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Our Plant Stories

Our Plant Stories - digging into the stories that plants tell us about people and places. This is a podcast that shares personal stories about plants. Plants often root us, perhaps to a garden, a country, or maybe to a person who loved them and taught us to love them too. By sharing these stories, we grow our plant knowledge through the experience, passions and sometimes quite remarkable knowledge of other plant growers and we will always learn how to grow the plant. It"s presented by Sally

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All Episodes

04:13

Trailer for series 3 of Our Plant Stories

Our Plant Stories ·

2025/01/12

Season 3 of Our Plant Stories will be starting on the 4th February 2025. These plant stories will once again take us all over the world. We'll be meeting gardeners, botanists and historians and along the way of course we will all learn how to grow the plants.If you have a story that you would like me to follow up in this new series you can email me - sally@ourplantstories.comTo find out about the plants featured in all the episodes just go to the websiteOur Plant Stories website where you can also

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32:31

The Camden Highline

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/11/26

You may well have heard about the New York High Line but did you know that there are plans afoot for a Highline in London? It has got the same design team as the NY one and Piet Oudolf will be doing the planting but before we get to the plants - there's a 'bit of treacle' to wade through.Take this audio tour so you can start to become familiar with this incredibly exciting venture and hear about seeing 'trains in the wild'! I hope in the podcast we will follow its progress. There's plenty of

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22:38

A walk on the Castlefield Viaduct

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/11/12

Take an audio walk through a park in the sky above Manchester. We’ll walk a route that spans 130 years of history; where once there were trains now there are plants and pedestrians. We perhaps associate the National Trust with stately homes, grand gardens and stretches of countryside but this episode may make you think again.And how does the Castlefield viaduct link with an iconic structure in a famous British seaside town? Kate Picker from the National Trust is our guide.Our Plant Stories is

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19:37

Silent Space - an Offshoot episode

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/10/01

Picture yourself in a garden. Do you get your phone out to take photos of the plants and send them to friends and family? Maybe a swift selfie! Perhaps like me you google the plants - wanting to identify them.Now picture a bench in the same garden but this time you and anyone else around you are just sitting, not a phone in sight. You're in the equivalent of the 'quiet carriage on the train' - and as you sit, you start to experience the garden in a different way.Welcome to Silent Space the

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27:31

Strawberry Hill Flower Festival - an Offshoot episode

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/09/13

Some of us (I think I mean me!) buy flowers, rummage for a vase, search for the scissors and then maybe tweak them a little bit before standing back to admire our handiwork. This is lovely but it is not art.In this podcast episode we travel to Strawberry Hill flower festival where floral artists take British grown flowers to a whole new level and they do create art. Follow up and down the stairs of this small gothic mansion, as it is transformed for one weekend into a feast of flowers. The theme

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34:14

Philippa's Dahlias

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/09/03

Have you fallen in love with dahlias this year? Perhaps you have loved them for many years. But have you ever thought of harvesting the seed from your favourite blooms and creating your own unique flowers? Listen to hear how this is exactly what Philippa Stewart has been doing for the past few years.We also learn about the relationship between the grower and the floral designer as Philippa in conversation with Leigh Chappell, describes how they work together to produce stunning installations

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32:41

Standing on the shoulders of Victorian gardeners

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/08/06

Hill Close was a pasture until 1845 when its owner decided to divide it up into gardens. Individual plots where Victorians could rent a space to tend their plants, build a summer house, relax with their family. These were detached gardens for people who had no outdoor space where they lived but a little bit of money to rent one nearby. Once there were many such gardens in the UK. Where did they go? Why did Hill Close survive? And who were the people who gardened here?Our Plant Stories is

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23:17

The Cactus Hunters Offshoot

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/07/23

Cacti are among the world's most threatened species. Jared Margulies research led him to the extraordinary illegal trade in these plants. Hear him talk about his work and his book The Cactus Hunters. Who are stealing the cacti and where are they taking them?You can click the Buy Me A Coffee link here or on the website to buy a virtual coffee and join the crew and get a shout out. Everyone shares their stories for free and I make it because I love it but there are costs like the hosting platform

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31:14

Lindy's Disocactus x hybridus

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/07/09

A Disocactus x hybridus or forest cactus but in Lindy's family this particular plant is known as Sally's Cactus! It is also sometimes known by a common name: orchid cactus. In finding out about Sally who gave the original cutting we also learn how to get these cacti to bloom, what "soil' you should use to pot them up and where you should put them. This is all thanks to Sarah Gerrard Jones who is also known as The Plant Rescuer, who says: “I just think there is something so... beautiful about

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28:15

Bonus Episode: The Rebel Botanists

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/07/02

How's your knowledge of Latin plant names? Meet Elizabeth Richmond she loves Latin plant names and she chalks them around the plants she finds growing between pavement cracks or along kerbsides. She does also chalk the common name too!Why does she do it? And how an earth did she get started?Our Plant Stories is presented and produced by Sally FlatmanThe music is Fade to Black by Howard LevyCan you grow this podcast?! Well we can grow it together by doing a few things. Number one is by

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28:30

A GCSE in Natural History - Offshoot

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/06/18

"Every child needs someone to introduce them to nature" - Rachel Carson author of Silent SpringIn this episode we hear how one woman came up with the idea for a GCSE in Natural History - a way for children to be introduced to nature. So where did the idea come from, what would an exam look like, and how far has she got? She had the idea in 2011.In this episode we learn what it takes to introduce a new exam and the reasons that despite many setbacks, Mary Colwell is not giving up, indeed she is

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33:06

Janet's Saxifrage London Pride

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/06/04

Why is a tiny plant from Janet Hickenbottom's childhood so important? And what was the special thing that her mum Margaret shared with Janet and her brother that has stayed with her for all her life?Lee Connelly is also a bit obsessed by this thing and he's on a mission to make sure we don't miss out on it....and even if we weren't given it as children, like Janet was, he promises we can still get it.And learn to grow a plant that you can literally fit anywhere - it only requires the tiniest of

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25:12

Offshoot A history of allotments

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/05/21

When we think of 'allotment history' we perhaps have images from the two world wars with the population being urged to cultivate every spare bit of land from parks to bomb craters. But to really understand our relationship with these spaces we need to go back much further in time. Lally Snow has written a book called My Family and Other Seedlings and in this episode she tells us how she has woven this history into her own experiences of growing food on an allotment with the aid of 3 under 5 year

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31:39

Kathy's Radishes

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/05/07

Kathy Slack brings us the first plant story to feature a vegetable, it is a root vegetable; a radish. They may be tiny but as you will hear in this plant story the impact of growing radish seeds was rather enormous. Kathy has a passion for vegetables so we not only discuss her journey growing them but other questions too - if you were to come back as a vegetable what would it be? Spoiler alert she seems to favour being a broad bean not a radish!Hear her in conversation with Lally Snow, who we

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23:02

Bonus Dahlia episode

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/04/26

Philippa Steward of Justdahlias admits that her passion for dahlias has become somewhat of an obsession! So who better than Philippa to share with us that enthusiasm and love of this beautiful flower in its many shapes and colours. Philippa has a plant story for later in this series but I couldn't resist talking to her about dahlias now so we could all share her excitement and plant some for this summer.In this bonus episode we learn about planting tubers, she shares how to select your varieties

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27:07

Judith's Silver Birch tree

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/04/09

Judith Kleinman had a Silver Birch tree outside her bedroom window when she was growing up. She now has three beautiful Silver Birch trees outside her back door in her small courtyard garden. But to understand why these trees are her plant story you need to go back to her first student summer and a terrible traffic accident that left her in a spinal injuries unit. She tells her story and returns to the hospital to see a garden that has been built by the charity Horatio's Garden and meet the

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20:26

Monkey Puzzle Bonus

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/04/02

A short bonus episode in which David Gedye pieces together the story of how the Monkey Puzzle tree made its way to the UK and how it became so popular with gardeners in the country.David has been researching this tree and its links to his family for the past 68 years. He wrote a book about it, sadly sold out but luckily for us he shares his knowledge here.Presented and Produced: Sally FlatmanFade to Black by Howard Lake

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31:38

Monkey Puzzle Offshoot

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/03/26

David Gedye's mum told him a plant story when he was just 10 years old. It involved a very famous Monkey Puzzle tree and his great great grandfather, a head gardener. That story has led him on a lifetime trail, 68 years so far, to learn more about head gardener Philip Frost and to find out about that tree. Could the story be true - did his great great grandfather carry Monkey Puzzle seed in a tin in his waistcoat pocket and plant the famous Dropmore Monkey Puzzle tree?He shares his story here.

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33:32

Andrea's Monkey Puzzle tree

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/03/12

When Andrea bought a new house there was a Monkey Puzzle tree in the front garden. She wasn't keen, it was marked down to go but 12 years later it is still there. Find out why in this Monkey Puzzle Plant Story.These trees first came to the UK in 1795 but they didn't really start to become popular till the 1850s. Queen Victoria saw the tree and wanted one for Prince Albert.We have a Chilean botanist in the podcast to help us understand the tree, learn how to grow it and unravel that story about

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26:47

Corokia Offshoot

Our Plant Stories ·

2024/02/23

Who were the celebrity gardeners of the 1850's and why were they important to a fledgling charity?The charity still exists today, Mona Abboud (Ep 3 Mona's Corokia) has decided to leave her garden to it - it's called Perennial. It's dedicated to looking after people working in horticulture and their families, at any stage of life.The charity's roots go back almost 200 years and garden historian, Francesca Murray has, for her Phd, spent many hours in its archive. She shares a fascinating story for

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