Show Notes
A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.
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Garden soundtrack Birdsong, growing by the day
One more week of winter
Meteorological and astronomical calendars
Somewhere on the threshold between two seasons
#thatwinterspringthing hashtag https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/thatwinterspringthing/
Great Comp Garden Comp Lane Platt, Nr Sevenoaks Kent TN15 8QS https://greatcompgarden.co.uk/
Micro book review
'Galanthus' from Bulb, by Anna Pavord https://amzn.to/2GBvElb
Published by Mitchell Beazley 2009
Interview with Lia Leendertz
07:06 Plant memories
11:04 What Lia's garden says about her
16:43 Lia's cookbook Petal, Leaf, Seed – taking flavours from the garden
17:44 How the Almanac came about
22:15 The benefits of living in tune with the seasons
27:16 What if the stories run out?
30:42 Hope for the future
Stephen Blackmore https://twitter.com/SteveBlackm0re, British botanist, former Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and chair of Botanic Gardens Conservation International http://www.bgci.org/
33:48 Lia's favourite season
36:53 The Instagram hashtag #myalmanacmoment: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/myalmanacmoment/
Seasonal signs – are the seasons merging?
Help The Woodland Trust track the effects of weather and climate change with Nature's Calendar https://naturescalendar.woodlandtrust.org.uk/
You can find Lia on on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lialeendertz and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lia_leendertz/
The Almanac, a seasonal guide to 2019 is available at your local indy book stores, or you can buy it from Amazon here https://amzn.to/2VcP82D
With thanks to Lia for being my guest this episode, and to Charles Budd for his wonderful reading. You can find Charlie here: Twitter https://twitter.com/charliebudd Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thetallphotographer/
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