S03 Episode 5: Where the sun don't shine. With Susanna Grant - a podcast by Andrew OBrien: gardener, blogger, podcaster

 

 

 

 

The joys of October in the garden.

 

 

Read by Jemma Cooper

 

A breath from elsewhere, by Mirabel Osler. Bloomsbury, 1997.

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06:52 Gardening in the shade

 

 

 

 

08:20 First encounters

 

Wild about Weeds, by Jack Wallington

 

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

 

Observer Book of Wild Flowers

 

21:26 Arnold Circus and the Boundary Estate – the community garden

 

Radicle, edited by Sui Searle aka @decolonisethegarden

 

Volunteering: a problem and an opportunity? by Joanna Pidcock

 

29:49 From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, by Susanna Grant and Rowan Spray, published by Rough Trade Books and The Garden Museum

 

35:31 Practicalities of window box gardening with perennials

 

 

 

 

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

 

The Rough Trade/Garden Museum pamphlet by Susanna, with photography by Rowan Spray is From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, and is available here

 

Pamphlets in the same series, such as Horticultural Appropriation by Claire Ratinon and Sam Ayre, are also available here

 

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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