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Gardening with the RHS

Gardening Q & A, houseplant favourites

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

What flowers can you grow for a September wedding? How do you tame a wisteria that's got a bit too involved with an apple tree? What's the best way to propagate snowdrops? Can you save climbers when replacing a rotten fence? Our team of experts gathers together to solve your gardening questions. Plus, advice on xylella, a major new plant disease; and we continue our mini-series on houseplants as Jane Perrone, Matthew Pottage and Anne Swithinbank share their personal favourites and offer tips on how to care for them.

Transcript

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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 16 to five pounds.

0:36.2

Hello and welcome to a February edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast.

0:41.1

I'm Guy Barta, chief horticulturist here at the RHS.

0:47.5

Today, there's advice on growing cucumbers for pickling and snowdrop propagation,

0:53.5

plus seasonal tips on key jobs to do in your

0:56.5

garden this month.

1:01.5

Let's kick off today's podcast with a visit to the advisory team to tackle some of your

1:10.5

gardening questions.

1:13.2

Hello, I'm Lee Hunt. I'm Principal Horticultural Advisor. My name's James Lawrence. I work

1:18.5

alongside Lee, a senior advisor at RHS Whistling. I'm Jenny Bowden, and I am one of the

1:23.8

horticultural advisors also at RHS Garden Wisley. Right, we snuck up the stairs in the laboratory building to one of the horticultural advisors, also at RHS Garden Whistling. Right, we snuck up the stairs in the

1:29.5

laboratory building to one of the offices on this fine, sunny February day, which we're really

1:35.0

enjoying seeing all the flowers that are beginning to pop out. But we're here to answer some of your

1:39.9

questions, and we've got a whole load of them that are coming through email and Twitter and we're

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