Fern frenzy

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week's programme is dedicated to perhaps the quintessential foliage plant, the fern. Firstly, garden designer Danny Clarke shares his love of the majestic tree fern, Dicksonia antarctica. Then we head into the dark and mysterious Stumpery at RHS Garden Rosemoor to meet a magnificent cast of ferns luxuriating in the cool, moist conditions there. Author and journalist Richard Mabey explores a fern frenzy that swept Victorian Britain, the catchily-named Pteridomania. And finally, RHS horticultural advisor Jenny Bowden offers hints and tips on how to get the best out of ferns in your garden.

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0:30.1	So I'm just standing in this dumpery now.
0:33.1	It's quite a damp morning and it's sort of adding the atmosphere to the space.
0:38.3	I'm Fiona Davison and welcome to gardening with the RHS.
0:42.3	We begin today in a dark and shady spot in North Devon.
0:47.3	Meet David Perry, a garden manager at RHS Garden Rosemore.
0:52.3	That stumpery he's describing is home to some particularly prehistoric looking foliage.
0:58.4	The ferns have all got really sort of glistening miniature bubbles on their foliage of little
1:05.9	raindrops. I've just seen a shrew that's just carried through a couple of stumps there
1:10.9	and into a big clump of bamboo.
1:13.1	So quite alive with wildlife because it's so, so quiet in here.
1:18.4	We'll be returning to David in Rosemore later in the programme
1:21.5	because today's show is all about ferns.
1:25.6	These shade-loving, intricate plants have not only inspired gardeners, but
1:30.3	have also worked their way into everything from furniture to fashion. We'll be hearing
1:35.6	why Victorian England was gripped by a fern frenzy and exploring how to make them stand
1:41.2	out in your own garden.
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