Healing Gardens in Time of War with Lalage Snow

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Imagine you’re in danger. Your home has become a warzone – bombs and bullets are a daily occurrence. What would you do? Astonishingly, the answer for many people is to create a garden. War correspondent Lalage Snow has travelled to Israel, Gaza, Ukraine and Afghanistan to document the gardens that people create to provide peace and respite from the wars around them. She shares how gardening can be an act of hope and defiance. Do you have a gardening question you'd like Alan Titchmarsh's help with? Submit your question in the comments below or go to www.gardenersworld.com/podcast/questions/ Alan will answer a selection in the Ask Alan podcast series from BBC Gardeners' World Magazine in February and March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:25.8	Hello, just to let you know, this episode with Lally Snow exploring the gardens of war zones
1:31.5	does unsurprisingly contain discussions of war and death. So if you're a regular listener to this
1:37.8	podcast, you might find the content of this episode more serious than you're used to, and perhaps
1:43.0	not one to listen to with the kids.
1:45.8	Imagine you're in danger. Your family and your home are at risk. The place you live has
1:50.8	become a war zone. Bombs and bullets are a daily occurrence. What would you do?
1:56.9	Astonishingly, the answer for many people is they create a garden.
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