Margaret Roach: Garden Writing, Wildlife, and American Gardening Debates
Rebecca McMackin is one of the leading, and most articulate US voices for biodiversity in the garden.
Noel talks to Neil Diboll whose Prairie Nursery has been selling seed and plants for 50 years, and Hilary Cox, his collaborator on a uniquely comprehensive book on prairie-making.
Perennial and native plant innovator, youth worker, all-round hort-hero from the Midwest talks about his life with plants, places and people.
Julie Moir Messervy is a New England based landscape architect who has been a lifelong innovator in her profession.
This week we venture to rural Ontario to meet Ben O'Brien and find out about his garden designs and planting philosophy.
Nick talks about a book collaboration that takes us across the US to discover 20 gardens whose creators are re-inventing the American garden.
Ross Bayton is Director of Heronswood, a garden famous as having had an incredible burst of fame and energy back in the 1990s-early 2000s
Richard Hayden is Horticultureal Director of the New York High Line.
Marya Padour is head gardener at a remarkable garden in Chicago, created by the late Posy Krehbiel. A wonderful example of 'high horticulture' with exuberant summer planting combining perennials and annuals. Noel is joined by top garden photographer Andrea Jones whose pictures we see.
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A wonderfully inspiring talk by a pioneer in using cerrado (savannah) plants in gardens and landscapes.
Steve Castorani is President of Pennsylvania-based North Creek Nurseries.
Sean Hogan is one of the most knowledgeable plantspeople of the American west coast.
Meredith Simpson is a longtime perennial gardener with particular interest in modern planting design and environmental stewardship.
Tom Brown is Head Gardener at West Dean in Sussex.
Jennifer Jewell is the creator, writer and host of Cultivating Place.
Kelly Norris is a writer, designer and artist who is also former director of horticulture and education.
Amalia Robredo has been a leading advocate and promotor of naturalistic planting in Argentina and Uruguay.
James tells about the making of the garden in the New Jersey woods which has featured in his long running blog
Molly Hendry now works for the Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens in Alabama
Innisfree is a garden which is something of a legend in the US.
"I’m a writer by profession and a planting designer by passion" says Tony, creator of blog The New Perennialist.
Freelance gardener and former Vanity Fair graphics editor, Julie Weiss.
PHS is one of the world's oldest horticultural societies and renowned globally
Benjamin Vogt is a Nebraska-based designer of prairie gardens and writer.
Bernard Trainor is one of the leading garden and designers in California.
Abra Lee is a horticulturalist who is writing a book for Timber Press on the hidden history of African-American gardening.
Paul Opello is Head Gardener at Hagley, the first garden made by the Du Pont family.
Marcus de la Fleur is a landscape architect in Chicago who is passionate about rainwater management.
Hanna Packer designs gardens in and around New York.
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is one of the world's oldest such bodies
Chanticleer, just outside Philadelphia, is one of the finest, if not the finest, public gardens in North America
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