Greening the Grey: Wisteria, Vertical Gardening, and the Sounds of London’s Trees

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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For this week’s show, we’re delving into the natural world of cities – looking at how best to grow our favourite plants with limited space and to treasure the diverse flora and fauna of our cityscapes. Author Ben Dark shares his love for the wisteria embellishing urban front gardens. Urban farmer Alessandro Vitale – you might know him as Spicy Moustache — takes us through all his tips and tricks for growing vertically in whatever space you’ve got. And, author and amateur urban naturalist, Bob Gilbert, gives his thoughts on the sounds of London’s trees. But that’s not all – we’re ending the show with a touching tribute from Daisy Payne on what she’s doing in honour of Celebration Day on 28 May. Links: Rebel Gardening: A Beginner’s Handbook To Organic Urban Gardening The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish “The Susurration of Trees” BBC Radio 4 programme Make the most of your urban garden

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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.
0:35.0	I think one of Wisteria's very special abilities is the way it clothes and gives dignity and mystery
0:45.0	to a house.
0:46.5	When I moved there, it was bare concrete, nothing else, not even a single break laid down. So straight away I had some sort of a vision,
0:57.0	and I envisioned how I could turn it into a productive space.
1:01.0	I thought that urban wildlife needed some sort of champion of its own,
1:06.0	and I guess that's in a way what I set out to be.
1:11.6	As more and more of us flock to cities and live ever closer together, it's becoming rarer
1:16.1	to have a garden, let alone a space big enough to hold all of our lofty plant dreams.
1:21.6	But of course there's always room to grow, we've just got to get crafty about it.
1:26.6	So for this week's show we're delving into the natural world of cities, looking at how best to grow, we've just got to get crafty about it. So for this week's show, we're delving into the
1:28.6	natural world of cities, looking at how best to grow our favorite plants with limited space
1:33.6	and to treasure the diverse flora and fauna of our cityscapes. Author Ben Dark will share his
1:40.9	love for the wisteria, embellishing urban front gardens.
1:45.6	Urban farmer, Alessandro Vitale, who you might know as spicy moustache from his presence
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