Dreaming of long borders: the gardens of Hampshire, Yaoundé and Philadelphia

We journey to Yaoundé, where the oil palms drip with ferns and a balcony gardener waits for the lemon grass harvest, Pennsylvania, where plants lead an architect astray and Hampshire, where meadows, lawns, hedges and fruit trees spring from land that once grew chicken sheds.

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Episode links:

Tivoli Gardens: https://www.tivoli.dk/en/haven-og-forlystelser/skoenne-steder

Narcissus ‘W. P. Milner’: https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/76761/narcissus-w-p-milner-(1)/details

African plums, or Safou, Dacryodes edulis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacryodes_edulis

 The amazing black medic: https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/105551/medicago-lupulina/details

For copies of Ben’s book, The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens go here: https://linktr.ee/deargardener

The dear gardeners on Instagram:

Jonathan: https://www.instagram.com/jbykowski/

Karen: https://www.instagram.com/mrsnorris34/

Christoph: https://www.instagram.com/christophsgaertli/