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Gardening with the RHS

Episode 108: Hairy Bikers at Hampton, incredibly edible show gardens, going wild and going green

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week's edition comes from the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, where BBC's Hairy Bikers share their love of edible gardening in the RHS Kitchen Garden, created by award-winning designer Juliet Sargeant. Plus we discover cunning designs aimed at coping with climate change, and reconnecting children with nature through play.

Transcript

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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 add an RHS garden near you.

0:24.0

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

0:43.6

Hello and welcome to a July edition of the Royal Horticultural Society's gardening podcast.

0:48.1

I'm Jenny Bowden, a member of the garden advice team here at the RHS.

0:55.6

This week, our team is hard at work helping gardens with their problems at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.

1:01.1

And this podcast is coming to you from the show itself on the Banks of the Thames, bringing you a closer look at some of this year's highlights. And what a show week it's been.

1:06.0

Gorgeous sun and blue skies showing this enormous floral extravaganza at its best, with hundreds of exhibitors

1:13.2

bringing the best in gardening to the regal surroundings of the palace grounds. I've really enjoyed the

1:19.0

show gardens this year, especially the great gardens of the USA, a series of three gardens

1:24.5

encapsulating specific areas of the country so there's a

1:28.7

garden on Oregon there's one based around what you'd see in Charleston the

1:33.9

hidden gardens of Charleston and the beaches of Florida and they've just done

1:37.8

really well to just put the flavor of each of those parts of the states into those

1:43.2

small spaces and I really enjoyed them to look at as a threesome as well as individually.

1:48.0

I thought it was lovely ideas.

1:50.0

One of the biggest crowd pullers this year was the RHS kitchen garden.

1:55.0

This was a large show garden created by designer Juliet Sgt.

1:59.0

Entirely made medable plants. Each day, renowned travelling

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