The Gardens, Weeds & Words podcast, Series 3 Episode 5

Susanna Grant’s mission seems to be to make gardening easy for people; particularly people who live in the city, where space is at a premium and buildings huddle together to crowd out the light. From behind an unassuming garden gate in Hackney, her courtyard store Linda glows, filled with the kind of lush, green growth that thrives in these conditions. We talk of shade and weeds, community gardens and cake, perennial window boxes and sending worms through the post.

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Day 268: meadow-rue

‘Airy’ is the word that springs to mind when thinking of meadow-rue in the garden…

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Day 234: tatting fern

The tatting fern is back. There are many splendid things about this particular plant, not least it’s botanical name…

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Day 200: Hydrangea 'Annabelle'

A day, if ever there were one, to make like a hydrangea and head for the shade…

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Day 130: Erythronium

The dog’s tooth violet isn’t a violet at all, but a member of the lily family, and closely related to the tulip…

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