The Garden Log

Abutilon, Abutilon!

September 24, 2026·32 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Celebrating the beauty and strangeness of plants.This week we lope into the half-shade with graceful Magnolia kobus, elegant Abutilon 'Patrick Synge' and the monstrous Hydrangea aspera 'Bellevue', before bursting into the light with golden Acacia pravissima (the sawtooth wattle), duskyVitis vinifera 'Incana', and the tiny-leaved Myrtus communis subsp. tarentina.Also featuring one of the finest accounts of plant hunting The Mountains of the Moon and a recommendation of what to read in gardening this this week.https://www.thegardencollective.uk/ben-dark/https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/463428/green-kingdom-by-dark-ben/9781847928337

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