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Podcast: HortWeek Podcast
Episode: Harnessing biodiversity at Trentham Gardens with Carol Adams
Description: Having grown up exploring the Scottish countryside, Carol Adams’ interest in forestry grew into a horticulture qualification. Around eight years ago, this brought her to Trentham, a 725 acres estate in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire. With influence from Capability Brown, the gardens have seen many evolutions over the years, most recently, the likes of Tom Stuart-Smith, Piet Oudolf, and Nigel Dunnett who have created a sustainable and contemporary planting scheme, with sometimes accidental biodiverse benefits. [They] “hadn’t originally intended to create the biodiversity and the ecosystem service that we have but it transpires that it has a...