Could wild flowers become so important in Britain and Ireland that they get their own Glastonbury-style festival? You may laugh, but there’s already an orchid festival that’s in full swing right now at Kew Gardens, and in other European countries, there are actual, real-life wild flower festivals. Joshua Sparkes has been to the wild flower festival in Slovenia, and is determined to export that love of native flora back to Britain. He’s a gardener at Sissinghurst, and joins Isabel Hardman on the latest Wild Flower (Half) Hour podcast to talk flower festivals.
Also on this episode: the wonderful Zoe Devlin reads from her book, Blooming Marvellous: A Wild Flower Hunter’s Year, and Rebecca Wheeler introduces our first challenge for 2018, on rosettes. More information on that here.
Excitingly, this podcast is now so popular that it’s going from fortnightly to weekly for the wild flower season. If you’d like to feature on it or if you’re interested in sponsoring it to help us cover our costs, then please get in touch!You can listen to this podcast on iTunes, Acast, Stitcher, Spotify and all other good podcast platforms. Just let us know if it doesn’t turn up on yours and we’ll add our feed. Please also considering leaving a review of the show as it helps other people find it more easily which means that more people will learn about how amazing the native flowers of Britain and Ireland really are.
from #wildflowerhour http://www.wildflowerhour.co.uk/blog/2018/02/26/podcast-a-wild-flower-glastonbury/
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