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Gardening with the RHS

Episode 50: Celebratory clips from Alan Titchmarsh, Mary Berry and Colin Crosbie, plus pruning wisteria, winter tips and a chance to win show tickets

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate the 50th episode of the RHS Gardening Podcasts with some of our favourite moments from the archives, including words of horticultural wisdom from the likes of gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh, baking queen and keen RHS Member Mary Berry and Curator of RHS Garden Wisley Colin Crosbie. We also have topical seasonal advice for what you should be doing in your garden right now including: • How to prune wisteria • Tips on dealing with winter winds and snow. • The RHS advice team answer your latest gardening questions PLUS: latest news on Winter events across our four RHS Gardens, and your chance to win a pair of tickets worth £70 to this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.

Transcript

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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 16 to five pounds.

0:42.0

Hello and welcome to the 50th episode of the RHS Gardening Podcast.

0:47.0

Every fortnight for the last two years, we've been bringing you a varied mixture of features and discussions exploring every aspect of gardening.

0:50.4

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

0:56.4

Each of our 50 additions has been full of up-to-date, expert horticultural advice and information

1:01.3

to help you in your garden. The podcast team has brought you tours of RHS gardens, reports

1:07.0

from behind the scenes at the biggest RHS flower and plant shows and interviews with some of the most influential names in gardening.

1:14.5

I started in 1964 as an apprentice in the parks department in Ilklee in Yorkshire

1:17.9

and the RHS said, how about celebrating 50 years of Britain in Bloom?

1:24.6

Because Britain in Bloom was going 50 years and your your 50 years in articulture by doing a garden at Chelsea, not in the medal stakes, as it were, but as an exhibit

1:34.1

for the RHS. I thought, oh, I don't know, I don't do that anymore. The last one I did, I did,

1:39.0

I did get a gold medal. It was in 1985. That's 29 years ago. It's a long time ago. And I thought about it because I'm not

1:45.8

doing the broadcasting this year for the BBC. I thought, well, I quite fancy it really. It's

1:50.6

rather exciting. So I got together with Kate Gould, who's a garden designer and between us with

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