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Gardening with the RHS

Art and the garden

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re exploring the relationship between art and gardens. Including an interview with award-winning designer Sarah Price who shares her experience of using art to inspire her RHS Chelsea gold medal winning gardens, and we visit a new David Hockney exhibition celebrating the arrival of spring in his garden in France. Plus plant-loving Instagrammers discuss how social media affects the way we garden and Curator of RHS Garden Wisley, Matthew Pottage, shares tips how to use sculpture in your home plot.

Transcript

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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.

0:32.1

From Monet's world-famous water lilies,

0:34.6

two images on an ancient Greek vase showing beautiful gardens,

0:38.3

to Frieda Carlo's appreciation of the natural world.

0:41.3

Depictions of green spaces have inspired artists since the beginning of time.

0:46.3

But what about the other way round?

0:48.3

When works of art are used to inspire us as gardeners.

0:52.3

I'm thinking about painterly planting

0:54.5

are gardens whose colour schemes reflect a favourite artist.

0:59.1

In today's show, we're exploring the ever-evolving relationship

1:02.7

between art and nature

1:04.4

and how we can all channel our inner artist.

1:12.3

I'm Fiona Davison, head of libraries and exhibitions at the RHS.

1:16.8

And studying and sharing works of art that try to capture nature is a part of my job that I

1:21.9

really love. We've got over 30,000 botanical artworks and it's always a pleasure to spend

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