Episode 45: Seasonal advice, troubleshooting plant diseases and choosing gardening gifts for Christmas

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2014

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We hear seasonal advice from the team at RHS Garden Wisley gardening team including: • Hedge trimming • Tree planting • Dealing with worm casts Geoff Denton from the RHS Plant Pathology team discusses diseases that may prevail this winter and Chief Horticultural Advisor Leigh Hunt selects his range of Christmas gift ideas from the Wisley Plant Centre. We also have all the latest news in up-coming events across the four RHS Gardens.

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0:55.4	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. Plus, expert seasonal advice on what you should be doing in your garden right now. I'm Tony Dickerson, one of the RHS team of horticulture advisors.
1:00.7	Coming up in this edition, a visit to the brand new Chile and Glade here at the RHS Garden
1:04.7	Wisely and Surrey, inspired ideas for Christmas gifts for garden lovers, and as always, the latest news on RHS garden events across the UK.
1:14.3	But first, let's hear what jobs gardeners can be tackling in the next few weeks.
1:22.6	So my name's Matthew Potage and I'm deputy curator here at RHS Garden Wisley.
1:27.4	One thing we're starting and I've
1:28.9	been eyeballing a few of our victims to start work on and that's some of the overgrown slightly
1:35.2	out of proportion hedges. And what that is is some of the deciduous hedges like some of the beach
1:40.6	the hornbeams in particular where we're Wisley, that have just, you know,
1:45.8	years and years have been clipped. They're gradually got bit bigger every year. And some of these
1:50.1	are now blocking sight lines or they're just becoming unwieldy and difficult to cut the tops in the
1:55.5	summer. So we're going to go in quite hard with our little folding saws. And we're just going to do one half of the hedge. We're going to let it then recover and we're going to go in quite hard with our little folding sores and we're just going to do one half of the hedge.
2:02.4	We're going to let it then recover and we're going to do the other face of it the following winter.
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