Episode 56: We preview the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As the pinnacle of the gardening calendar rapidly approaches, and build-up to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is underway, we take a behind-the-scenes peek and speak to a range of new and award-winning designers about their plans for this year. Show Garden designer Jo Thompson tells all about her sponsor’s garden, The Retreat for M and G Investments, we talk to 2014 BBC and RHS Chelsea People’s Choice winner Matt Keightley, as well as the youngest ever Chelsea design duo, the Rich Brothers. We also have the latest news on other Chelsea highlights, as well as reminders about this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and other gardening events across our 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.
0:06.4	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.
0:42.0	Hello and welcome back to the RHS gardening podcast.
0:48.0	Every fortnight, we bring you a mixture of features and discussions, exploring every aspect of gardening,
0:54.4	growing our own fruit and vegetables, plant care, pest control, garden design and container ideas,
0:59.9	plus expert seasonal advice on what you should be doing in your garden right now.
1:04.3	I'm Jenny Bowden, one of the RHS's team of horticultural advisors.
1:07.6	Show season is well and truly underway now.
1:10.3	And from the 19th to the 24th of May,
1:12.3	the highlight of the gardening calendar,
1:19.9	the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015 will be upon us. This year, as always, promises the pinnacle of garden design, enders inspiration and the fulfillment of gardening dreams. Coming up on this
1:26.2	podcast, we'll be hearing from some of this year's leading garden designers
1:30.1	as they tell us what they have in store for the greatest flower show in the world.
1:34.5	But first, shows are not all about big-name designers.
1:38.3	They're also the ideal place to get ideas and advice from the UK's leading nurseries.
1:43.6	So we caught up with some nursermen at the
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