Growing Greener - Great Dixter: A Sustainability Success Story, with Fergus Garrett

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Fergus Garrett, Head Gardener of Great Dixter launches the series with a discussion of how you can garden for good: how you can use both environmentally sound gardening techniques and have a stunning garden. You don’t have to choose one or the other! The Dixter team has created a beautiful oasis of biodiversity with a low carbon footprint. Great Dixter is a garden that not only respects the nature that surrounds it, but, in an unexpected reversal, actually preserves and replenishes plants and insects that have died out in the natural areas of Sussex that surround it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.3	Hello and welcome to the BBC Gardner's World magazine podcast, brought to you by the team here at the magazine.
0:45.7	Join us as we chat all things gardening with the nation's favourite experts.
1:01.4	Today I'm joined by Fergus Garrett, the head gardener of internationally renowned Great Dixter.
1:11.3	And I'm so delighted to kick off the series talking with Fergus because I think all of the topics that are coming up I've been encompassed through the process and gardening that has occurred at Great Dixter over the years. Whether it's creating their own compost,
1:16.3	being peat-free from 2006, taking a huge insight into the biodiversity that surrounds this garden,
1:24.0	Great Dixter have been pioneers in gardening in a more sustainable way. And I'm so
1:28.9	thrilled that he can be here because the work that's been carried out at Great Dixter over 30
1:33.3	years of gardening can now be really translated and brought home to our gardens. Fergus Garrett,
1:40.9	I have to give a huge warm welcome to you on the Growing Greener podcast.
1:46.5	I'm so glad that you could join me in this series. Welcome.
1:51.6	Wow, it's my pleasure. Nice to see you again.
1:54.4	Fergus, I obviously have gotten to know you over the last few years, but like most people have looked at the
2:02.5	great Dixter Garden from afar, visited it, are aware of your work, and know that your
2:08.2	contribution into our industry is amazing. But on those times that I get to see you, which isn't
2:14.5	hugely often, meeting you is as if it's your first day at
2:19.5	Dixter. You are still so passionate after 30 years. And I just wanted to start off by talking
2:25.9	about where that spark, fizz energy comes from on a daily basis. Well, it comes from the place
2:33.8	and the people within it.
2:35.2	I think it's a combination of both.
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