Episode 24: Seasonal jobs, shrub selection and gardening stories from the RHS Lindley Library

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast we visit the Lindley Library at the RHS headquarters in Vincent Square, London to hear some fascinating tales from the gardening archives as Head of Libraries and Exhibitions, Fiona Davison picks out her highlights from the collection. Also, Principal Horticultural Advisor, Leigh Hunt is on hand to give his recommendations for shrubs for seasonal scent and the RHS Garden Wisley team outlines jobs you should be doing in your garden right now, including: • Weeding beds • Renovating old fruit trees • Re-potting larger houseplants Plus, as always, we have the latest news on events and offers across our four RHS Gardens.

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0:22.1	at an RHS garden near you.
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0:40.8	Hello and welcome back to the RHS gardening podcast.
0:45.8	Each fortnight we bring you a mixture of features and discussions exploring every aspect of gardening.
0:50.4	Plant care, pest control, container ideas, growing your own fruit and vegetables.
0:54.8	Plus, expert seasonal advice on what you should be doing in your garden right now.'m tony dixon one of the team of horticultural advisors here at rHS garden wistley in
1:00.2	surrey coming up in this edition shrubs to add seasonal scent shape and color to every plot big or small
1:07.1	expert seasonal advice from the rHS garden Team, and we visit the Lindley Library
1:11.8	at the RHS London headquarters to explore some of its unique and fascinating collections
1:15.8	of books and images.
1:17.5	But first, let's head out into the gardens here at RHS Wisley to find out what jobs the horticultural
1:22.4	teams are tackling this January.
1:25.8	Hello, my name's Lucy Tate, and I'm team leader of the herbaceous department here at Archess
1:30.0	Garden Wisley.
1:31.2	So January, this time of the year, we're getting stuck into cutting back our herbaceous material,
1:37.3	things that have broken and fallen in the wet and the rain over the past couple of weeks.
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