Blossoms Special

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

With spring just around the corner, we thought we’d devote an entire episode to blossoming trees. We’ll get into selection and planting advice, and journey across time and space to discover their history and current status. Tree Nurseryman Nick Dunn walks us through how to select the perfect cherry tree for an English garden, Journalist Naoko Abe takes us back in time to explore the work and legacy of cherry-tree fanatic Collingwood Ingram, and Richard Baines, Curator at Logan Botanic Garden in Scotland, gives us an inside look at his efforts to conserve endangered evergreen magnolias. Plus, RHS Advisor Lenka Cooke shares a dynamic tutorial on planting flowering apple trees this March. Links: Flowering cherry trees for small gardens ‘Cherry’ Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan’s Blossoms Plant Explorer: A Plantsman’s travels in Northern Vietnam How to grow apples: RHS advice

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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.
0:31.8	Loveliest of trees, the cherry now,
0:34.2	is hung with bloom along the bow
0:35.7	and stands about the woodland ride wearing whites for
0:39.3	Easter tide. Those are the words of English poet and classical scholar A.E. Hausman. He's talking
0:47.0	about the blossoming of cherry trees in spring, the breathtaking but temporary flowers
0:51.1	that usher in the growing season throughout much of the temperate world. But of course, like anything rife with life, cherry blossoms must eventually fall.
0:59.0	Their brief existence, as Hausmann makes clear, serves as a marker of time,
1:03.0	the start of a new season, the passing of another year.
1:07.0	As we enter the prime blooming months, we want to savour these fleeting blossoms, take in their beauty and share their delight before it's too late.
1:14.6	So, as you may have guessed, today's show will be entirely devoted to blossoming trees.
1:18.6	We'll get into selection and planting advice and journey across time and space
1:22.6	to discover their history in present circumstance.
1:25.6	When you have the blue sky behind this tree, it's spectacular.
1:32.3	It's absolutely gorgeous. It's quite unusual.
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