Beyond the garden gate

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that the lotus leaf inspired the creation of self-cleaning glass and paints? Or that some tropical carnivorous plants get so big they can eat shrews? Plant hunter and scientist Dr Chris Thorogood shares some of the incredible floral feats that made him fall in love with plants. Garden writer Pattie Barron recounts a meeting with plant that makes a fragrant waterfall of edible foliage with an unmistakeable Mediterranean ambience. Terry Richardson (aka 'The Black Thumb') is a plant paramedic who rescues orchids from bins; hear his tips on turning trash plants into prize specimens. Plus the RHS gardening advice team tackle questions on evergreen shrubs for pots, poorly-looking roses, growing indoor ferns, and how to make your pond water clear.

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	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.
0:23.7	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts plus under five score free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:32.8	There's nothing for me like standing on a misty mountainside in North Borneo,
0:37.4	looking at a giant
0:38.2	pitcher plant for example or trekking across a desert in Israel and Palestine in pursuit of a parasitic
0:44.8	plant. It was like a waterfall. But instead of water, it was foliage. It just tumbled down so
0:52.7	carelessly down this stone wall. And I vowed then to recreate that
0:57.8	in my own garden. Most people, they just drop them off. Once the flowers drop, they just throw them away.
1:02.6	And so it was really easy for me to get a lot of, to get a lot of orchids and find them at dumpsters
1:08.7	because, you know, most people just don't know
1:11.6	that an orchid when it drops its flowers isn't dead.
1:16.9	This is Gardening with the RHS. I'm Guy Barta.
1:21.4	In today's show, we're all about stepping outside the garden gate.
1:25.9	Getting inspiration and ideas and places you might not expect.
1:29.8	From overseas revelations to saving plants from the bin,
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