S02 Episode 11: Gratitude, privilege, responsibility. With Ann-Marie Powell
Gardens, weeds and wordsShow 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
Back after a break for the last episode in the series
Dogs and gardening
Lockdown and #BlackLivesMatter – did these change how you felt about your garden?
Privilege in the gardening world
Telling the stories of plants
Reading 05:30 Extract from 'Science and Colonial Expansion. The role of the British Royal Botanical Gardens' by Lucile H. Brockway in American Ethnologist, Journal of the American Ethnological Society, Volume 6 Issue 3, 1979, read by Sui Searle. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/ae.1979.6.3.02a00030
The book of the same name, available here: https://amzn.to/2PbSC4z
Gardening should be political – more of this in series three.
Gratitude, privilege and responsibility – what that's meant to me in lockdown
Interview with the Ann Marie Powell 11:20
11:48 What's behind @myrealgarden?
15:22 Plants, People, Place
18:37 Living in a horticultural household, and how it effects domestic gardening
22:12 How Ann-Marie became a garden designer
23:16 Horticulture within the education system – being given the choice
25:18 Andrew talking absolute rubbish about "gardening with your ears"
27:10 Ann-Marie Powell Gardens – the vital importance of a great team
31:17 The effect of the Hampshire landscape on AMPG's design work
33:47 Is there anything the RHS needs to learn when it comes to reaching new people with shows like Chelsea?
38:56 Ann-Marie's gardens at RHS Wisley in Surrey
42:43 Pro-bono work for Greenfingers charity https://www.greenfingerscharity.org.uk/
46:03 Quickfire EITHER/OR questions!
Fatsia japonica https://www.shootgardening.co.uk/plant/fatsia-japonica Schefflera rhododendrifolia https://www.shootgardening.co.uk/plant/schefflera-rhododendrifolia Crûg Farm Nursery https://www.crug-farm.co.uk/
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Gratitude, privilege and responsibility vs Plants, People, Place. Pick your mantra!
Thank you to Ann-Marie for joining me on this episode. You can find Ann-Marie online here: AMPG website: https://www.ann-mariepowell.com/ Ann Marie's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ann_mariepowell/ The @myrealgarden instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/myrealgarden/
And also to Sui Searle for reading from the Lucile H. Brockway paper. You can find Sui on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/thetemperategardener/ and here https://www.instagram.com/decolonisethegarden/
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