The Garden Log

The Garden Log is an award winning /gardening/history/botany podcast from Ben Dark

Grey sedge, smuggled cuttings, a watering disaster and the new garden at Grosvenor Square 08/14/2026

Old roses, strange apples: finding beauty in the bleached bones of an English summer 08/07/2026

In praise of shadow, featuring Baroque hornbeams and Emily Brontë 07/31/2026

Green Fingers are the Extensions of a Verdant Heart: Russell Page and Redcurrants 07/24/2026

Green Ghosts and Fading Clones 07/17/2026

How to keep plants alive (and other mysteries) 06/16/2022

Pine riots, wolf-vines and the joy of other people's gardens: A gardening podcast 05/20/2022

Underrated shrubs, sweet perfumes and the art of the Garden Room: A petal strewn podcast 05/12/2022

#100 Perfect mistakes, rhubarb, rollercoasters, tulips and timeslips: A gardening podcast 05/05/2022

#99 Wildflowers, Tyrants and Sweet Magnolia: A Gardening Podcast 04/26/2022

#98 [On Location] The good, the mad and the hyggeligt: front gardens of Hellerup 04/01/2022

#97 Of oligarchs, snowberries and other shade lovers: A gardening podcast 03/18/2022

#95 Rose pruning with King Midas: A gardening podcast 02/10/2022

#94 Sowing Eupatorium, seeing Sorbus and reverting Picea + The Grove, the wind, the snow and the seagulls 01/28/2022

#93 The surprising speed of Arum italicum: featuring Proust’s Asparagus, Mahonia x media and the Aucuba fertilisation frenzy of 1865 01/19/2022

#92 [On Location] Life in the Ruins: Mutant brambles and runaway figs in the deserted village of Campo di Brenzone 11/08/2021

#91 [On Location] Kitchen Garden Confidential 10/26/2021

#90 [On Location] Bernstorff Slotshave 1: A good walk foiled 10/14/2021

#89 Copenhagen: city of roses (A gardening podcast) 08/02/2021

#88 Goodbye to all that 06/30/2021

#87 Acer griseum, Crocus chrysanthus, frost reports and water fountains: a gardening podcast 03/12/2021

#86 New discoveries, old adversaries and very strong coffee: A gardening podcast 01/11/2021

#85 Russian sage, British mud, almond puddings: A gardening podcast 12/21/2020

#85 How to rehabilitate an olive, revive a flowerbed and restore a rockery 11/20/2020

#83 Hard edges, cold winds and twelve thousand little droplets of hope: A gardening podcast 09/28/2020

#82 Scything for beginners, rose pruning for experts and lawn mowing for everyone 08/10/2020

#81 Yellow trees, purple trees and Isabella Trees + naked calendars, shredded perennials and a new vegetable garden. 07/05/2020

#80 How to choose bog plants for dry gardens, plant a wild urn and massively amplify astrantias 06/10/2020

#79 The economy of beauty: tree ferns, aconites, thermopsis and frost 05/15/2020

#78 Creative weeding, lily beetles and impossibly clashing shades of tulip 04/28/2020