2021 Books special

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Cold winter nights are the perfect time to get reading, so this week’s podcast is a celebration of gardening books and garden writing. Writer and BAFTA award-winning TV producer Jonathan Drori takes us around the world in 80 plants while RHS authors Fiona Davison and Gareth Richards discuss their favourite books of the year. Plus a look at how gardening newsletters are bringing fresh ideas to the horticultural world. Books mentioned in this programme: Around the World in 80 Plants – Jonathan Drori Flower-Name Fancies – Guy-Pierre Fauconnet RHS Weeds – Gareth Richards The Hidden Horticulturists – Fiona Davison Vegetables: The Definitive Guide for Gardeners – Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix How to Garden the Low-Carbon Way – Sally Nex Spirit of Place – Susan Owens Tropical Plants and How to Love Them – Marianne Willburn For links to more info please see our episode page or visit rhs.org.uk/podcast

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:06.4	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance to delight your senses.
0:13.2	Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars.
0:17.4	Race you, let's go.
0:19.5	Catch Springs finest scenes while you can at an RHS garden near you. Let's go. Catch springs, finest scenes while you can at an
0:22.4	RHS garden near you. Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under
0:27.7	16s of five pounds.
0:33.6	Hello and welcome to gardening with the RHS with me Fiona Davison.
0:38.3	And me, Gareth Richards.
0:40.3	As a book lover, I'm really looking forward to today's show.
0:43.3	We'll be opening up some of our favourite gardening and nature books from the past year.
0:47.3	And as Head of Libraries at the RHS, of course I've been rummaging through the shelves.
0:52.3	And I've found a very special and odd book
0:54.9	from the early 20th century that I'll be sharing with you later. We'll also be travelling
1:00.3	around the globe with Jonathan Drury, a documentary filmmaker, plant lover and author
1:04.6	whose most recent book is called Around the World and Eighty Plants. So much to explore, let's get
1:10.5	into it. Back in 2018, Jonathan Drury
1:20.1	wrote Around the World in 80 trees, but this year he treated us all to a follow-up around the
1:24.5	world in 80 plants. In his most recent book, he explores the science,
1:28.7	history and cultural significance of a huge range of plants. He started by explaining how his
1:33.7	interest in the natural world came via his tongue. I first became interested in plants when my
1:40.2	parents dragged my brother and me around Kew Gardens when I was about five or six years
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