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The Drag Queen Gardener on allotments, break-ups and the benefits of gardening
Season 3 · Episode 5

The Drag Queen Gardener on allotments, break-ups and the benefits of gardening

Join Tom aka The Drag Queen Gardener for a sunny stroll round Birmingham Botanical Gardens

A Life More Wild

July 5, 202318m 47s

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Show Notes

What’s the best thing to do when you’re going through a bad breakup? How about get an allotment, develop a love of gardening and find yourself an entirely new career? Well, it worked for Tom Leonard, who, in a matter if months went from knowing nothing about plants to professional garden design and appearing at Chelsea Flower Show as his alter ego, Daisy Desire, aka The Drag Queen Gardener.


Join Tom now for a sunny stroll round Birmingham Botanical Gardens, where they learnt their trade, saw how beneficial gardening could be for mental health… and worked out the one single thing without which, a garden isn’t really a garden at all.


A Life More Wild is an 18Sixty production, brought to you by Canopy & Stars. Production and sound recording by Clarissa Maycock. Our theme music is by Billie Marten.