Earth Day Special

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

As gardeners, we understand the deep connection between people and the planet. The choices we make in our own green spaces – no matter how small – can ripple outward, creating real impact. This Earth Day, ecological home grower Poppy Okotcha invites us into her world of regenerative gardening. Dr. Hayley Jones explores how welcoming all creatures – even the less popular ones – can nurture a thriving, balanced ecosystem. And campaigner Russell Ball shows us simple, powerful ways to give our urban trees the care and attention they deserve. Host: Jenny Laville Contributors: Poppy Okotcha, Dr Hayley Jones, Russell Ball Links: A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us Poppy Okotcha RHS Slugs: Friend or Foe?: Know Your Slugs and Learn to Live With Them How to stop slugs and snails: what works? Slugs and Snails advice Strangling Tree Ties #FreeTheTree Fund4Trees

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.1	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, at an RHS garden near you.
0:25.6	Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:30.6	55 years ago, in April 1970, environmental protests erupted across the United States.
0:38.3	The spark was a catastrophic oil spill off the coast of California.
0:43.3	A drilling rig located six miles from Santa Barbara suffered a blowout,
0:46.3	unleashing over 3 million gallons of crude oil into the Pacific.
0:50.3	The slit coated 800 square miles of the ocean, killing more than 10,000 seabirds,
0:56.5	dolphin seals and sea lions.
0:59.7	Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson saw the disaster firsthand from the air, the ocean below
1:04.6	choked by oil. Shocked and galvanized, he joined forces with those on the front line of
1:10.0	the disaster. Selma Rubin, Mark McGinnis and Budbottoms, founder of Get Oil Out, to channel that public outrage into action.
1:17.6	Together they laid the groundwork for a new era of environmental awareness, education and policy.
1:25.6	Out of that movement, Earth Day was born.
1:28.3	Today it has grown into a global movement,
1:30.3	engaging over a billion people in 192 countries
1:34.3	and the planet.
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