• [Interview] The Thousand Year Old Garden: Inside the Secret Garden at Lambeth Palace with Nick Stewart Smith

  • Jun 15 2023
  • Length: 43 mins
  • Podcast

[Interview] The Thousand Year Old Garden: Inside the Secret Garden at Lambeth Palace with Nick Stewart Smith

  • Summary

  • Nick Stewart Smith spent seven years as Head Gardener at Lambeth Palace. Here he tells Ben Dark about his hidden life as a link in thousand-year horticultural chain, about his unique philosophy of place-making and about how to work in dialogue with a garden.

    Nick's book: https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/the-thousand-year-old-garden/9781803993041/

    Wild Times in a London Park by Nick Stewart Smith: https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/wild-times-in-a-london-park/

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    Episode Breakdown:

    [00:00:03] Podcast intro: introducing Nick Stewart Smith, author of "The Thousand Year Old Garden"

    [00:04:07] The personal nature of the book.

    [00:06:23] Gardeners and garden features as links in a very long chain.

    [00:09:38] Creating a dialogue with the garden.

    [00:13:26] Life at Overbecks, the eccentric National Trust garden of rock face and banana.

    [00:16:07] Exploring the book’s focus on the forgotten gardeners of Lambeth Palace

    [00:21:50] The Glades, Nick’s signature effect with colourful perennials and nomadic annuals.

    [00:27:56] Gardening, finding balance, small scale focus.

    [00:29:33] Awareness of nature crisis, positive gardening, adaptation.

    [00:32:36] Tolstoy, Levin and the transcendental power of scything.

    [00:35:57] Van Gogh & Dürer - painters as inspiration.

    [00:40:51] Farewell and thanks to guest, Nick.


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