Fabulous Florals: Lilies, Verbena bonariensis, and Flowering Dogwoods

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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It’s peak summer – a time when many of our flowers are flourishing, adorning our gardens with bright colours and sweet, rich fragrances. We’ve gone from nurturing our gardens to flipping the switch – sitting back and letting them fill us with joy. So, this week we’ve decided to celebrate that with an episode dedicated to flowers. Author and gardener Ben Dark will be explaining why Verbena bonariensis is our horticultural salt, writer and lily-lover Naomi Slade will be sharing her favourite Lilium varieties, and finally, botanist Barry Clarke will make the case for including flowering dogwoods in our gardens. Links: The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens Lilies: beautiful varieties for home and garden The Garden magazine Sir Harold Hillier Gardens

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.1	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.
0:31.7	It's finally summer, and for me, this is marked by Alistram areas.
0:36.6	There's an orange one that is very, very vigorous in my garden and very, very bright.
0:41.2	But the one that's really shining this year is called Peaches and Cream, which, as you might guess, is pink and creamy.
0:46.7	And it's looking really, really good.
0:49.0	Alstramiria is a great plant, so they're rather expensive to buy, but they last for years. And it's a plant that I'm going to grow a few more of, including in containers, because
0:57.0	it's a bit of a toughie as well.
0:58.0	I didn't think it would come through the winter, but I've been agreeably surprised.
1:02.0	But of course, it's not just Alstramirias that's caught my eye.
1:07.0	It's peak summer.
1:08.0	A time when many of our flowers are flourishing, adorning our gardens with bright colours and sweet rich fragrances.
1:15.6	We've gone from nurturing our gardens to flipping the switch, sitting back and letting them fill us with joy.
1:21.6	It's a happy time and we want to celebrate that. So this week we're taking a jaunt through a summer patch,
1:28.9	exploring some of our favourite jewels of the season.
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