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 Flatman, a former BBC Radio producer.
If you have a plant story you would like to share, then...
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...
Published 11/12/24
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...
Published 10/01/24