Get RHS cash to fund your gardening adventure, a Wisley walkabout, helping hedgehogs and more (Ep 138)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever dreamed of travelling to distant lands to see and study plants in their native habitats? Or perhaps you'd like to grow your knowledge in other ways? An RHS bursary may be able to help. Past recipients share their stories of travels to Portugal and the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Closer to home, Matt Pottage gives an update on the latest in RHS Garden Wisley's multimillion-pound redevelopment, we head to Harlow Carr for tips on helping hedgehogs. Plus news on the Big Soup Share from the RHS Campaign for School Gardening. 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.
0:06.4	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.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:31.5	Hello again, you're listening to the RHS gardening podcast.
0:35.9	Today's edition is jam-packed with information, ideas and gardening adventures.
0:41.6	I'm Jenny Bowden, one of the horticultural advisors here at RHS Gardens, Wisley and Surrey.
0:47.6	It's been a wonderfully busy few weeks here with the end of the school holidays rush
0:51.6	and our spectacular annual flower show.
0:54.3	This year we were honoured to have the presence of passionate garden lover Dame Judy Dench.
0:59.2	Matthew Potage gave her a tour of the garden.
1:04.8	Well, we've had a very, very busy week or two now, actually.
1:08.3	We had all the preparation for the flower show.
1:12.8	A lovely flower show happened and we're just recovering the garden and repairing the lawns and everything afterwards and it's a
1:18.7	brilliant event for us in in late summer we welcomed over 50 nurseries which we shoehorn in on the seven acres
1:26.5	lawns and the national Daily Society do a big
1:29.6	kind of end of year show, which is always absolutely breathtaking. And then we have big floral
1:35.7	arrangement displays as well. And as ever, it was just a great place to come for the plantsperson,
1:42.1	just for a great day out and we were really really lucky to
1:45.1	welcome dame judy dench to open the show this year she is a big gardener herself and a big tree lover as
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