Dame Mary Berry: The charm and inspiration behind ‘My Gardening Life’ - Episode 273
5/7/202632 min
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Throughout Mary Berry's life, the garden has played a charming role, from her wartime childhood plot to a brand-new garden started in her 80s - it’s an essential ingredient in her life.
This week on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ Mary kindly joins us to explore a lifetime of gardening, how it’s inspired her new book, and how gardening can bring joy, structure and wellbeing at every stage of life.
In this episode, discover:
- How Mary’s lifelong love of gardening began in her childhood and continues to shape her daily life
- Practical, gentle tips for spring gardening and successional planting
- How Mary approaches designing and maintaining a garden later in life, using evergreens, hedges and topiary for structure
- Everyday good habits in the garden, such as watering, deadheading, and keeping lawns neat
Order Mary’s Book:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Gardening-Life-Mary-Berry/dp/0241726654
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First 90 secondsSarah Raven· Host0:00
Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange on this very special episode with me and the wonderful, fantastic Mary Berry. It's the first time you can watch on our YouTube channel. That's the Sarah Raven YouTube channel with a link in the show notes. So if you want to watch Mary and I having a chat, head over there. [upbeat music] Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven. And today, I am chatting with Mary Berry, who is one of my heroines in life. She was a mentor to me from 30 years ago at least, and I'm incredibly fond and devoted to Mary, who, as you will all know, is in her early 90s, and she's the most exceptional person, and she has just written a gardening book. So we couldn't, or I couldn't not have her on the podcast. It's called Mary Berry: My Gardening Life. And as Mary said to me this morning, um, she's only ever written one gardening book, and it's this, and she's not gonna write another one. [laughs] So as this is a gardening podcast, I had to invite Mary. Hello, Mary. Good morning.
Mary Berry· Guest1:17
Good morning. And when you said mentor, on cooking, [laughs] not on gardening, I might say.
Sarah Raven· Host1:22
Well, on cooking and on kind of life lessons. And we were actually just talking, Mary and I, about