Dear Mrs Chatto (May 2018)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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One of the greatest gardeners of the 20th century, Beth Chatto, recently died at the age of 94. Beth was admired and loved by family, friends and gardeners around the world. One of those friends was another legendary plantsman, Roy Lancaster. He visited the garden in Essex she created with her late husband, Andrew, to discuss the development of what she described as a "horticultural and ecological experiment". Hear Beth and Roy in an interview which was to become an article, Dear Mrs Chatto, in the January 2010 issue of The Garden magazine.

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0:40.7	Hello, I'm Fiona Davidson. Hello, I'm Fiona Davison.
0:44.3	In today's special edition of the RHS gardening podcast,
0:47.3	we're remembering a true heroine of horticulture,
0:49.9	Beth Chateau, who passed away recently.
0:53.5	An inspirational gardener, plantswoman and writer, she also won 10 RHS gold medals,
0:57.0	which is why it's appropriate we should be celebrating her life here in the grounds of the Royal Hospital at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
1:05.0	One of the ways that Beth Chateau inspired thousands of gardeners was through her books.
1:09.0	I'm the head of the RHS collections and libraries
1:11.7	and we've got lots of best books from the dry garden, the damp garden, the gravel garden and the
1:17.9	green garden tapestry. Beth was admired and loved by family friends and gardeners around the world.
1:23.6	One of those friends was another legendary plantsman, Roy Lancaster. In 2010 he visited the garden in Essex that she created with her late husband, Andrew,
1:32.2	to discuss the development of what she described as a horticultural and ecological experiment.
1:37.5	Well, as you probably know, for 25 years, after the house was built, we came to live here,
1:42.8	and I started the nursery this was
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