Getting arty with weird and wonderful plants, lockdown veg part two

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Lots of us are drawing on creative pastimes as a way of getting through the current situation. This week we speak to artist, scientist, author and Deputy Director of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Dr Chris Thorogood. Chris shares his fascination with weird and wonderful plants and offers some expert tips on how to paint and draw them. Fiona Davison explores the history of botanical art at what is generally considered the world's biggest collection of plant paintings, the RHS Lindley Library. Young RHS Ambassador George Hassall is also a fan of plants that bite back, and he tells us about his passion for the gruesomely beautiful pitcher plants, Nepenthes. And finally... our resident allotment guru Guy Barter talks to gardening advisor Leigh Hunt about cunning ways to beat seed shortages and grow your own at home.

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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.
0:32.3	Last Saturday was a very important date in the horticultural calendar.
0:37.4	World Naked Gardening Day.
0:43.3	Plant enthusiasts around the world celebrated the human body and nature by tending to their gardens in the buff.
0:50.3	Two gardeners who bared all were presenter Michael Perry, also known as Mr Plant Geek, and Kirsty Ward,
0:58.0	who runs the hugely popular Instagram and blog My Little Allotment.
1:03.5	I think for me, World Naked Gardening Day is something that's really fun. It's quite liberating.
1:10.2	I actually got involved for charity about six years ago.
1:13.6	We were raising money for Perennial, which is the Royal Gardener's Bonelven Society.
1:18.6	And I think the first thing we did was a cheeky photo shoot at the Kensington Roof Gardens down in London.
1:26.6	I have issues with my body and my appearance, as, you know, everyone does.
1:32.8	But this is just a time to sort of go outside and celebrate and just forget things a little bit and not worry.
1:41.8	And I think that's what gardening on a whole is, you know, for me,
1:46.8	is to, you know, forget all those worries and be happy.
1:50.3	So why not celebrate it by doing something so fun and getting involved with the community?
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