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Gardening with the RHS

Giant leaves and tiny trees

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

From lush and leafy banana plants to the delicate charms of the tiniest trees of all, this week's show is all about planting with a difference. We explore the weird, wild and wonderful Exotic Garden at Wisley, which is packed full of tropical-looking plants and ideas to steal for your own backyard paradise. Tayshan Hayden-Smith, footballer and founder of the non-profit Grow2Know tells the story of how he came to discover and love what's probably the most dramatic plant you can grow outdoors in Britain. And if you've ever wished you could grow a tree but don't have the space, think again, as we take a look at bonsai with RHS expert Peter Goodchild.

Transcript

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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.

0:29.6

Recently I've been getting very excited about growing bedding plants from seed.

0:36.6

So I sewed some easy ones that grow well

0:38.9

at low temperatures because I haven't quite finished my greenhouse heating system yet. And I went for

0:43.7

Galardias, which are a lovely daisy flower. And most exciting of all, poor man's orchid or Shizanthus.

0:50.1

I haven't grown Shazanthus before. You'd have thought I would after all these years,

0:53.4

but I'm very impressed at how well it's grown, and the beautiful flowers have been going on

0:58.2

and on from an early stage, and it needed very little heat to grow. You'd have thought after all

1:02.5

these years I'd have tried everything, but no, I haven't. That's the joy of gardening. There's

1:06.6

always more to find out. And in today's show, we're exploring just that, the joy of pushing ourselves to try out

1:16.2

exciting planting and styles in the garden, from getting the jungle look with lush

1:21.1

exotic foliage to the delicate precision of growing miniature trees in pots.

1:27.3

I'm Guy Barta and welcome to the now award-winning

1:30.8

gardening with the RHS. Coming up, we're learning all about the art of bonsai, taking a stroll among

1:41.9

the palm trees in RHS Wisley's exotic garden and hearing why the banana plant is

1:47.4

special for one gardener but before all that let's start at wizzley my name's emma allen and i'm the

1:57.6

garden manager here for formal and decorative display so i'm sitting in a corner of the exotic garden surrounded by bananas looking out at palm trees

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