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Gardening with the RHS

Episode 89: How to grow camellias in pots, dealing with trees near to buildings, apples and taking cuttings

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The RHS Advice team answer listeners' questions on camelias, acers and caring for trees that are close to buildings; plus we have seasonal advice on apples and an expert guide to propagating tender perennials. Plus an update on late summer events 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.

0:05.0

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 16s at five pounds.

0:42.4

Hello and welcome to a blazing summer edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast.

0:47.0

I'm Guy Bata, the chief horticulturist at the Royal Horticultural Society.

0:53.0

As regular listeners will know, in these podcasts, we bring you features exploring every aspect of gardening,

0:56.8

plus seasonal advice from RHS experts throughout the year.

0:59.3

And this edition is jam-packed,

1:03.0

with practical topical advice about plant care, propagation,

1:06.3

and key jobs to tackle in the garden right now.

1:11.4

Plus, as always, we have details of RHS gardening events around the UK.

1:16.4

What I love about this time of year is that the real work is over for the year and to a very large extent you can take it easy and enjoy the fruits of the preceding labour.

1:21.6

It's true that mowing, watering, feeding, deadheading and harvesting still need to be done

1:25.7

but with the days short shortening the night's cooling

1:28.1

the sun lower in the sky plants are really growing much more slowly than they were in june and july

1:33.6

and indeed they're under less stress at last a tempo of the garden drops off and i can take what i feel is

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