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Gardening with the RHS

Alpine Delights, Wisteria Pruning, and the Great RHS Award Snub

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s show, we take a behind the scenes look at the ways spring is fighting its way into the picture at RHS Garden Wisley. We go behind the scenes at the Alpine Display House, we get a masterclass on pruning wisteria, and we dive into the life and work of the eccentric and influential horticulturist Ellen Willmott – and explore a theory for why she may have missed her Victoria Medal of Honour ceremony.  Presenter: Guy Barter Contributors: Alex Hankey, Matthew Pottage, Suzanne Moss Links: Visiting Wisley Narcissus bulbocodium  How to get wonderful Wisteria: Buying, planting, pruning and care tips “Gardens have provided solace, opportunity and inspiration for LGBTQ+ people” Miss Willmott’s Ghosts: the extraordinary life and gardens of a forgotten genius

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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.

0:33.6

We start nice and early and the sun is not really risen, but you come in here and you're greeted by wonderful, you know, smiling faces of all these lovely flowering plants.

0:48.3

The trees are still bare, plants are still waking up to come in here and see plants that are in their absolute full vibrancy is a really

0:55.4

lovely, lovely thing to do every day. That's Alex Hankey talking from behind the scenes of the

1:04.8

Alpine Display House at RHS Garden Wisley. And I couldn't have said it better myself.

1:12.8

There's something spectacular,

1:18.5

soul-stirring about seeing the early blooms at this time of year, snowdrops and the early daffodils offering the season's first blasts of floral colour. And today we'll be taking a

1:24.6

behind-the-scenes look at the way spring is fighting its way into the picture at Wisley. We'll be taking a behind-the-scenes look at the way Spring is fighting its way into

1:28.5

the picture at Whizley.

1:31.0

We'll be getting a masterclass on pruning wisteria with none other than curator Matt Potage,

1:36.7

and finally we're diving into the life and work of the eccentric and influential horticulturalist

1:42.0

Ellen Wilmot and exploring a theory for why she may have missed

1:45.8

her Victoria Medal of Honor ceremony. You're listening to Gardening with the RHS, with me, Guy Barta.

1:58.4

Let's jump right back in with Alex Hanky at WISley's Alpine Display House to get an inside

2:04.4

look at their current top performers.

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