Small but mighty, Rajul Shah shares how gardening builds resilience and how she became The Small Gardener.

Greening driveways, pathways into a gardening career and how gardening helped when she was Postpartum. In our post-lockdown chat, Rajul also shared what made her own childhood garden so special and how you can help your children enjoy the garden so they too, grow up to be nature lovers.

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How to create an *Entirely Edible Garden, even if you’re #NotaHorticulturist

notahorticulturist.com is science and gardening educator, Mama and singer Jessi Wong, based in South London. Jessi talks about feeding her family, how gardening boosts our mindfulness and how growing food and foraging got her through lockdown. As well as talking about food, we talked about fertilisers and how we might get more schools into gardening.

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A potted history of the Garden Room, Garden-Sharing in Britain and why we love house plants with Advolly Richmond.

How did garden-sharing start in Britain and who in history might be responsible for our obsession with houseplants? Garden, landscape and social historian and BBC Gardeners World presenter, Advolly Richmond gives some fascinating insight and top tips to recreate elements of her favourite garden styles from the Edwardian and Renaissance eras.

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A shower of gratitude from me to you.

Things I'm grateful for: We’re past the peak, we're at midpoint between spring and summer, you're still signing up and with me on the Garden-Sharing mission. Thank you all so much. I hope you're gifted by Flora, the goddess of spring and flowers, with visions of nature bursting back to life, amazing weather, peace and birdsong into your windows.

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Remembering Esiah Levy.

In the spirit of Garden-Sharing, I’d like to dedicate a post to my late friend, founder of Seeds Share; Esiah Levy who gently, kindly and compassionately took a stand for what he believed in; took practical actions and helped mobilise people, not just individual growers, but whole community groups to have sustainable healthier happier lives. 

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