Episode 115: Curator's tips, grow your own gourmet garlic and Wisley Plant Encounters

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Wisley's Curator Matthew Pottage shares seasonal gardening tips and gives us an update on all the exciting new developments that are transforming RHS Garden Wisley. We visit the RHS London Harvest Festival Show to hear growing tips and fascinating ideas for uses of garlic. Plus, botanist James Armitage unearths an ancient larch tree with a mysterious past in his latest Wisley Plant Encounter.

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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.
0:42.6	Hello and welcome back to the Royal Horticultural Society's gardening podcast.
0:48.3	Autumn is definitely in the air here at the RHS headquarters in Vincent Square in London.
0:53.2	There's that golden slanting light coming through the trees, and because of the plain trees that's around Vincent Square, there's that childlike pleasure of crunching through the nice dry leaves on your way
0:58.2	into the office. I'm Sean Thomas, Garden Visits Editor of the RHS Magazine for Members, The Garden.
1:04.5	Coming up in today's podcast, we learn the secrets of perfectly perfumed garlic from one of the UK's
1:10.1	specialist nurseries.
1:11.7	Botanist James Armitage continues his series of plant portraits as he encounters some of the more
1:16.9	unusual specimens in RHS Garden Wisley's plant collection, plus practical seasonal advice on what
1:22.9	jobs you can tackle in your garden now from the RHS's horticultural team.
1:28.7	So my name's Matthew Potage and I'm the curator here at RHS Garden Wisley.
1:33.6	Things to be doing and looking out for in your own garden and actually what I've been doing
1:37.2	at home recently, if you haven't got round to it yet, if you haven't done any checks or
1:42.5	treatment with nematodes for vine weevil, if you've got
1:46.4	potted plants or succulents that they particularly like to go for, like Equivarius or Sempervivans,
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