All about oaks

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week we have an ode to oaks as we celebrate grandfather of British native trees. Wisley Curator Matthew Pottage shares his personal love for Quercus, and wisdom on how to garden with them. Professor Fiona Stafford from the University of Oxford, (author of 'The Long, Long Life of Trees') reveals their history and folklore. Plus Nikki Barker from the RHS Gardening Advice team offers extra advice on ways to use oaks in your garden.

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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,
0:22.1	at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:31.7	They give us peace when we walk through their woodlands.
0:35.0	I just love to look for them in the landscape and on walks.
0:38.3	Everything is very measured about them.
0:41.3	Standing right at the base of it, very, very old tree is probably about a couple
0:47.3	of hundred years old, I'll say.
0:49.3	The trunk is deeply, deeply wrinkled.
0:54.7	And there's these huge limbs that lean out over the pathway
0:57.7	and over into the rest of the woodland on the left-hand side.
1:01.6	The stature and shape can be really, really beautiful.
1:05.2	For me, they're just life of the forest, life of the landscape.
1:10.9	I'm Guy Barta and you're listening to Gardening with the RHS.
1:15.6	The show's had a slight name change but it's still bursting with tips, tricks and gardening delights.
1:23.6	Now, can you guess what the theme for this week's podcast is?
1:28.6	Let's hear some more clues.
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