139 Episodes

  1. Elder: The people’s purple medicine chest lined with pariahs, period pop-guns & poo

    Published: 12/7/2021

  2. Wild Privet: Your country needs Spitfires, stick-insects and an untrimmed bush!

    Published: 11/30/2021

  3. Ash: Unlocking dieback with firelight, hurley sticks & Heiðrún the Viking goat

    Published: 11/23/2021

  4. Strawberry Tree: No, not that kind... rather, a god-sent Irish oddity with several subterranean secrets

    Published: 11/16/2021

  5. Dogwood: Victorian dating & rodent reanimating; the secrets of the bloody whippletree

    Published: 11/9/2021

  6. Brigit Strawbridge Howard: As busy as a bee, whilst remaining humble as a bumble

    Published: 11/5/2021

  7. The Limes: Bast-ardly BIG trees smothered in glamrock moths & decapitated bees

    Published: 11/2/2021

  8. Sycamore: The mucilage & mysteries stuck upon our misunderstood martyr maple

    Published: 10/26/2021

  9. Field Maple: Is it a BIRD (tongue)? Is it (an experimental Second World War) PLANE (cargo drop)? No! It's the colourful corky bungs of the SAPINDACEAE!

    Published: 10/19/2021

  10. Hornbeam: Hardwood for smelting Boy Scouts & yoking chariots to hunt Ben Hur!

    Published: 10/12/2021

  11. Hazel: "Monsieur, with your mellow fruitfulness, Dormice and ancient epigenetic poetical-pescatarianism, you are really spoiling us!"

    Published: 10/5/2021

  12. The Birches: Magic Shrooms to Witches Brooms, the A to Z of the Birch nurtured

    Published: 9/28/2021

  13. Alder: Swamp thing! You make my heart (-sized root nodules) sing / fix nitrogen with a symbiotic bacterium!

    Published: 9/21/2021

  14. Sweet Chestnut: Legendarily tasty, but as prickly and trustworthy as a Borgia

    Published: 9/14/2021

  15. The Oaks: From two tiny acorns grow Viking Gods, Druidic ritual sacrifice, Nazis and... Mr Darcy?!

    Published: 9/7/2021

  16. Peter Wohlleben: The hidden life of the ‘Green Sheep’ who wanted to become an Ent

    Published: 9/3/2021

  17. Beech: Never judge a ‘buche’ by its leaf-cover - (Buchen sollst du suchen-ish!)

    Published: 8/31/2021

  18. Wych Elm: Which wonky wych is the survivor; our world's first wood woman?

    Published: 8/24/2021

  19. English Elms: Dreams in Crystal Palaces, but coffins by Cathedrals

    Published: 8/17/2021

  20. Sea Buckthorn: Fuelling flying horses & fixing sand dunes - the tree that started it all?

    Published: 8/10/2021

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