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Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week we're exploring the weird, wild and wonderful world of foraging with activist Indy Srinath. Dr Chris Thorogood from Oxford Botanic Garden explains the deadly secrets of some of our most common plants and garden designer Juliet Sargeant shares her love of a particular hebe which has some really useful qualities in the 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.
0:31.6	This is Gardening with the RHS.
0:34.4	I'm Guy Barta.
0:37.1	Have you ever wondered why Nettletle sting? On today's show, passionate botanist
0:42.6	Chris Furrugood explains some surprising ways plants defend themselves against predators.
0:48.3	They have modified hairs which are like glassy needles. They're very, very sharp.
0:53.6	And if you brush up against them, they break the skin and they release all of these toxins.
0:59.0	We'll also be foraging for food with green-thumbed activist in D.Srinath.
1:05.0	When you're out looking for plants and they all kind of start to look alike, and then you start seeing these wild mushrooms of different colors and shapes and sizes and smells.
1:15.6	They're pretty distracting and engaging.
1:18.6	We have some extraordinary stories from the green world
1:21.6	coming up as well, so let's get gardening.
1:29.5	Indy Srinav is an L.A.-based forager with a focus on mushrooms, a passion that began
1:35.2	with a stroll in the forest.
1:39.3	I began foraging about seven years ago when I was studying herbalism in school, and a lot of
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