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Gardening with the RHS

Chelsea Shorts - Hero Plants of Chelsea (2 of 3)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Get an exclusive peek behind the scenes of the greatest flower show on earth. Today we celebrate the real stars of the show – the plants! Designers Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Kate Gould share their insights into the planting in this year’s show gardens and Show Manager Katherine Potsides outlines some of the other plant highlights to look out for. For more info and useful links see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast

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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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