Gardening trends for 2020, houseplant rampage and gardening with sight loss

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week our resident gardening guru Guy Barter gazes into his crystal ball to make some predictions for the year ahead in horticulture, before heading to the Glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley to come face to face with some very naughty houseplants. So naughty in fact that they've taken over an entire Victorian house, elbowing the human occupants aside in a verdant invasion that's sure to delight visitors. Garden Manager Emma Allen braves the bristling bromeliads and chess-playing cacti to take Guy round this quirky new attraction. Plus part two of our visit to gardening charity Thrive, who help people with disabilities or ill health to keep on gardening. Training, Consultancy & Education Manager Damien Newman gives useful advice on ways to garden when sight loss becomes an issue.

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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 add an RHS garden near you.
0:23.6	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:33.6	Hello and welcome back to the RHS gardening podcast.
0:40.5	Coming up today, shocking scenes in the glass house here at Wisley
0:43.8	as giant house plants appear to be staging a kudatat.
0:47.7	Plus, we'll be returning to Reading to visit the charity Thrive,
0:51.7	who have been working with garden lovers affected by sight loss.
0:55.5	They've identified simple but incredibly effective techniques to help gardeners with sight loss continue to garden.
1:02.5	These ideas promise real hope to thousands of people that visual impairment need not be an impairment for pursuing a love of gardening.
1:17.8	Music need not be an impairment for pursuing a love of gardening. But first, are you on trend? I'm Guy Barta, Chief Horticulturist here at the RHS.
1:25.0	This afternoon I'm sitting in a nice warm office here at WISley while outside
1:29.0	a winter storm lashes down with gusts of wind and pouring rain. I'd like to stay here all afternoon,
1:35.0	but instead I'm going to take you on a walk round the gardens here at RHS Wisley. We're going to
1:40.6	start off in the fruit glass house where we grow our vines and fig collection,
1:45.0	and then on to the plant centre, here at Whistley, where we sell an amazing range of plants
1:50.0	before finishing up at the new display that's being assembled in the glasshouse range.
1:55.0	In my role, I've always got my eye on changing patterns in the world of gardening,
2:00.0	and my ear to the issues
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