Palm-a-rama

About this episode

Penny Haslam returns to the garden to plant a new palm tree and discusses gardening tips and experiences.

Gardening podcast hardy palm tree. Penny is back in the garden, knees damp, varifocals dazzled and manure at the ready. In this episode of My Garden Podcast, Penny plants a replacement palm tree from the Palm Centre, wrestles with compost, backfills a hole dug by “hunky husband” and gives her new Trachycarpus fortunei a proper garden welcome. There’s chat about cold-hardy palms and why gardeners keep every scrap of string “just in case”. Penny also reflects honestly on why the podcast paused ...

People in this episode

Host: Penny Haslam

Topics covered

• gardening
• palm trees
• cold-hardy plants
• composting
• garden maintenance

Keywords

• gardening
• palm tree
• Trachycarpus fortunei
• compost
• cold-hardy palms
• garden tips

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Palm Centre

Products: Trachycarpus fortunei

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