A love that grows

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Love is in the airwaves this week. We’re bewitched by witch hazels, exploring the amorous history of the rose and the forgotten love language of flowers. Hear growing advice on roses and a Valentine’s bloom you can pick from the garden on the day itself, the violet. Plus expert flower arranging tips from florists Putnam & Putnam.

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance.
0:09.3	The scenery changes many times in one season and our finest trees will happily play the part of.
0:14.7	The best hiding place ever.
0:17.4	Booth.
0:18.2	Put your day out of dreams in the hands of the experts.
0:21.6	It's the greatest show in Earth.
0:23.7	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:33.4	This is Gardening with the RHS.
0:36.2	I'm Guy Barta, Chief Love Doctor. I mean chief horticulturist with the RHS. I'm Guy Barta, Chief Love Doctor. I mean chief
0:39.5	horticulturist at the RHS. And today we're head over heels for the flowers that remind us
0:46.0	of romance. For me, daffodils are the most romantic of flowers and I grow a great big patch of them
0:52.9	for cutting on the back of my allotment.
0:55.2	And every year I gather great bundles of blooms and take them to Mrs. Barter well in time
1:00.5	for Valentine's Day. So that's my romantic gesture. Well, my first of many romantic gestures
1:06.3	through the year.
1:16.2	With that in mind, we're talking about how to create the perfect floral arrangement for Valentine's Day this weekend, and we'll look at roses, why they're associated with love
1:21.3	and explore the importance of pruning.
1:24.4	Before all that, though, I'd like to keep the plant-based passion going and hear about a bewitching winter flowering shrub that's close to one of our advisers' hearts.
1:35.2	I'm Jenny Bowden and I love Hammermelis, Balmsted Gold.
1:43.5	This particular Hammamelis is quite an upright growing witch hazel.
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