Greener Containers, Plant Name Changes, and Chaenomeles

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Garden designer and writer Ann Treneman shares ideas from her new book RHS Greener Gardening: Containers, explaining how you can create sustainable ecosystems whatever size your space. Jenny Laville speaks with RHS botanist James Armitage to untangle taxonomy, and discuss why plant names keep changing. And Gareth Richards meets David Ford, the holder of the National Plant Collection of Chaenomeles in Surrey, to talk about his love affair with the plant and why they’re due a mainstream revival. Presenter: Guy Barter Contributors: Ann Treneman, Jenny Laville, James Armitage, Gareth Richards, David Ford Contact: [email protected] Links: Greener Gardening Containers RHS Plant Finder Plant Heritage: National Plant Collections

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.1	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance.
0:09.3	The scenery changes many times in one season and our finest trees will happily play the part of...
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0:21.6	It's the greatest show in Earth.
0:23.7	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:32.8	Do you know your taxer?
0:34.8	You have species, which is quite specific.
0:37.0	Janus, which is a bit more of a loose
0:39.2	conglomeration, and then you have families which are even broader and have some characters in
0:44.3	common. The difference between a species, a genus and a family can sometimes get confusing,
0:49.5	especially when plant names seem like they're changing more than ever before. Is it a policy that the new names have to be longer than the previous ones?
0:57.4	Is that somebody decided that?
0:59.0	I do admit that it seems that something nice and easy to say,
1:03.0	it becomes something absolutely tongue-twistingly terrible to say.
1:07.0	Take the recent cases of things like Hebe's and Veronica's, for example, or even common rosemary,
1:12.6	being moved into the genus Salvia, swapping its scientific name from Rosmarinus Oficionalis to Salvia Rosmarinus.
1:20.6	Well, if you've ever felt perplexed about why these changes are happening,
1:25.6	or have wondered what gardeners have to gain,
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