Gardeners' Glees

November 12, 2025 · 15 min · Season 3 · Episode 19

About this episode

The episode explores the historical tradition of gardeners singing glees and features discussions with a historian and a musician.

If you find yourself in a gathering of gardeners today they are unlikely to break into a glee...a song, as their predecessors might have done. I think its a bit of a shame! As part of the Being Human Festival - the UK's national festival of the humanities , historian Francesca Murray and musician Osnat Schmool gathered a group of people to explore these glees. A chance to be transported back to a lost world of gardening. And I composed a glee! Our Plant Stories is presented and produced by Sally Flatman The music is Fade to Black by Howard Levy Every month I will make a plant story but stories often lead to more stories and I end up publishing Offshoot episodes. So if you 'Follow' the podcast on your podcast app you will never miss an episode. It also makes a real difference if you can spare the time to rate and/or review an episode after you have listened. Spotify and Apple look at these ratings and it helps to get the podcast promoted to other plant lovers. Independent podcasts like Our Plant Stories depend on their listeners for help with the costs of making the podcast such as the hosting platform and the editing programme. Using the Buy Me A Coffee platform you can make a…

People in this episode

Host: Sally Flatman

Guests: Francesca Murray, Osnat Schmool

Topics covered

gardening
music
history
community
humanities

Keywords

gardeners
glees
music
history
community
Being Human Festival
Sally Flatman

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Being Human Festival, Buy Me A Coffee, Spotify, Apple, OP3

Books & works: Fade to Black