Episode 117: Honey what's that fungus? Fruity dilemmas, gardens to visit and Plant Encounters

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Our trusty team of gardening experts answers questions on growing rhubarb, pears and strawberries. Plus we hear about a new RHS study on honey fungus and botanist James Armitage unearths more horticultural histories in his latest Wisley Plant Encounter. Listen out too for some of the seasonal highlights from our hundreds of partner gardens, as selected by Garden Visits Editor Sian Thomas.

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	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.
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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.
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0:43.3	Hello, you're listening to the Royal Horticultural Society's gardening podcast. This November edition is packed full of practical seasonal advice from our garden experts.
0:49.3	Plus, botanist James Armitage reveals the surprising stories of some of the weirder plants in the
0:54.9	collection here at our H.S Garden Wisley. And Sean Thomas explores some gorgeous gardens for
1:01.1	to visit this autumn. But first, honey fungus. affecting many different woody shrubs and perennials,
1:07.2	it's one of our most destructive plant diseases. Our advice team receive hundreds of
1:12.9	inquiries from gardeners, concerned about the threat of this disease. To help gauge the spread
1:18.4	and severity of its effect, the RHS science team are asking people to report sightings or possible
1:24.4	sightings of infection across the UK. So let's find out more. I'm Jassy Draculich.
1:30.3	I'm a plant pathologist here at the RHS working at WISley. I work here exclusively researching
1:36.6	honey fungus and the project that we've launched this autumn is a survey called the RHS Honeyfungus Hunt.
1:43.6	It's established initially as a survey to find
1:46.7	mushrooms when they appear in the autumn time, but also to try and gain data from anyone that's
1:52.7	had honey fungus in their gardens previously as well. If you've got any photos of any
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