Burghley House Head Gardener, Joe Whitehead

Talking Dirty

This week one of the nicest men in horticulture is back on The Talking Dirty Podcast. Joe Whitehead is Head Gardener at Burghley House on the Cambridgeshire/Lincolnshire border. He talks Alan Gray (East Ruston Old Vicarage) and Thordis through some of the changes which have been going on in the garden, and shares his favourite shade plants of the moment.

PLANT LIST

Catalpa bignonioides 'Aurea'

Paulownia tomentosa

Cornus kousa 'Milky Way'

Betula utilis subsp. jacquemontii

Dodecatheon meadia syn Primula meadia

Lonicera involucrata

Tulip bakerii 'Lilac Wonder'

Tulipa sylvestris

Lunaria annua 'Chedglow'

Lunaria annua 'Somerset Marble'

Smilacina racemosa syn Maianthemum racemosum

Arum italicum subsp. neglectum 'Monksilver'

Lamium orvala

Epimedium 'Amber Queen'

Epimedium 'Sphinx Twinkler'

Epimedium pubigerum

Omphalodes cappadocica 'Cherry Ingram'

Lamium orvala 'John Foster'

Lunaria annua 'Corfu Blue'

Digitalis purpurea 'Pam's Choice'

Taraxacum pseudoroseum

Crepis rubra

Toona sinensis 'Flamingo'

Acer pseudoplatanus 'Brilliantissimum'

Ficaria verna 'Brazen Hussy'

Ficaria verna 'Double Mud'

Helianthus annuus 'Teddy Bear'

Erysimum 'Parish's'

Erysimum 'Ruston Copper Knob'

Campanula medium