A great leap for gardening science

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this week's programme we visit a brand new hotbed of horticultural research in the UK: RHS Hilltop – The home of gardening science. In the heart of RHS Garden Wisley, this state-of-the-art facility will house groundbreaking research into problems affecting real-life gardens, and offer visitors unique insights. We meet award-winning designer Ann-Marie Powell who talks us through the stunning spaces surrounding the building, featuring an array of edibles and wildlife-friendly planting. Plus our resident history maven Fiona Davison shares the story of how Wisley ended up at the forefront of gardening science over a century ago.

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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 add an RHS garden near you.
0:23.6	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:32.6	I'm Guy Barta. This is Gardening with the RHS.
0:36.6	And today is a very, very exciting day for all of us here at
0:40.2	Whistley. At the RHS, we pride ourselves on helping to understand the world of gardening better,
0:48.9	offering expert advice to the country backed up through world-class research. So that's why I'm so excited to be presenting this week's show
0:57.5	celebrating the opening of RHS Hidlop, the home of gardening science.
1:02.8	A new state-of-the-art research facility in the heart of the garden.
1:08.5	It's such a big advancement for us all. Being a scientist myself, I'm so excited by the fantastic new facilities here to offer scope for a broader range of science to be carried out by our scientists.
1:20.6	It's all set to hold all of our researchers, advisors and our collection of more than 86,000 dried plant specimens.
1:29.1	For visitors, we'll have expert talks and people will be able to see the really important
1:34.2	research we do close up. There really is lots to celebrate in this week's show.
1:52.6	I'm currently standing outside the hilltop building at Wisley, the home of gardening science.
1:57.6	On a wonderful sunny day with a blue sky, fluffy clouds, it's idyllic.
2:02.0	I'm joined now by Jassy Draculich, one of the members of the plant health team.
2:05.1	Hi, Jassy. Tell us a bit about the work that you do.
2:09.4	Hi, Guy, lovely to speak to you. So I'm a plant pathologist in the plant health team,
2:13.8	and I work mostly on honey fungus and also a little bit on citizen science.
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