Episode 25: A winter walk at RHS Garden Wisley, pond care and your gardening questions answered

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast, we’re at RHS Garden Wisley where Garden Manager, Matthew Pottage takes us on a guided tour of the new winter walk project. Plus, we visit the advice team where expert RHS advisors answer your gardening questions including how to reinvigorate lavender, how to prune Wisteria and how to prepare potatoes before planting. Also, members of the RHS Garden Wisley team are on hand with advice on what you should be doing in your garden right now, including: • February pond care • Collecting birch and hazel cuttings for staking perennials • Preparing your vegetable garden And, as always we have the latest news on events and offers across all four of the RHS Gardens.

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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.
0:42.3	Hello and welcome back to the RHS gardening podcast. Every fortnight, we bring you a mixture of features and discussions, exploring every aspect of gardening.
0:49.3	Plant care, pest control, container ideas, growing your own fruit and vegetables,
0:56.5	plus expert seasonal advice on what you should be doing in your garden right now. I'm Jenny Bowden, one of the team of
1:02.3	horticultural advisors here at RHS Garden, Wisley and Surrey. Coming up in this edition, RHS experts
1:09.5	answer your seasonal gardening questions,
1:11.6	an exclusive tour of the brand new Winter Garden Walk, which is being developed as an exciting new attraction here at RHS Garden Wisley,
1:19.6	and the latest news on events across our four RHS Gardens.
1:23.6	But first, let's head out into the gardens here at RHS Garden Wisley
1:28.2	to find out what jobs the horticultural teams are tackling right now.
1:33.0	Hi, it's Bernard Bordman here.
1:35.5	I looked after ponds at Wisley for quite a long time,
1:40.5	especially had care of the waterly collection in front of the laboratory.
1:47.3	Now is a time of year when you don't actually have to do an awful lot of work in the pond, but it's a good time
1:53.6	to be just having a little tidy up sort of round the edges, just cut back all the old herbaceous growth that's sort of flopping into the
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