Mike the Gardener - Rambling Prose
Passionate, RHS qualified gardener and designer, garden writer and Amateur Gardening columnist, sharing his passion and knowledge of gardening and plants, and generally with a trowel-full of humour.
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Balmy Evenings, Bats & Why Meryl Streep is Waiting For Me! (opens the original)
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Audio version (above)There’s just over 21 weeks til Christmas! Thank goodness, it’s eons away because I’m still too busy enjoying these balmy summer evenings, sat in the garden, enjoying good food and spending time with great friends. Yes, it’s been intensely hot in recent weeks, but the temperatures now are bliss. As I write it’s a ‘chilly’ 25°C and a fine rain fell over the garden this morning… for five minutes, which means I’ll be watering again this evening. But, heatwave and drought conditi
Phew! The Last Ring of the Landline (opens the original)
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Audio version (above)Hello there! Welcome back. How are you doing?Shall we start with gardening? It seems like a very good place to start. I’ve been sitting expectantly, tucked away in a shady nook of my garden, waiting for that headline. Yes, you know the one; it appears in July, always, once the mercury dares to venture above 30°C. Yes, that one - ‘Phew! Wot a Scorcher’! Maybe I’ve missed it. I daren’t even start on the heatwave, fearful of falling prey to that dreadful British cliche of compl
Mike the Gardener - Gardening Podcast - Clare Foggett (opens the original)
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In this one off episode, I chat to the editor of the English Garden magazine, Clare Foggett, about her new book, Beauty and Abundance recently been published by Quadrille.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="4
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