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#69 Hot tea and rainclouds: a week in an English garden
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Head Gardener Ben Dark considers the dock, rejects time travel, splits bananas and plants cyclamen
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#21 How to pot dahlias, protect your orchard roses and generally be a much better gardener
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In this episode we learn the arcane arts of the dahlia fancier, build a wall around the Malvern Hills and sow seeds of c... Read more
14 Mar 2018
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#56 Potting lemons, splitting day lilies, paranoia, drunkenness and burning down the Hyde Park Pagoda
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#36 Scything meadows, cutting dahlias and battling Cthulhu weed
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