From Rainforests to Garden Borders: Nature’s Wild Edges

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week, we journey into one of Britain’s rarest and most magical landscapes — the temperate rainforest. Designer Zoe Claymore joins us to reveal how she captured the enchanted atmosphere of these ancient woodlands at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and how you can recreate that wild, mossy magic at home. Then, we turn our attention to a true British garden staple: the hedge. Photographer Gareth Gardner shares what he discovered after receiving over 500 submissions from around the world for his new exhibition On The Hedge, now opening at RHS Garden Wisley. Plus, Gareth Richards is here with practical advice on planning ahead with tips on sowing biennials, and Guy Barter shares what he’s been up to in his own garden. A lush, leafy episode not to be missed. Host: Guy Barter Contributors: Zoe Claymore, Gareth Gardner, Gareth Richards Links: British Temperate Rainforest - British Wildlife Trusts British Rainforest - How to Guide Lindley Late - Urban Gardening Club: Balconies, Pots and Patios On The Hedge exhibition at RHS Wisley

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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.
0:42.3	If I close my eyes and I go back to the forest of my childhood, I think the first thing that you will get and you will feel is just the sheer kind of ancientness.
0:48.3	I don't know how to explain it, except for the fact that everything will be gnarly, everything will be old.
0:53.3	You will get that sense of shade instantly because you get that high tree cover,
0:59.0	so you'll feel cool.
1:00.0	And it will not just feel cool, but it will feel humid,
1:02.0	because these places are absolutely nothing without water.
1:06.0	Little, little teardrops.
1:08.0	Right the way through to cascades of waters, you always in this place will inevitably
1:12.5	either reach the sea or you'll reach a river. You're here amazing birds. You'll probably also hear
1:21.7	the rustle of wind through things like the ferns and bracken at the tops. You'll see green, you'll see ancient gnarly trees,
1:30.3	you'll see water, you'll see stone, you'll see moss. And I think one of the things about walking through
1:37.6	a temperate woodland, I walked through the dark valley in January, was just how green it was,
1:43.8	even in January.
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