Nov 14, 2019
Garden outlaws and
weedy rebels. With Jack Wallington
A blend of slow radio,
gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best
garden and wildlife writing.
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Garden
soundtrack
Distracted by
leaves
What happens when the landscape
meets a garden fence?
The benefits of cultivated
plants
Where weeds come
in
Reading
04:48
from Weeds. The Story of
Outlaw Plants by Richard Mabey
Read by Milli
Proust.
What do we mean by the word
“weed”?
Native wildflowers and
non-native invasive intruders
Stinking Bob and
Squinterpip.
Interview with Jack
Wallington 10:50
11:15 What Jack was doing
before he became a garden designer.
The Royal Horticultural
Society qualifications Levels 2 and 3
Royal Botanic Garden
Edinburgh
15:41 Jack’s earliest
experience of plants and gardens within the
landscape
20:16 Is there a plant
nearer to Jack’s heart that the dahlia he’s so often associated
with?
21:46 Sustainability in
Jack’s work
24:44 The
tension between how nature behaves, and how we want her to
behave in the garden
27:50 Jack’s new
book, Wild about weeds. Garden design with rebel
plants.
33:01 Responses to the idea
of purposefully incorporating weeds into the
garden.
Thanks so much to Jack for
coming along to talk about his new book, Wild about weeds.
Garden design with rebel plants, published by Laurence
King. https://amzn.to/2CHHiH4. The best
place to find out more about Jack, his garden design practice and
his personal gardening journey, is on his website at
www.jackwallington.com.
I’m also enormously indebted to
Milli Proust for lending her wonderful voice
skills to the podcast with the reading from Richard Mabey’s book.
You really should check out Milli’s instagram page https://www.instagram.com/milliproust/ to
see the amazing things she does with flowers – I don’t think there
can be a grower who works harder. For a fully rounded picture of
everything that she gets up to, check out Milli’s website
at https://milliproust.com/.
With thanks to all my listeners
for your continued support and reviews, I really do appreciate
them. You can support the podcast by buying its producer a virtual
cup of coffee for three quid, at https://ko-fi.com/andrewtimothyOB.
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podcast hosting fees.
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