Gardening for good, repairing lawns, tips on growing dahlias, roses, damsons and more (Ep 139)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

If you go down to the shops today, you're in for a big surprise. If you live in Sheerwater, Surrey, that is - where a new community garden is taking root as a result of an innovative new partnership between community groups, the RHS, local councils and the HLF*. Plus our Gardening Advice team gather to untangle a postbag bulging with horticultural heartaches including questions on dahlias, damsons, roses, hydrangeas, sweetcorn and more. For more info and useful links see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	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 16s of five pounds.
0:34.1	Dalyas, damsons and damaged lawns.
0:37.1	Yes, you're listening to the RHS Gardening Podcast.
0:40.3	After a summer break from problem solving, today our expert panel are delving back into the mailbag to tackle some of your thorny gardening questions.
0:49.3	Plus, after a summer of extremes, we've got some first aid tips for grass and lawns that have been battered by drought and flood.
1:05.5	But before we address the problems, let's hear a report from a summer success story.
1:16.6	Across the UK, the RHS Community Outreach team work with groups and disadvantaged areas to bring people together in projects that create and maintain communal garden spaces.
1:21.6	Our aim is to help more people share in the benefits of plants.
1:25.6	This summer saw the culmination of an exciting
1:28.9	project to create a new garden at the Shearwater Estate in Woking. My name is Eddie Valletta and I work
1:35.2	for Mascot, which is short for the Maybury's Shearwater Community Trust. The garden idea came
1:40.0	about through a group called Shearwater together, which is formed of statutory groups, now
1:45.9	Wisley Gardens and other people, local residents, to just allow the community to meet, to connect,
1:52.4	to build friendships, and hopefully that will be a lasting thing. And the gardening project is
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