S02 Episode 1: Nature all around. With Caro Langton
A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.
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Garden soundtrack
Autumn is here
Nature all around us
Reading 03:40
To Autumn by John Keats
Read by Rose White, Richard Chivers and Rachel Coldbreath.
05:55 Nature Unnoticed
07:28 The pot of basil
Interview with Caro Langton 08:46
09:25 House of Plants
10:09 Where did the journey into plant obsession begin for Caro?
13:41 What’s going on in the plant:person equation?
The Moth Snowstorm: nature and joy by Michael McCarthy
17:23 Plant tribes and communities
The Houseplant Festival at the London Garden Museum, 21 September 2019
21:04 Plant installations
23:42 What makes a garden?
26:15 A deep connection with plants in a short space of time.
31:34 What’s next in the RoCo story?
Huge thanks to Caro for making time to talk to me about her work and her life with plants. You can find out more about Caro and the work she does with Rose Ray as RoCo here:
House of Plants: living with succulents, air plants and cacti
by Rose Ray and Caro Langton, published by Frances Lincoln 2016
Root, Nurture, Grow: the essential guide to propagating and sharing houseplants
by Caro Langton and Rose Ray, published by Quadrille 2018
You can read my review of Root, Nurture, Grow here
The effect of plants in the workplace on productivity…
Nieuwenhuis, M., Knight, C., Postmes, T., & Haslam, S. A. (2014). The relative benefits of green versus lean office space: Three field experiments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20(3), 199-214.
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