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Gardening with the RHS

Books special 2020

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This year our expert RHS panel comprises Fiona Davison (Head of Libraries and Exhibitions), Chris Young (Editor of The Garden magazine) and Guy Barter (Chief Horticulturist). They share their favourite gardening publications of 2020, and look forwards to some exciting new titles for 2021. We also speak to award-winning author Robert Macfarlane, who, like many people, was dismayed to discover that many nature-related words such as 'bluebell', 'acorn' and 'jay' were being lost from children's dictionaries. Unwilling to sit by and watch nature slip from the consciousness of our young people, he wrote a book – The Lost Words – which is now taught in schools across the country.

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

0:22.4

RHS garden near you. Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under

0:27.7

16s of five pounds. Hello and welcome to Gardening with the RHS and our annual

0:37.0

books special. I'm Chris Young.

0:40.1

This week, we flick through the pages of some green-themed tomes as we look at our favourite

0:45.7

gardening and nature reads from this year, and a delve into the history of gardening through books.

0:52.1

Joining me for today's literary extravaganza,

0:55.1

our fellow podcast presenters,

0:57.2

I am genuinely in awe here,

0:59.1

Fiona Davison and Guy Barta.

1:01.9

We're going to be sharing, virtually of course,

1:04.7

a homemade mince pie from the Youngs

1:06.6

with a little tipple of sherry we found in Guy's Larder,

1:10.0

topped off with a joyous aroma of some candid orange peel from Fiona's kitchen.

1:15.3

Plus, we'll also be speaking to award-winning writer Robert McFarlane

1:18.9

about his passion for the natural world

1:21.1

and how we're forgetting the names of flowers and birds.

1:28.2

Hello there, you two.

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