Episode 36: Allotment advice and inspiration, and great high-summer flowering plants to try in your garden

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Experts at RHS Flower Show Tatton share inspiring ideas and advice for managing and maintaining allotments, and we have expert advice on what you should be doing in your garden right now. Also hear a selection of Award of Garden Merit plants of the month suggested by The Garden magazine’s Phil Clayton. We speak to this year’s finalists in the RHS Young Designer of The Year competition as well as their mentor, designer Paul Hervey Brookes at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2014, on until 27 July, and show manager Kris Hulewicz gives us his guide to the show’s four zones - Escape, Grow, Inspire and Feast. In addition we have the latest events across all four RHS Gardens.

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	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.
0:17.4	Booth.
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.
0:23.7	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16s at five pounds.
0:41.3	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, growing your own fruit and vegetables, plant care, pest control, garden design and container ideas.
0:53.7	Plus expert seasonal advice on what you should be doing in your garden right now.
0:58.6	I'm Sean Thomas, Garden Visits editor of the RHS Monthly magazine for members, The Garden.
1:04.3	Coming up in this edition, inspiring allotment ideas taken from the RHS Flower Show,
1:09.1	Tatton Park 2014, which is running from 23rd to the 27th of July.
1:14.2	Interviews with the winner of the RHS Young Designer of the Year 2014 competition and designer
1:19.5	Paul Harvey Brooks, who's been mentoring this year's finalists.
1:23.3	Our pick of top performing seasonal plants and, as always always the latest news on RHS summer events
1:28.9	across the UK. But first let's find out what jobs gardeners can be tackling this month.
1:34.2	My name is Matthew Biggs and here's a couple of tips for you, things that you should be doing
1:37.9	in your garden. One is to keep mowing the lawn regularly. The grass is growing very quickly at the
1:43.0	moment particularly with these
1:44.2	sudden periods of rain. So keep mowing. Mowing it regularly a little and often will make sure
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