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🗓️ 18 May 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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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 fives go free and under 16s of five pounds. |
0:31.5 | Hello, you're listening to Chelsea Shorts from the RHS, an exclusive peak behind the scenes of the greatest flower show on |
0:39.3 | Earth. Today, meet the real stars off the show The Plants. I'm Bunny Guinness and I'm |
0:46.0 | landscape architect. Plants this year have been very difficult, as I'm sure everybody's been telling |
0:50.4 | you, because they've had such huge temper extremes. So some things are in bud that should |
0:55.7 | be in flower and some things have just gone over so fast. Like the cherries came and went in six days |
1:01.7 | and normally you'd expect a month and that's just that really hot after the cold. The planting is all |
1:08.0 | quite informal this year, I would say more emphasis on plants this year. Definitely. |
1:14.6 | I think people have been getting a bit fed up with these very sterile, big, blokey type gardens, |
1:21.6 | and I think they're all a bit softer and more plancy, and I think the public are going to be pretty happy this year. |
1:28.7 | There's something like, is it 3,000 new plants come into plant finder every year? |
1:33.6 | 3,000 every year. |
1:35.7 | And that might be ones that we haven't known about in the wild. |
1:38.8 | It might be new cultivars or whatever. |
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