Flying high

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week we meet Andrew Forsyth of Weasdale Nurseries in Cumbria who explains the challenges of gardening 850ft up in the hills of Cumbria, and shares tips on how to garden in cold and exposed situations. Kate Risely, head of pioneering research project Garden BirdWatch, explains what changes have been observed since the project launched in 1995. Plus RHS advisors share insight on epiphytic plants and how to encourage birds into your garden.

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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 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.
0:32.9	Today we're lifting our spirits by looking to the skies.
0:38.3	We're learning about which birds to look out for over the next few months
0:42.3	and exploring how to encourage them into our gardens.
0:45.3	I've got a very angry robin because there's obviously another robin
0:49.3	trying to mussel in on his territory, so he's going around puffing his chest out a lot at the minute.
0:55.1	So it's just lovely to watch, actually.
0:57.9	Gazing up into the treetops in the UK, you could spot robins, goldfinches or blue tits.
1:03.2	But in Mexico and South America, you might spy something altogether quite different.
1:08.3	It doesn't have any attachment to its host plant. It doesn't root into the soil
1:12.3	and it's not parasitic on its host plant so it doesn't get any nutrients from it or even any
1:17.3	water from it. We'll be reaching into the intriguing world of air plants. Welcome to
1:23.3	Gardening with the RHS. I'm Fiona Davison. Now to an area nestled snugly between two famous parts of
1:38.3	the UK landscape, the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales. We're heading 850 feet up in Cumbria's Howgill Fells.
1:47.2	Weistale Nurseries offer over a thousand different
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