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The Sodshow, Garden Podcast - Sod Show Peter Donegan, Sodshow.com
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Garden podcast. Hosted by garden speaker and award winning landscape garden designer Peter Donegan. Weekly, since 2011.
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John O'Connor, Sculptor
With much thanks to CED Natural Stone, we bring you the last in the series on the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019 episodes and today Peter Donegan chats with the great British artist and sculptor John O'Connor.
From day dreams and counting snowflakes, to how John left landscaping, his first attempt at sculpting and art school to becoming one of the most talented sculptors that I have ever had the honour to sit and chat with.
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Con Traas 2019, Part 2, The Apple Farm Tipperary
Peter Donegan returns to chats with Con Traas' Apple Farm in Tipperary. It is an apple farm. But it's also a lot more than just an apple farm.
It's worth noting maybe that Peter was on holidays working whist camping, again; surrounded by all that the fruit farm has to offer. The old buddies chat practices that were then acceptable, what is done now, changes in presentation over the eons and just what the supermarket will want to see and what is logic in growing and being responsible.
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Show Links:
The Apple Farm Website: www.theapplefarm.com
Con Traas on Twitter: @theapplefarmer
The Apple Farm on Facebook: The Apple Farm
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Jilayne Rickards, RHS Chelsea, 2019
With thanks to CED Natural Stone, on this episode Peter Donegan speaks with Jilayne Rickards, designer of the CAMFED Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019.
To quote CED Stone:
The CAMFED garden was just one of the gardens that we were lucky enough to work on. The charity is fantastic and works to help women obtain the education they need in order to prosper. Thank you so much to CAMFED, Jilayne Rickards and Cormac from Conway Landscapes for letting us join in on this fantastic garden!
Garden Details: The CAMFED Garden: Giving Girls in Africa A Space To Grow
Designer: Jilayne Rickards
Contractor: Conway Landscapes
Materials: Red Sandstone Rockery & Sandstone Boulders
Awards: Gold Medal
Find out more about CAMFED and their amazing work here: https://camfed.org/
Visit our website: https://cedstone.co.uk/
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Con Traas 2019, The Apple Farm Tipperary, Part 1
Peter Donegan returns to chats with Con Traas' Apple Farm in Tipperary. It is an apple farm. But it's also a lot more than just an apple farm.
It's worth noting maybe that Peter was on holidays working whist camping, again; surrounded by all that the fruit farm has to offer. The old buddies chat practices that were then acceptable, what is done now, changes in presentation over the eons and just what the supermarket will want to see and what is logic in growing and being responsible.
Subscribe to The Sodshow in iTunes, all good podcast stores and via www.sodshow.com
Show Links:
The Apple Farm Website: www.theapplefarm.com
Con Traas on Twitter: @theapplefarmer
The Apple Farm on Facebook: The Apple Farm
Further information:
Twitter: @sodshow
facebook: The Sodshow
instagram: sodshow -
Derreen Gardens, West Cork Garden Trail
Jamie Bigham is the person in charge of Dereen Gardens based in Kenmare and speaks with Peter Donegan.
Derreen Garden covers more than 60 acres of garden and has over 12 km of paths which wind through mature and varied woodland full of rare and exotic plants. The garden is also a haven for wildlife and a habitat for Sika deer, Irish hares and red squirrel. Seals can often be seen from the shore and there have been sightings of otters and Kerry’s rarest mammal, the pine marten. By the shore there is an abundance of bird life, including cormorants, oyster catchers, gulls, great northern divers, guillemots, and sea eagles.
Website: www.derreengarden.com
West Cork Garden Trail: www.westcorkgardentrail.com
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Garden Podcast: Helen Boem, RHS, Floral Marquee Manager
With thanks to CED Natural Stone, on this episode Peter Donegan speaks with Helen Boem, Floral Marquee Manager for The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).
From volunteering for RHS shows to her actual job now, her career before as a garden designer and meeting her Mammy at RHS Chelsea to just how much it takes to fill a floral marquee at Chelsea Flower Show, the work that goes in behind the scenes for the growers and nurseries and of course everything else that manages to run through Peters brain.
The Sodshow is available every week in iTunes, spotify and all good podcast stores. Spotify Tim Howell. Spotify !
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A wonderfully refreshing look at the world of gardening. A must for any plant lover!
You need Peter in your life :)
Peter Donegan hosts this podcast nominally about gardens, gardening, garden design, and garden shows. For those who in passing might think that that was all well and good but it isn't for them don't understand what's going on. Peter, in his delightful Irish way, dedicates a lot of well spent time getting to know the people involved, their backstories, and what makes them and their gardens wonderful. About gardens? Certainly. But you're missing the point if you think that that's all it is. It's an invitation to listen a bit to friends having a conversation sometimes over coffee in his kitchen. It's an invitation to another world where the BS of everyday life seems less significant at least for a little while. Honestly, right now, what more could you want.
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How can you not love that accent? It's an interesting listen and the show has opened my eyes about what goes on at show gardens and the different sides of gardening. My list of gardens I'd love to visit has grown!!!