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🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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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, |
0:21.6 | at an RHS garden near you. |
0:23.6 | Book tickets online for discounts, |
0:25.6 | plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds. |
0:28.6 | Did you recognise that sound? |
0:40.3 | Of course, it's the gardener's best friend, the robin. |
0:43.3 | A few sites are more iconic in the garden than a red-breasted robin, |
0:46.3 | cheerfully hopping at your feet on the lookout for worms. |
0:49.3 | Males and females look almost identical, |
0:51.3 | both wearing the signature fiery orange chest while they're young |
0:54.8 | sporting much more muted, speckled golden brown coat. I got to see this first hand this year |
1:00.1 | because I tamed a robin that lived in my garden. It was wonderful because the robins, when they're |
1:05.1 | feeding their young, they become really, really brave, they throw all caution out the window. |
1:08.8 | And if you've got mealworms suddenly, you're their best friend. And we had this Robin. It came and sat on my partner's head when I put a |
1:14.7 | mealworm on my partner's head. It came and ate out of my hand as well. And then the last time we |
1:19.5 | saw it, it came with its baby. It's lovely because Robbins, when the babies fledge, they get looked after for a day or two, and then they're on their own. |
1:28.0 | And so that was the very last time the Robin came to visit us on our patio table. |
1:31.8 | It bought this lovely sort of, yeah, a speckily golden brown baby that looked almost like a completely different species, but it was really lovely to see. |
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