Episode 61: Highlights from the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and Greening Grey Britain

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast we visit the 2015 RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and hear highlights from the showground as we celebrate Hampton’s 25th Anniversary. We also have news on how you can get involved in a major new RHS campaign ‘Greening Grey Britain’ and our RHS Advisors are on hand to answer your seasonal gardening questions including: • Growing marrows • Advice on trees growing close to buildings • How to propagate clematis We also have the latest news on summer 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 add an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:42.2	Hello and welcome back to the RHS gardening podcast.
0:48.2	Every fortnight, we bring you a mixture of features and discussions exploring every aspect of gardening.
0:49.3	Plant care, garden design, pest control, growing your own fruit and vegetables and container ideas,
0:55.9	plus expert garden advice throughout the year.
0:59.2	I'm Jenny Bowden, one of the RHS's team of horticultural advisors, based here at RHS Garden,
1:05.6	Wisley and Surrey.
1:07.1	Coming up in this July edition, a look at some of the highlights of this year's RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, which marked its 25th anniversary in 2015.
1:18.1	RHS advisors answer your seasonal gardening questions, and as always, the latest news on RHS garden events across the UK.
1:27.6	But first, the 2015 RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
1:33.3	This year was an extra special year as 2015 saw the show celebrating its 25th anniversary.
1:40.4	My name's Dave Green and we're at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show on a sunny day
1:46.8	and it's 25th anniversary year. We've got more gardens than we've had in quite a few years
1:51.3	and the standard of the gardens, the effort, the landscapers and the designers and growers have all
1:56.6	put in a really incredible and in some of the marquise the displays especially the rose
2:02.1	marquee and the floral marquee are probably some of the best we've seen here for quite a few years so
2:06.7	to celebrate the anniversary we've created an anniversary maze to link to the palace's maze
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