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Gardening with the RHS

Deep Winter Gardening

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week, we explore some of the most eye-catching parts of deep winter gardening, all while providing advice on what you can do in your garden as January draws to a close. Dawn Smith from Walberton Nursery shares her love of hellebores, RHS Team Leader Mark Tuson teaches us how to build ornamental habitat structures to attract wildlife, and RHS Advisors respond to pressing winter questions and concerns.  Links: How to grow hellebores Plan your visit to Wisley Dead wood and compost heap habitats 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.

0:24.0

Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.

0:31.6

At this time, deep in January, when everything feels a bit bleak, the winter walk at RHS Garden Wisley has never

0:39.2

looked better. Start off as you go in through the entrance, there's lovely daffodils in

0:44.4

flower at the moment called Rheinveld's Early Sensation. This daffodil is a proper trumpet

0:49.8

daffodil and always flowers early. After that, you follow the path round and you come to the coloured stems.

0:57.0

A forest of stems each about two metres high,

1:00.0

and in reds and oranges and some greens and some blacks, and also silvers.

1:05.0

And these are from plants like cornice, which is dogwood, willows, that's salix,

1:09.0

and also a kind of rubus, a kind of bramble that's

1:12.6

got the most amazing silvery foliage. Then after that we come to the witch hazels. The witch

1:18.2

hazels have got fine feathery flowers, the ones we've chosen for the winter walk are

1:23.3

mostly oranges and yellow, so they're really warm and glow and glisten. Going on a bit further, you come to the hellebores.

1:30.3

The hellebores only come up to your ankle, they're quite low-growing plants with the darkest green leaves.

1:35.3

You have to really get up close to appreciate them.

1:38.3

But nowadays, breeders are breeding hellebore so the flowers are more upright,

1:42.3

so you can appreciate them without having to get down on your hands and knees.

1:46.0

And the hellebores are also more weather resistant, so even in the harsh weather we've had this year, they're looking really good.

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