In this episode we are focused on compost and listen out because there will be a chance for you to get involved and tell us about your compost journey.

Liz Elton is an artist whose work looks at waste and the recycling of matter. She sometimes thinks she "sees the world through her compost bin". For the past few years she has been photographing the compost caddy in her kitchen. The images are beautiful.

In this episode we also learn how to compost from gardener and writer Helen Hutchings-Cox who also has a passion for compost and how it is vital for soli health.

And we hear how composting, from their different perspectives, has for both of them changed their views of the world.

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Our Plant Stories is presented and produced by Sally Flatman

The music is Fade to Black by Howard Levy

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Gavin Munro describes himself as a chair farmer. In his orchard he grows trees and meticulously shapes them into chairs. As the trees grow, their branches are carefully trained, pruned and grafted, gently guided to form a back, seat and four legs.

Fullgrown is the project and passion of Gavin and his wife Alice and he takes us on a tour of the orchard and explains how not every tree wants to be a chair.

One of their chairs will be part of the Plant Heritage Missing Collector garden at this year's prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower show.

Who will sit on it?

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Our Plant Stories is presented and produced by Sally Flatman

The music is Fade to Black by Howard Levy

Buddleja davidii is Jess's 'spirit' plant and I think if you listen to this episode it will be obvious why.

Also known as the Butterfly Bush it's the purple buddleja that you see growing in the cracks of pavements and walls, along the railway sidings. It comes from China and the first seeds arrived at Kew gardens, 130 years ago.

Jess Turtle is the co-founder and director of the Museum Of Homelessness in Finsbury Park in North London and this plant story was recorded in the museum garden which has been built by the community. People and plant communities have more in common than we might think.

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