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Cracks & Crevices

Poet extraordinaire Benjamin Zephaniah describes how although he came from a family of farmers in the Caribbean, he started knowing nothing when he began gardening.

Liza Tarbuck discovers how we can transform walls and concrete crevices into homes for little plant life. Gardener Tayshan Hayden-Smith is back and talks about how he turned the outside walls of his flat during lockdown green with a climber. Poet extraordinaire Benjamin Zephaniah describes how although he came from a family of farmers in the Caribbean, he started knowing nothing when he began gardening. Hear how he went on to live off the produce of his garden during lockdown. Plus there's more power of plants with Dr Lauriane Chalmin-Pui - the Wellbeing Fellow from the Royal Horticultural Society. Today it's Daffodils! And find out what Benjamin picked to add to Liza's Imaginary Flower bed.

If you've been inspired to Let It Grow, let us know what you've been planting! Email liza.t@bbc.co.uk or share it on social media using #LetItGrow

Let's... Let Go and Let It Grow!

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29 minutes

Music Played

  • Travis

    Flowers In The Window

    • (CD Single).
    • Independiente.
  • Patrice Rushen

    Forget Me Nots

    • Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.
  • Scott McKenzie

    San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.
  • Sweet Female Attitude

    Flowers

    • (CD Single).
    • WEA.
  • The Foundations

    Build Me Up Buttercup

    • Million Sellers Vol.12 - The Sixties.
    • Disky.
  • The Lotus Eaters

    First Picture Of You (12" Version)

    • A Kick Up The '80s Volume 2: Go Wild In The Country (Various Artists).
    • Old Gold.
  • Miley Cyrus

    Flowers

    • Endless Summer Vacation.
    • Columbia.
  • Lynn Anderson

    Rose Garden

    PAUSE FOR THOUGHT

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

Broadcast

  • Sat 8 Apr 2023 02:00