Green power: how gardening changes lives behind bars, top 10 plant diseases and a new order at Wisley (Ep 151)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week we meet the staff and inmates at HMP Hull and discover how a prison garden has helped transform lives behind bars. Last year the prison's horticultural achievements won them the coveted Windlesham Trophy, an RHS award for the best prison garden. Meanwhile back at RHS Garden Wisley we meet pathologist Matthew Cromey who shares advice on the top 10 plant diseases reported to our gardening advice service last year. And finally, entomologist Andy Salisbury introduces a new kind of insect that marks the first new 'order' to be found in the UK in over a century.

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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. In today's RHS gardening podcast, we explore how changing climatic conditions
0:42.9	are influencing the diseases that attack our plants, and we introduce a new arrival at RHS Garden
0:49.6	Wisley, the first for 100 years. Real spring is just around the corner with the start of April.
0:57.0	March still froze back to winter and can be cold and wet,
0:59.9	but we're just looking for April showers now,
1:02.7	warm weather, warm nights, get the plants growing
1:05.4	and the opportunity to start planting and sewing in earnest
1:08.4	as the gardening season kicks off.
1:14.6	I'm Guy Barta, chief horticulturist here at the RHS.
1:20.6	First, a look at an award-winning garden in East Yorkshire. Her Majesty's Prison Hull was awarded the Windlesham Trophy for the best prison garden in 2018, with, as the judges said, their outstanding performance.
1:32.3	The trophy is a polished brass bell from a former Green Goddess fire engine,
1:37.3	and the award was introduced in 1984 by Lord Windlesham, head of the parole board,
1:43.3	as a way of recognising the positive impact
1:46.2	of gardening on prisoners. Tended by a team of over 20, the gardens are used for rehabilitation
1:52.6	and training, growing food and a range of other activities for communities, both inside the prison
1:58.9	and out. It is a prime example of the power of gardening to
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