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
The joys of October in the garden.
Reading from A breath from elsewhere, by Mirabel Osler 4:28 Read by Jemma Cooper
A breath from elsewhere, by Mirabel Osler. Bloomsbury, 1997. https://amzn.to/3Stlvr9
06:52 Gardening in the shade
08:10 Interview with Susanna Grant
08:20 First encounters
Wild about Weeds, by Jack Wallington https://amzn.to/3FbVU31
09:17 Sharing weeds (and weeds)
10:48 How the name – and the business – 'Linda' came about
12:35 A Jack of All Trades – Susanna's other work
16:11 A Fair Weather Shop
19:26 Susanna's childhood memories of plants and the natural world
Flower Fairy books, by Cicely Mary Barker https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09PGM2YBD?binding=hardcover&searchxofy=true&ref_=dbs_s_bs_series_rwt_thcv&qid=1666786266&sr=1-19
Observer Book of Wild Flowers https://amzn.to/3SxxWCo
21:26 Arnold Circus and the Boundary Estate – the community garden
Radicle, edited by Sui Searle aka @decolonisethegarden https://radicle.substack.com
Volunteering: a problem and an opportunity? by Joanna Pidcock https://radicle.substack.com/p/volunteering-a-problem-and-an-opportunity
29:49 From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, by Susanna Grant and Rowan Spray, published by Rough Trade Books and The Garden Museum https://amzn.to/3Dpdrn4
35:31 Practicalities of window box gardening with perennials
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Thank you to Susanna Grant for giving up her time to talk to me about her creative nature-inspired practice.
Susanna's book Shade is published by Bloom, 2022, and is available here https://amzn.to/3F6eGsu
The Rough Trade/Garden Museum pamphlet by Susanna, with photography by Rowan Spray is From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, and is available here https://amzn.to/3Dpdrn4
Pamphlets in the same series, such as Horticultural Appropriation by Claire Ratinon and Sam Ayre, are also available here https://roughtradebooks.com/collections/editions
You can find Susanna on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/hellotherelinda Or on her website: https://www.hellotherelinda.com/
My own book, To Stand and Stare; how to garden by doing next to nothing, will be published by DK Life on Feb 2, 2023, and is available to preorder here https://geni.us/Qs2d
I'm so grateful to Jemma Cooper for lending us her lovely tones for the reading from Mirabel Osler's A breath from elsewhere. You can find Jem on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/thecountrynurse_
I'm ever appreciative of all my listeners for your continued support and reviews, I really do appreciate them. You can support the podcast by buying its producer a virtual cup of coffee for three quid, at https://ko-fi.com/andrewtimothyOB. Proceeds will go towards equipment, software and the monthly podcast hosting fees.
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