Gardening's best-kept secrets

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This week we're unwrapping lots of gardening goodness, from expert seasonal advice and untold stories to wildlife tips. Nursery owner and plantswoman Claire Austin shares inside information on what the people who produce plants for our gardens are doing at this time of year (it's much more than you might think!); Zehra Zaidi tells the little-known story of John Ystumllyn, an 18th century African gardener in North Wales and Helen Bostock heads into the undergrowth to share tips on how to help hedgehogs in your garden.

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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 at an RHS garden near you, let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can,
0:22.1	at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:33.5	This is Gardening with the RHS.
0:40.3	I'm Guy Barter.
0:46.3	A sound you're hearing is coming from an animal that's hard to spot in British gardens, the hedgehog.
0:53.3	They're not of a spot in British gardens for hedgehog.
1:01.9	They're not often seen these days and have become alarmingly scarce.
1:07.6	In fact, hedgehog numbers have plummeted by half in the UK countryside since the year 2000, according to the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.
1:11.6	Seeing one is like something of a gardening miracle.
1:19.6	Shortly, we'll be exploring what we can do as gardeners to protect our prickly neighbours.
1:26.6	Also coming up in today's show,
1:29.6	we'll be kicking off a new series celebrating some of horticulture's unsung heroes
1:34.4	and discovering how nursery owners are busy preparing plants ready for spring. But back to hedgehogs.
1:42.3	As gardeners, we have a big opportunity to support these snuffly creatures.
1:47.0	I spoke to Helen Bostock, our resident wildlife expert and co-author of How Can I Help Hedgehogs for some advice.
1:58.0	You might not know if you've got hedgehogs locally, but there's definitely a few things that you can do to encourage them,
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