Not Just a Garden

By: Sweetpea and Bear
  • Summary

  • Welcome to Not Just a Garden!


    A name that came about after we laboriously tackled a weed-infested, overgrown, black-run-steep patch of field into something vaguely resembling a garden. Literal blood, sweat and tears were spent in the process but once the beds were built, the plants began to grow and the wildlife took over, we agreed it was not just a garden, but something so much more; a shared achievement, a bonding experience, an escape from screens, a hideaway for tranquil moments, a safe space to sit and put the mad and confusing world to rights.


    Our continued shared love of gardening has had us avidly watching Gardeners’ World each week, taking notes here, animatedly discussing there, which has in turn lead us to giving a Sweetpea & Bear style recap on our podcast! Just a mother and daughter chewing the fat over Nick, Frances and Adam’s big garden moves, enjoying Monty and Toby’s poetic presenting, learning intriguing garden history from Advolly and hanging off Carol’s every propagating word.


    The programme has also brought into our living rooms each week a novice, professional, serious, hilarious, quirky, eccentric, inspiring world of guests, all of whom we want to know so much more about. So our Good Ol' Chit-Chats series was born; each episode we chat with a previous guest on Gardeners’ World and find out more about what would make their dream garden.


    So grab a cup of tea and flask of coffee, a glass of wine, a whisky, a Pimms, an Apple and Pear juice or anything in between, and join us for a Good Ol’ Chit-Chat about Not Just a Garden!


    Sweetpea & Bear


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Episodes
  • Gardeners' World 2024 Winter Special Recap: Ep 1
    Nov 21 2024

    The first of the Gardeners' World 2024 Winter Specials! This week we join the wonderful Carol Klein at Forest Lodge Gardens in Somerset before heading over to Oswestry in Shropshire to enjoy an apple tree masterclass with Tom Adams, The Apple Man. Nick Bailey takes us to Bates Green Garden in Sussex and their Arlington Bluebell Walk, where we meet Emma Reece, head gardener. Ex-military man, Martin Jordan shows us his impressive Birdhouse Gourds on his allotment in Chepstow before we meet Emma Rabbitt, Annie Healy and Lorna Babb on their Dads Lane Allotments in Birmingham. Finally Adam Frost takes us to Borde Hill Gardens where we meet the garden's Head of Horticulture Harry Baldwin and learn a little about Plantsman Colonel Stevenson Clarke and his successors Andrewjohn & Eleni Stephenson Clarke and now Jay Goddard and Harry Stephenson Clarkel.


    Some links:


    Carol Klein's pink coat!

    Didriksons Nancy Parka Jacket Fuchsia https://www.magrigg.co.uk/didriksons-nancy-parka-jacket-fuchsia.html.html


    Forest Lodge Gardens

    https://forestlodgegardens.co.uk


    Tom Adams

    https://tomtheappleman.co.uk/


    Bates Green Garden

    https://batesgreengarden.co.uk


    Arlington Bluebell Walk

    https://www.bluebellwalk.co.uk


    Martin Jordan

    https://www.instagram.com/hanley_plotter_allotment/

    Martin's book

    https://www.blurb.co.uk/books/882897-nahanni-river-trip-2009


    Dads Lane Allotments in Birmingham

    https://thebirminghamallotmentproject.co.uk/case-studies


    Borde Hill

    https://bordehill.co.uk/


    More Not Just a Garden

    https://notjustagarden.co.uk/





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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Ep12: A Good Ol' Chit-Chat With... Alex
    Nov 19 2024

    Episode 12 of Good Ol’ Chit-Chats is out now! This week we chat with Alex from Mitchell Flower Farm and travel from Kent to Chile and back again via Californian poppies that aren’t really Californian poppies, zombie eye infections and 1970s swing-seats.


    Some mentions from Alex, links to which can be found here: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/gardens/

    • Garden designer, James Alexander Sinclaire
    • Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden
    • Breedon Golden Amber Gravel
    • Cochoa near Vina del Mar


    More Not Just a Garden

    Website: https://notjustagarden.co.uk/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notjusta_garden/


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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Gardeners' World 2024 Recap: Ep 32
    Nov 14 2024

    The last of Gardeners' World 2024, boo. But we will be back to recap the winter specials starting next week, yay! First up, Arit Anderson takes us to Marchants Hardy Plants in East Sussex to chat with Henry Macaulay, their head gardener. We then meet Hafsah Hafeji at Aisgill Community Hub in Earls Court and see the fantastic work she does with her team of volunteers, including Shirley, Elaine, Leroy Douglas and Floyd. We join Sue Kent to meet Caroline Crocker at her place in Plymouth where she's transformed the topography of her garden and the planting in just one year. We see the incredible transformation of a disused polytunnel at St Andrews Healthcare in Birmingham and Marcin Ruta and Claire Page from Moss Clerks in Hawick lead us into the wonderful world of mosses.


    Some links:


    Alnwick Poison Plant Garden

    https://www.alnwickgarden.com/the-garden/poison-garden/


    Watering Cans

    https://www.charlies.co.uk/smart-garden-9l-watering-can-sage-green/


    Marchants Hardy Plants

    https://www.gardensillustrated.com/gardens/gardens-to-visit/marchants-nursery-profile

    https://www.marchantshardyplants.co.uk/


    Hafsah Hafeji

    https://www.instagram.com/hafsahhafeji/


    Caroline Crocker

    https://www.instagram.com/duckgardenplantsandposies/


    St Andrews Healthcare

    https://www.stah.org/


    Moss Clerks

    https://mossclerks.co.uk/collections/moss-lawns


    More Not Just a Garden

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    1 hr and 2 mins

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