Found Sound for August: Hazel Gardiner

As the Season Turns

Ffern

Arts

4.9 • 846 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In August, Alice visits floral designer, writer and broadcaster Hazel Gardiner in London - where Hazel creates a joyful floral arrangement from her garden. Hazel Gardiner Design produces boundary-breaking floral experiences, blending sustainability with storytelling. Their bold, nature-led installations honour the seasonal cycle of flowers and plants. This episode was produced by musician and sound artist Alice Boyd, featuring music by herself and Sam Lee. Thanks go to Hazel Gardiner and Ringo. 'Found Sounds' are back for 2025 with another twelve episodes, each released on the middle Friday of the month. This year, Alice is travelling across the UK to meet people inspired by heritage crafts, folklore and the landscape, creating a sonic scrapbook of their practice. 'As the Season Turns' is a podcast created by Ffern in collaboration with Lia Leendertz. Each episode, released on the first of the month, is a guide to what to look out for in the month ahead - from the sky above to the land below. Found Sounds are released on the middle Friday of the month. Ffern is an organic fragrance maker based in Somerset. You can learn more about Ffern's seasonal eau de parfum at ffern.co

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns.
0:12.2	I'm Lea Leyen-Durts and I'm delighted to introduce this Found Sound for August,
0:18.1	created by musician and sound artist Alice Boyd.
0:22.6	For this year's Found Sounds, Alice travels across the UK to meet people inspired by
0:28.3	heritage crafts, folklore, and the landscape, creating a sonic scrapbook of their practice.
0:36.2	This month, Alice visits floral designer, writer and broadcaster,
0:40.8	Hazel Gardner in her house and garden studio in London. Hazel's studio produces boundary-breaking
0:48.2	floral experiences, blending sustainability with storytelling. Their bold, nature-led installations honour the seasonal cycle of flowers and plants
0:58.9	and have been featured at the Chelsea Flower Show, Liberty, Soho House and more.
1:05.5	You may wish to pause the podcast here for a moment, while you find somewhere warm and quiet to close your eyes
1:12.4	sit back and settle down into this month's found sound
1:17.2	Isel could you introduce yourself and describe your work?
1:30.7	Sure. I am Hazel Gardner Design and I am a floor designer, gardener, writer, broadcaster, quite a lot of hats.
1:40.2	And we specifically are a design studio that is very much in tune with the seasons.
1:45.7	Sustainability and we create displays from small events to extraordinarily huge events such as
1:52.4	RHS Chelsea and everything in between. My work, it merges dried flowers, fresh, plants,
1:58.7	edibles and always with a huge importance on storytelling.
2:03.4	So not just what I see, but what your body feels and your mind feels are changing emotions.
2:08.8	That's what we like to do with that work.
2:10.6	And as listeners will be able to hear, we're also joined by a very special guest today.
2:14.9	Can you introduce our friend?
2:17.1	So the panting in the background is my
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