Where would you go to see great landscape architecture, and is there any difference between that and a good garden? James thinks there is, and his definition is not going to win him friends.
James Alexander-Sinclair and Joe Swift are back on mailbag duty. Hannah in Dorset is starting a Masters in Landscape Architecture and wants to know where to go and look. Corinne in Dublin asks which single gardening problem they would magically abolish forever. Sarah in Manchester wants to know whether garden magazines are still worth buying, or whether we are all just addicted. And Bruce and Felicity Summers need a golden tree for their golden wedding, after the silver birch they were given for their silver one gave up in the drought.
Also in this one: five unbroken minutes on the cornet, an etymology lesson nobody asked for, three wishes from a genie who lives in a brass instrument, a full costing of the James and Joe house band, and Joe's appearance on the cover of Sea Angler, which he is thinking of turning into wallpaper.
James's phone dies with one question to go. Joe carries on regardless.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 The two rules
01:39 James invents a theme tune
04:18 Should James learn the cornet?
05:03 Where the word Cornetto comes from
07:55 Three wishes from a genie
09:48 Where to see great landscape architecture
10:55 King's Cross and Coal Drops Yard
12:30 Garden designer or landscape architect?
16:52 Why the High Line works
19:19 One gardening problem solved forever
24:53 Gardening on TV is always wrong
26:13 Are garden magazines worth buying?
33:06 Getting a job from a magazine photo
36:51 A golden tree for a golden anniversary
38:45 James's phone gives up
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ABOUT OUR HOSTS
James Alexander-Sinclair is a garden designer, writer and broadcaster. He is an RHS Vice-President and was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal for outstanding contribution to horticulture in 2022.
Joe Swift is a familiar face on television as a presenter of BBC TV's Gardeners' World and other gardening programmes. He is a garden designer, broadcaster, writer and design director of Modular.
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