Gardening highlights from 2024

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today Guy, Gareth, and Jenny reflect on the past twelve months of beautiful blooms and bountiful harvests, but also wet weather and guzzling gastropods! Join us as we revisit some of our favourite stories from 2024, and share what garden tips and seasonal advice we’re taking with us into the new year. Hosts: Gareth Richards, Guy Barter, Jenny Laville Episodes mentioned: Dr Hayley Jones discussing slugs from episode ‘Critter camaraderie: Slugs, Snails, and Guerilla Gardening Tales’ Gareth Richards and James Armitage take a walk through Chelsea from episode ‘Notes on hardiness’ James Lawrence and the sustainable planting combinations from episode ‘Sustainable plant combos, GYO tips (for tomatoes, beetroot, squash), flowering shrubs’ Jassy Drakulic on encouraging mycorrhizal relationships in your soil, from episode ‘Compost, fungi, and giant vegetables’ Anya Lautenbach’s money saving advice from episode ‘Growing on a budget’ Additional Links: Become an RHS member

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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.
0:23.6	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.6	Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:32.6	2024 is almost as a close.
0:34.6	Our gardens have experienced 12 months of transformation.
0:38.8	They've been paid by wet weather and slug infestations,
0:41.8	and if you're lucky, rewarded you with beautiful blooms and bountiful harvests.
0:47.1	It's been a year jam-packed with new growth, and to help me make sense of it all,
0:51.4	today I'm joined by fellow hosts of Gardening with the RHS, Guy Barta and Jenny Leville.
0:56.0	Hello!
0:57.0	Thank you for inviting me, Gareth.
0:59.0	Now unfortunately for me, guzzling gastropods were a big feature of my garden this year,
1:05.0	so much so that they became something of a mascot of 2024. They're such a understudied and underloved group of animals, and they're very fascinating.
1:21.6	And there's just so many gaps in our knowledge.
1:24.6	There's so many questions that could be answered about them and I've
1:28.0	really genuinely grown to love them and their funny little tentacaly faces.
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