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Episode 12 of Good Ol’ Chit-Chats is out now! This week we chat with Alex from Mitchell Flower Farm and travel from Kent to Chile and back again via Californian poppies that aren’t really Californian poppies, zombie eye infections and 1970s swing-seats.

Some mentions from Alex, links to which can be found here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/gardens/

• Garden designer, James Alexander Sinclaire
• Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden
• Breedon Golden Amber Gravel
• Cochoa near Vina del Mar

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The last of Gardeners' World 2024, boo. But we will be back to recap the winter specials starting next week, yay! First up, Arit Anderson takes us to Marchants Hardy Plants in East Sussex to chat with Henry Macaulay, their head gardener. We then meet Hafsah Hafeji at Aisgill Community Hub in Earls Court and see the fantastic work she does with her team of volunteers, including Shirley, Elaine, Leroy Douglas and Floyd. We join Sue Kent to meet Caroline Crocker at her place in Plymouth where she's transformed the topography of her garden and the planting in just one year. We see the incredible transformation of a disused polytunnel at St Andrews Healthcare in Birmingham and Marcin Ruta and Claire Page from Moss Clerks in Hawick lead us into the wonderful world of mosses.

Some links:

Alnwick Poison Plant Garden

https://www.alnwickgarden.com/the-garden/poison-garden/

Watering Cans

https://www.charlies.co.uk/smart-garden-9l-watering-can-sage-green/

Marchants Hardy Plants

https://www.gardensillustrated.com/gardens/gardens-to-visit/marchants-nursery-profile

https://www.marchantshardyplants.co.uk/

Hafsah Hafeji

https://www.instagram.com/hafsahhafeji/

Caroline Crocker

https://www.instagram.com/duckgardenplantsandposies/

St Andrews Healthcare

https://www.stah.org/

Moss Clerks

https://mossclerks.co.uk/collections/moss-lawns

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This week we travel to Herefordshire with Sue Kent to meet Layla Robinson at her incredible dried flower studio and Scott Thompson shows us around his immersive garden, Fern Bank in Wirksworth, Matlock. Astrid and Frankie Drummond give us a guided tour of their beautiful garden and triangular compost bin in Sheffield before Joe Swift takes us to the incredible Church Gardens in Harefield where Patrick and Kay McHugh show us the extensive work they've done to restore the walled gardens. Finally Leyla Kazim shows us around her 5m by 7m South West London garden equipped with numerous edibles as well as her "postage stamp meadow".

Some links mentioned:

Green Manure

https://www.rhs.org.uk/soil-composts-mulches/green-manures

Layla Robinson

https://www.laylarobinson.com/

https://www.91magazine.co.uk/meet-the-maker-layla-robinson/

Scott Thompson and Beccy Owen

https://ngs.org.uk/gardens/fern-bank-de4/

Patrick and Kay McHugh

https://ngs.org.uk/gardens/church-gardens-ub9/

https://www.churchgardens.co.uk/

Leyla Kazim

https://leylakazim.substack.com/

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Chris Miller from Grow Cardiff joins us for a Good Ol’ Chit-Chat this week! Chris was on Gardeners’ World earlier this year tackling his astro lawn and in this episode we find out a bit about his work with Grow Cardiff and the fantastic support the charity provides others to transform uninspiring urban areas into productive, nature-filled, buzzing hubs that serve their community. We also hear what Chris’ dream garden would look like, which involves a shed to beat all sheds🍺

Some mentions from Chris, links of which can be found here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/gardens/

• Horatio's Garden
• RHS Rosemoor
• Bute Park
• Dyffryn Gardens 
• Cardiff Salad Garden 
• Pipes (Taff Temptress)

Grow Cardiff

  A004_04221633_C234.mp4 Grow.mp4  - Emma Downes - filmmaker

https://www.facebook.com/share/eQygeXQsmQNPtiba/?mibextid=LQQJ4d

https://x.com/growcardiff?s=21&t=uTDhn57b-3CR2RP4oQkwRw

https://www.growcardiff.org/health-wellbeing/

Grow Well Cardiff 

https://x.com/growwellcardiff?s=21&t=uTDhn57b-3CR2RP4oQkwRw

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Arit and Adam are at East Ruston Old Vicarage in Norfolk where we meet the inspiring owners Alan Gray and Graham Robeson. Rekha gives us an update on her successes and failures in her veggie garden in the Peak District and we visit the incredible Fifty Shades of Green garden owned by Annemarie and Andrew Swift in Walsall. Finally Carol gives us another masterclass on propagation, this time showing us the wizardry of leaf cuttings.

Some links from the episode:

East Ruston Old Vicarage

https://eastrustonoldvicarage.co.uk/

Perennial

https://perennial.org.uk/

Rekha Mistry

https://www.instagram.com/rekha.garden.kitchen/

Fifty Shades of Green

https://ngs.org.uk/gardens/fifty-shades-of-green-ws4/

Carol Klein

https://www.instagram.com/the_carol_klein/

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Mary from Burrow Farm Gardens describes her dream garden this week, which is very similar to her wonderful gardens in Devon! We hear about her champion tree, her family tradition of primroses, her love of dogs and her childhood interest in gardening, especially pansies.

A link to Mary's place can be found here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/gardens/

More from Burrow Farm Gardens

https://www.instagram.com/burrow_farm_gardens/

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This week sees us jealous of Nick's immaculate new garden before we visit Martha Swales' inspiring urban plot in Lewisham. Dan Cartwright gives us a tour of the beautiful Arts and Crafts gardens at Winterbourne House and Garden in Birmingham and Frances takes us along with her to meet Josh Sparkes in his experimental acres at Birch Farm in Devon.

Here are some links from the episode:

Martha Swales

https://www.instagram.com/marfskitchengarden/

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/463153/give-it-a-grow-by-swales-martha/9780241710364

Winterbourne House and Gardens

https://www.winterbourne.org.uk/explore/botanical-garden/

Josh Sparkes

https://www.instagram.com/joshua_sparkes/

https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/article/joshua-sparkes-birch-farm

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Melanie Lewis from Aeonium Mellie took us for a fantastical tour through her dream garden on this episode of a Good Ol' Chit-Chat! We were immersed in a magical world of dingle dells, guard-swans and disappearing frog-bits. Unforgettable!

Below are some mentions from Mellie, links to which can be found here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/gardens

• Lullingstone Castle
• Debs Ednie
• John Massey
• National Botanical Garden of Wales

More from Mellie

https://www.instagram.com/aeonium_mellie/

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We learn a little about baby rhinos this week! We join Arit to chat with Tara Moss about her beautiful award winning garden in Earls Court, designed by Harry Holding, before meeting Kris Saunders-Stowe and his husband Deane in Ross-on-Wye. Dan Clarke gives us a tour of his productive allotment in Newcastle and then Rachel De Thame talks to Professor James Memmott and Associate Professor Heather Whitney to learn about plant science. Finally we go to Shropshire to see Liz Colebrook and Fiona Pidduck who tell us all about New Hope Daylilies inherited from Mark Zenick.

Here are some links mentioned:

Harry Holding

https://www.harryholding.co.uk

https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/gardening/gardeners-notebook-barbecue-sunshine-garden-design-b1148213.html

Kris Saunders-Stowe

https://everybodymoves.org.uk/meet-kris-0

https://jamiewareham.co.uk/portfolio/kris-the-power-of-support/

https://wheelygoodfitness.com

Deane Saunders-Stowe

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Deane-Saunders-Stowe/author/B00S51MDBA?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

Dan Clarke

https://www.instagram.com/geordiegrower/

New Hope Daylilies

https://www.newhopedaylilies.co.uk

Mark Zenick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jerYleJQgrs

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This week’s guest is Rob King from My Sheffield Garden. We have a Good Ol’ Chit-Chat about Rob’s garden at home, how he decides what gets a space in addition to the planting and also what his dream garden would look like. Rob mentions the garden he’s currently volunteering in so we’ve included a link below.

Rob mentions Whinfell Quarry Garden, a link to which can be found here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/gardens

More from Rob

https://www.instagram.com/mysheffieldgarden/

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