Episode 114: Get the jungle look! Wisley's new Exotic Garden, going wild for wildlife in winter and incredible history of apples at the RHS

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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We visit Wisley's stunning new Exotic Garden to discover the plants that give it such a tropical ambience, and get tips of how to get the look at home. Wildlife expert Kate Bradbury makes the case for being relaxed about autumn tidy-ups to provide habitats for overwintering wildlife. Meanwhile at the Lindley Library, we discover an exhibition of the RHS's remarkable 200-year project to protect heritage apples.

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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, let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can,
0:22.1	at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:55.8	Hello and welcome back to the Royal Horticultural Society's gardening podcast. I'm Guy Barta, Chief Horticulturist at the RHS. In this podcast, we discuss all aspects of gardening, plant care, pests and diseases, botanical art, gardening in a changing climate,
1:00.8	and much more. We hope that you'll hear something to interest you. Whether you have years of gardening experience or none at all. Coming up in this edition, the nights are drawing in and there's
1:07.4	a chill in the air. But there's a taste of sunnier climbs on the
1:11.2	RHS gardening podcast as we visit the brand new exotic garden here at Wizzley. The latest
1:18.0	news on events and activities at RHS Gardens this autumn. Plus what are codlings,
1:24.3	costards and bithens? A new exhibition at the Lindley Library reveals all.
1:29.6	But first, let's go out to meet wildlife expert Kate Bradbury and hear about some of the
1:34.7	key jobs you can be doing in your garden now to protect the wildlife there.
1:40.9	Typically in autumn, I try to resist the gardener's urge to clear everything down, chop everything up, put it on the compost heap.
1:48.1	Because as temperatures start to fall, wildlife really needs somewhere to knuckle on down for winter undisturbed.
1:56.2	So what my borders do is they rot into themselves.
2:04.5	The stems fall, they collapse, the seed heads scatter themselves everywhere. I have teasels all over my lawn. It's a nightmare. But I know that
2:10.3	in allowing my borders to stay intact for all of winter, I'm providing the wildlife with a really valuable hibernation space.
2:20.8	And all this means is that the wildlife doesn't end up in the compost bin
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