Exclusive Chelsea preview, plant encounters and seasonal advice (Ep121: Jan 2018)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We visit the press launch for 2018's Chelsea Flower Show to discover the exciting gardens in store this year. Our trusty team of gardening experts answers questions on how to dig safely, keeping potted Christmas trees alive, whether you can grow houseplants in dark rooms, and what to do about a lawn that keeps dying. Plus botanist James Armitage unearths more horticultural histories in his latest Wisley Plant Encounter ( see www.rhs.org.uk/wisleyplantencounters ).

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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.
0:42.4	Hello and welcome back to the Royal Horticultural Society's gardening podcast.
0:44.1	I'm Guy Barta.
0:47.8	In today's podcast, we're pushing aside the January gloom to hear about some exciting plans for this year's Chelsea Flower Show.
0:52.0	We joined the masked ranks of the UK's horticultural media
0:56.0	to learn about some of the designers inspirational visions for this year's show gardens.
1:01.9	Stay tuned for exclusive interviews with multiple RHS medal winner Matt Keatley and
1:07.6	Baroness Fluella Benjamin. Plus, we'll be sorting through our advice team mailbox to hear some of the gardening problems
1:15.7	that have been vexing you this year.
1:18.0	But first, botanist James Armitage continues his series of portraits of some of the more unusual
1:24.3	plants in Wisley's collections.
1:26.8	Surely one of the reasons that dinosaurs
1:28.7	continue to exert such a powerful force on our collective imagination is their differentness.
1:33.3	How alien and strange to conjure in the mind a world populated in inconceivable diversity
1:39.5	by creatures clad not in fur, but in scales. Similarly, as the chameleas bravely boasts their brazen blossom and the first snowdrops shoulder
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Royal Horticultural Society, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Royal Horticultural Society and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.