What is up everyone? We're back again on the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today again we're

joined by Tom Piper who is the Award Award Ring Director of Five Seasons, the

documentary that is out, and it's a profile of of We've talked very in depth about Pete himself, the making of the film, some fun stories from the film, and now we're going to do a bit of a transition.

And I know a lot of you out there, myself included, like, we like to capture our gardens throughout the season

whether that be filming little harvest clips or photographing plants as they

grow I don't know about you guys but I know for myself

aesthetics and capturing these things is really not my strong suit and so Tom I thought

maybe we could talk a little bit kind of a fun episode about how

you did it and then how we might adapt some of your professional techniques and your professional experience down to our level as a home

gardener. Sure.

I mean I can say that so in that first meeting that I had with Pete when we first met but also first started talking about the possibility of doing

something on, especially his garden in Homolo.

And it really then became, I mean he took out his iPad and he just started showing me photographs of the garden and it was, you know, I mean literally we got into the hundreds of photographs.

I mean, he was just cycling through them.

And at first I was like, wow, you know,

you really came prepared for this.

But then, and as you can see in the film, it, he, like that's what he does.

I mean, he is constantly photographing.

And he has the advantage of obviously waking up in the morning and being able to look out and if the garden looks good it's his garden he can just walk out there and take pictures but but even when we would travel to all these places or when I would go to visit with him, go to visit his other gardens,

like if it's the Highland in New York or the Lurie Garden in Chicago.

I mean, he has a camera at the ready.

I mean, now it's as much his phone as it is a camera but and so it's you know I mean

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