How to create a balcony garden with Jason Williams

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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From the unique challenges gardening at height brings, to the wonderful rewards when your hard work pays off, Jason joins us to spill the beans on why he created his Cloud Garden and shares his honest approach to gardening that has created a loyal fanbase of fellow cloud gardeners. 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.
1:00.3	Hello, I'm Lily and I'm a content creator here at BBC Gardner's World magazine.
1:07.6	I garden on my four-floor balcony and I love finding new ways to embrace gardening in a small space and at height.
1:13.7	I'm always inspired by what Jason Williams, aka the cloud gardener, is up to.
1:18.5	He gardens on his 18th floor balcony in Manchester City Centre.
1:24.3	I started by asking him why he decided to turn his balcony into his cloud garden.
1:31.1	So Jason, first up, I would like you to tell me about that moment when you'd never gardened and you looked out your window at your balcony and did something flick in your
1:39.5	mind? What happened to make you decide to turn your balcony into your cloud garden?
1:45.2	Well, I just moved into the property during the lockdown and the balcony was so big and it just
1:53.9	looked so bare, so barren. And so I decided, let me just go and get something just to brighting up a little bit.
2:03.7	And I ended up with a couple of marigolds.
2:06.1	But because the balcony is so long, it just looked out of place.
2:09.8	And so I decided to go back the next day to the garden centre to go and get one or two more plants.
2:15.1	And it just kind of escalated.
2:16.7	But I think as gardeners, we just kind of do that.
2:18.8	Things accidentally fall into the basket, as I say.
2:23.4	And then, yeah, the garden just expanded.
2:26.9	Did you have an interest before?
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