BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine
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BBC Gardens Illustrated is a highly respected international magazine, read in over 70 countries worldwide
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Gardens Illustrated Lecture 2011 – In conversation with Andy Sturgeon, Dan Pearson and Cleve West | Gardens Illustrated’s annual lecture takes place during Chelsea Flower Show week. This year, Vista hosts Noël Kingsbury and Tim Richardson were joined by designers Andy Sturgeon, Dan Pearson and Cleve West (hot from his ‘Best in Show’ win at Chelsea) to discuss the current trends in planting and design. | 4 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Fergus Garrett and Anna Pavord in conversation | Celebrating the life of the late Christopher Lloyd and the garden at Great Dixter. Fergus gardened alongside Christo for 20 years as his head gardener, while Anna was one of his many friends and a regular visitor to Great Dixter. The two recall an entertaining selection of anecdotes about the great man. | 29 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2010 | Gardens Illustrated editor Juliet Roberts chats with designers Dan Pearson, Jinny Blom and Andrew Wilson to find out what caught their eye at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2010. | 23 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated: Alan Titchmarsh in conversation with Beth Chatto (part 1) | Iconic gardener Beth Chatto chats with Alan about her approach to gardening through the years. | 9 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated: Alan Titchmarsh in conversation with Beth Chatto (part 2) | Iconic gardener Beth Chatto chats with Alan about her approach to gardening through the years. | 9 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated: Vista Lecture with Peter Seabrook (part 1) | Recorded in autumn 2009, garden journalist and broadcaster Peter Seabrook talks to Tim Richardson and Noel Kingsbury about his enduring passion for horticulture and plants in particular. | 19 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated: Vista Lecture with Peter Seabrook (part 2) | Recorded in autumn 2009, garden journalist and broadcaster Peter Seabrook talks to Tim Richardson and Noel Kingsbury about his enduring passion for horticulture and plants in particular. | 19 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Isabel and Julian Bannerman Vista Lecture | Recorded in summer 2009, husband and wife design team Isabel and Julian Bannerman talk about their work at gardens including Waddesdon Manor, Arundel Castle and Highgrove. | 11 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009 | Gardens Illustrated editor Juliet Roberts talks to garden design experts about their reaction to the 2009 show. | 12 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Kate Raggett | Gardens Illustrated Presents Kate Raggett. | 23 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - April 2009 | Giddy with spring, Frank Ronan sets out on a spending spree and fills his car with exciting new plants. | 17 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - March 2009 | Our normal monthly podcasts are currently postponed, but we still have columnist Frank Ronan reading his Writer's Plot. In March he is driven to distraction by the winds that sweep across his hilltop garden. | 17 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - James Hitchmough’s Vista Discussion | James is professor at the Department of Landscape at Sheffield University where he is researching the use of naturalistic herbaceous plantings within urban settings. His approach may be scientific but the reactions from those who see the swathes of colourful prairie and meadow-like planting are heartfelt. James, Noel and Tim discuss the implications of sustainability in this work and its cultural and aesthetic impact. | 9 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Garden Heroines - Joy Larkcom | Gardens Illustrated Presents Joy Larkcom - Garden Heroines Series. | 20 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Garden Heroines - Penelope Hobhouse | Gardens Illustrated Presents Penelope Hobhouse - Garden Heroines Series. | 13 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Garden Heroines - Beth Chatto | Gardens Illustrated Presents Beth Chatto - Garden Heroines Series. | 13 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Penelope Hobhouse's Vista Conversation | Acclaimed garden designer, garden historian and writer Penelope Hobhouse talks to VISTA hosts Tim Richardson and Noel Kingsbury about her life as one of our most respected gardening figures. She discusses her travels in Italy and Iran and their effect on her approach to garden design, a sense of spirituality and whether one feels a sense of virtue when creating a garden. | 27 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - February 2009 | With spring in the air we indulge in the scent of flowers as writer Caroline Beck travels to the rose fields of Iran to give us a wonderfully evocative report that perfectly complements her feature in the magazine. | 27 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - January 2009 | We have an interview with the curator of the current British Museum’s Babylon: Myth and Reality exhibition. Also, columnist Frank Ronan brings some garden fugitives in from the cold to cheer him up. | 5 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Guerrilla Gardening Lecture | Back in summer 2008, the founder of the UK's Guerrilla Gardening movement Richard Reynolds was joined by designer Brita von Schoenaich and urban geographer Dr Felicity Callard to talk about their experiences and opinions on this growing phenomena and public planting in general. | 8 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Dan Pearson’s Vista Lecture | The internationally renowned garden and landscape designer talk about some of the projects undertaken by his studio, including one of his early designs at Home Farm in Northamptonshire and the ongoing Millennium Forest project in Japan. | 8 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - December 2008 | The Gardens Illustrated team gather round to discuss their favourite features from 2008 and chat about their Christmas gift ideas. Columnist Frank Ronan continues the theme with his own thoughts on the most suitable presents for gardeners. | 19 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Sustainable Garden Design - Mark Laurence | Mark is a landscape designer and founder of green walling company Biotechture Ltd. His view of sustainability is that with the implications of peak oil, gardens must sustain our society with cyclicle production. Solutions he suggests include algae biotechture, forest gardens and aquaponics. | 27 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Sustainable Garden Design - Nigel Dunnett | Senior lecturer in the Dept of Landscape at the University of Sheffield, Nigel Dunnett talks about rain gardens, using design and planting to capture and utilise rain water - avoiding storm run off and floods. Disconnect your drainpipes! | 27 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - November 2008 | This month we remind garden designers of the 12 January deadline for entries to the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show Conceptual Gardens section and editor Juliet Roberts talks to Tim Richardson to find out more about what the judges might be looking for. | 27 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - David Cooper's Vista Lecture | Earlier this year David Cooper, professor of philosophy at Durham University discussed whether we need a philosophy of gardens. His talk considered the aesthetic, semantic and ethical meaning of a garden as experienced by both garden visitor and garden creator. | 14 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Conceptual Gardens Part 3 | Botanist and landscape designer Kate Cullity of Taylor Cullity Lethlean from Adelaide, Australia. As a partnership, their designs aim to establish an investigation into the poetic expression of the Australian landscape and contemporary culture. Kate talks through some recent projects in her presentation entitled 'Telling Stories; Inspiration from Art, Science and Landscape'. www.tcl.net.au | 31 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Conceptual Gardens Part 1 | Introduction to event with welcome from Victoria Walsh, head of public programmes at Tate Britain and Peter Thomas the chair of the SGD. 'A Landscape Can be About Anything' - Tim Richardson sets the subject into context with a look at its meaning in terms of garden design and its historical background. | 31 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Conceptual Gardens Part 4 | Landscape designer and artist Andy Cao and landscape designer Xavier Perrot of Cao Perrot Studio in Los Angeles, New York and Paris presented 'A place for Dreaming - the beauty of imperfection'. In this recording Andy Cao talks through projects to describe their work as 'a blending of landscape and art'. www.caoperrotstudio.com | 31 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - October 2008 | Not a full podcast this month – more an introduction to our extra podcasts available from the ‘Other Events’ section. But we do have Frank Ronan with his comment for October. This month he turns his thoughts to the search for appropriate attire when working in the garden. | 31 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Conceptual Gardens Part 6 | Eelco Hooftman of Edinburgh-based landscape architects Gross Max talks on the 'Art of the Artifact or Cult of the Cultivar'. The studio has undertaken many project throughout Europe earning a reputation for its contextual approach to urban spaces. www.grossmax.com | 31 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Conceptual Gardens Part 7 | Question and answer session featuring all designers and question from the floor. | 31 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Conceptual Gardens Part 5 | Landscape architect Claude Cormier is based in Montreal in Canada and works on urban landscape projects. His talk is entitled 'Artificial... Not Fake'. His first conceptual garden was created 20 years ago as a bamboo forest in a nightclub. This bringing together of opposite worlds continues to inform his work. www.claudecormier.com | 31 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Conceptual Gardens Part 2 | Swedish landscape architect Monika Gora is best known for her temporary exhibits within existing landscapes in which she aims to transform the relationship between landscape and buildings. She speaks on 'Inventing Places and Exploring by Doing'. www.gora.se | 31 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - RHS Wisley Dahlia Trials | Fergus Garrett, head gardener at Great Dixter in Sussex talks about the dahlia trials at Wisley and comments on some of the findings and his favourites. | 9 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - September 2008 | In the September podcast we indulge in our delight for dahlias with interviews from the RHS Dahlia Trials Open Day held at Wisley in Surrey. We also hear from gardener and television presenter Sarah Raven about her top tips for growing vegetables through the autumn and winter. And columnist Frank Ronan is delighted by colour in the garden. | 25 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - August 2008 | This month we hear from photographer Nic Barlow, who has pursued a life-long passion to record in pictures some of the most notable follies and grottoes of Europe. He talks about the book that he has recently released. And regular columnist Frank Ronan introduces us to Mrs Trug. | 22 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - July 2008 | A summer special with the Gardens Illustrated team getting together to chat about recent garden visits they’ve made. They talk about the Hampton Court Flower Show, a garden in Cornwall, village scarecrows and all things roses. | 22 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - June 2008 | This month we've a tour of the latest attraction at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, with head of arboriculture Tony Kirkham introducing the exciting new Rhizotron and Xstrata Treetop Walkway. We also talk to salad-growing expert Charles Dowding about his new book Salad Leaves for All Seasons. | 17 6 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2008 | Gardens Illustrated editor Juliet Roberts spoke to three garden experts, Tim Richardson, Dan Pearson and Andrew Wilson, about this year's Chelsea Flower Show. They each give their opinions on the event picking up on current trends and must-have plants. | 23 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - May 2008 podcast | A busy month in the garden and in the podcast with our first outside broadcast from the new Shirley Sherwood Gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew with Dr Sherwood showing us round the gallery's display of botanical art. Then there's an interview with author Christopher Stocks about his latest book Forgotten Fruits and Frank is mesmerised by the colour blue. Don't forget to visit our new forum and get involved in the various discussions. | 20 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Gardening with a Legacy Lecture - Museum of Garden History (part 1) | Sir Roy Strong, who created his garden The Laskett together with his late wife, and Fergus Garrett, head gardener at Great Dixter in Sussex (home to the late Christopher Lloyd) talk about their experiences of gardening with a legacy. They consider whether a garden can be expected to live beyond the life of its owner, and how to move a garden forward while respecting its heritage. | 22 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Gardening with a Legacy Lecture - Museum of Garden History (part 2) | Sir Roy Strong, who created his garden The Laskett together with his late wife, and Fergus Garrett, head gardener at Great Dixter in Sussex (home to the late Christopher Lloyd) talk about their experiences of gardening with a legacy. | 22 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Gender and Gardening Vista Discussion at the Museum of Gardening | Writer and psychotherapist Rozsika Parker joins hosts Noel Kingsbury and Tim Richardson to consider if men and women garden differently. This is a lively discussion with lots of contributions from the floor bringing up aspects of history, culture, genetics and economics both in terms of the amateur and professional gardener alike. | 14 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - April 2008 | Springtime favourites with ideas for seeing magnolias in bloom and spotting the delicate Fritillaria meleagris. Interviews include a chat with designer Helen Dooley, who is creating a Gardens Illustrated vegetable garden at the Gothenburg garden festival this summer. | 14 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - March 2008 | Inspiration for spring with co-owner of nursery Secret Seeds, John Langston, giving tips on successful seed sowing. Then we talk to the head gardener at Hever Castle in Sussex to find out more about the garden's connection with the recent release of the film The Other Boleyn Girl. | 20 3 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - William Martin's Vista Lecture at the Museum of Gardening | Considered something as a agent provocateur in the horticultural world, William Martin describes himself as 'an artist whose ideas find their best expression in the garden'. In his talk he considers the complex relationships between landscape, environment, culture and society as revealed in his own garden Wigandia in southern Australia. | 27 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - February 2008 | Highlights of the February issue plus snowdrops with Dr John Grimshaw from Colesbourne gardens and columnist Frank Ronan talks about the pleasures of weeding. | 22 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - January 2008 | Highlights of the January issue plus tales from daring plant hunters. There's also an interview with author Tim Richardson, flagging up the series of discussions he is hosting together with Noel Kingsbury at the Museum of Garden History. He talks about the recent event with landscape designer Kim Wilkie. | 22 1 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - Kim Wilkie's Vista Lecture at the Museum of Gardening | Landscape architect Kim Wilkie, whose projects include the V and A Museum garden, talks about ‘The Uses and Abuses of History’, discussing the issues of authenticity and appropriateness when it comes to garden restoration. How do we interpret the past and what are our responsibilities? Kim draws on his own experiences at Villa La Peitra in Florence, Heveningham Hall, Suffolk, Boughton Park, Northamptonshire and a private house in Hampshire, leading a lively and interesting debate. | 21 1 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - December 2007 | Florist Neil Honor of the Original Wreath Company takes us through making our own Christmas wreath using plants from the garden and Matthew Wilson, curator of the RHS garden at Harlow Carr, gives advice on a more sustainable approach to gardening. | 5 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - November 2007 | Forester Geoff Sinclair talks about the campaign to encourage the use of native-grown hazel poles in the garden, instead of bamboo from China; and in the wake of the publication of the late Christopher Lloyd’s last book Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners, Great Dixter’s head gardener Fergus Garrett talks about the bold Exotic Garden they created together. | 1 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - RGS lecture 2006 Q and A | RGS lecture 2006 with Beth Chatto and Dan Pearson Q and A. | 27 10 06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - RGS lecture 2006 | BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine - RGS lecture 2006 | 27 10 06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 54 Episodes |
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