instagram.com/myrealgarden/,
or Jo Thompson’s daily morning dog rambles through
the Sussex countryside in the company of birds and her lovely
labrador Rush https://www.instagram.com/jothompsongarden/.
And of course, past friends of the podcast Alice
Vincent https://www.instagram.com/noughticulture/ and
Caro Langton at RoCo https://www.instagram.com/studio.roco/,
teaching us about small space gardening and houseplants in their
stories. All incredibly generous, and remarkably
accessible.
Thank you to Laetitia for joining me on this
episode. Laetitia's book The Five Minute Garden, published
by National Trust Books, 2020, is available here https://amzn.to/36l871Z
Laetitia's website: https://laetitiamaklouf.com/
Laetitia on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/laetitiamaklouf
And to Emma Jo Real Davies for reading
from Laetitia’s book. Emma Jo’s brilliant podcast, The Female
Struggle is Real is here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-female-struggle-is-real/id1215423183 or
you can find her on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/emjorealdavies/,
or on the airwaves here https://www.kmfm.co.uk/on-air/the-hit-list-with-emma-jo/
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