Apple Pruning, Allotment Preparation, and the Thinking Behind Plant Names

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re exploring small but useful nuggets of information that have the potential to change the way we interact with our surroundings this growing season. We’re getting seasonal tips on GYO – things like training and pruning apple trees and preparing allotments for the busiest time of year. And, we’re delving into plant names – and the system behind our classifications. Presenter: Guy Barter Contributors: Andy Lewis, Jenny Laville, James Armitage Contact: [email protected] Links: Apples and pears: winter gardening The Newt in Somerset – an RHS Partner Garden Allotments: getting started RHS Practical Latin for Gardeners Untangling Latin Names

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.1	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.
0:23.6	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.6	Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds. I think the greatest gift that I have got from gardening was the ability to recognise plants
0:44.3	and thus to enhance every aspect of my life, every single walk to the shops or trip to the park,
0:53.3	suddenly became an excursion with friends and
0:59.0	suddenly being able to see these things almost for the first time despite the fact that
1:05.0	they'd been there in front of my eyes for years was a revelation and it did profoundly change my life.
1:13.6	That's a clip from an interview we did with writer and gardener Ben Dark.
1:26.6	He's one of the many contributors
1:28.9	we've had on this podcast who zeroed in on the particular moment in their life when they started
1:34.5	coming out of plant blindness, a moment when the world comes into sharp focus. I experienced that
1:41.6	myself, but in a slightly different way.
1:44.5	My mother was an enthusiastic gardener with a garden full of plants, and she had a plant
1:48.7	encyclopedia, and one day aged about 17, I was leafing through it and was absolutely stunned
1:54.8	by the enormous variation in plants that are available for gardens.
1:59.4	And this idea of enriching your experience in a garden
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