Oct 10 2023 56 mins 15
Gardens for Good Causes, with Hattie Ghaui
A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.
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Garden soundtrack
The glory of October
3:25 Reading from Kew Gardens, by Virginia Woolf. Written in 1919, available in hardback from Kew Publications, 2018
Read by Milli Proust
8:19 Interview with Hattie Ghaui
9:00 A summary of Project Giving Back’s work...
10:56 … and how Hattie became involved
11:25 How PGB is funded
12:13 The original goal
12:30 Me, failing to get Hattie to preempt the announcement (made in late September) about the extension of the original remit
14:35 Hattie, repping the business world on Gardens, Weeds & Words!
15:00 Hattie’s own childhood memories of plants and gardens
22:20 Hattie’s present garden and gardening style
24:29 An unexpected plug for To Stand and Stare
25:15 Hacking Big Money for charities at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Can philanthropy really help?
31:02 PGB's due diligence process for charities and corporate partners
34:45 What kind of difference can Chelsea make to a charity?
Gardens for good causes, the PGB podcast https://www.givingback.org.uk/podcasts
40:27 The variety of different charities supported
41:36 Sustainability at Chelsea, and the legacy of a PGB show garden
45:23 Keep asking the questions, PGB and the RHS
47:20 A few stand out PGB projects
50:09 The long term impact of the gardens
53:41 Book writing – To Stand and Stare, and what comes next from me
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Thank you to Hattie Ghaui for joining me on this episode of the Gardens, Weeds & Words podcast.
You can find Hattie on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/hghaui/
and Project Giving Back here https://www.instagram.com/project.giving.back/
and on the web here https://www.givingback.org.uk/
With thanks once again to Milli Proust for this episode’s reading. Milli’s beautiful instagram is here https://www.instagram.com/milliproust/
My own book, To Stand and Stare; how to garden by doing next to nothing, is published by DK Life, and is available here https://geni.us/Qs2d
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