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Gardening with the RHS

Episode 37: Bonsai, dragon quests and your gardening questions answered

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The RHS Gardening Advice team are on hand to answer your seasonal gardening questions including: • How do I deal with a problem honeysuckle? • Why isn’t my perennial poppy flowering? • How should I care for an apple tree grown from a pip? We also have a special feature on bonsai with expert growing tips from the Mendip Bonsai Studio in Wales and some key advice from Wisley Garden Manager Matthew Pottage on watering throughout the summer months. We have news of forthcoming RHS Garden events including The Great Garden Quest, sponsored by Witan Investment Trust - a summer-long family adventure featuring sword-fighting and dragons across the four RHS Gardens.

Transcript

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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.

0:40.7

Hello and welcome back to the RHS gardening podcast. Hello, and welcome back to the RHS gardening podcast.

0:45.8

Every fortnight we bring you a mixture of features and discussions exploring every aspect of gardening,

0:51.4

plant care, growing your own fruit and vegetables, garden design, pest control and container ideas.

0:54.6

Plus, expert seasonal advice on what you should be doing in your garden right now. I'm Tony Dickerson, one of the team of horticultural advisors based here

0:58.9

at the RHS Garden Whistley and Surrey. Coming up in this August edition, we meet the experts

1:04.4

to find out about the beautiful Japanese art of bonsai, inspiration for summer activities

1:08.8

for families across the UK, including garden art, dragons and sword fighting workshops.

1:14.2

And, as always, advise on seasonal tasks to tackle in your garden.

1:18.7

But first, as regular listeners will know, once a month on the RHS Gardening podcast, members of the advisory team answer your gardening questions from around the UK.

1:32.3

So let's join my colleagues in the advice office to hear some of the queries that have been sent in this month. My name is Rob Sterling and I'm one of the horticultural advisors here at Wissly.

1:36.3

My name is Guy Barta and I'm on the horticultural advice team here at Wisley.

1:40.3

Polly Wiltshire has written him about her honeysuckle.

1:43.3

She's planted two of them, different honeysuckles, side by side. One's thriving and all's looking good, but the other, the leaves, are yellowing and they've got black spots on the lower parts of the plant. And Mrs Wiltshire is understandably puzzled about what's going on here.

2:03.0

Well, certainly the yellowing of the leaves, especially on honeysuckle, black spots.

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