Grow your own kisses

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week's programme is bursting with seasonal greenery. Award-winning writer and RHS blogger Graham Rice explains how to grow a Yuletide favourite and one of our most mysterious native plants – mistletoe. Then we hop 'over the pond' for the latest in our Hidden Horticulturists series to explore the life of one of the 20th century's greatest botanists: holly expert Dr Shiu-Ying Hu. Meanwhile back at RHS Garden Wisley, Verity Batyll describes her favourite plants to brighten up winter gardens, and Devon-based food writer Mark Diacono shares his personal recipe for a delicious homegrown lemon verbena cocktail. For links to more info please see our show notes or visit rhs.org.uk/podcast

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	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.
0:14.7	The best hiding place ever.
0:17.4	Booth.
0:18.2	Put your day out of dreams in the hands of the experts.
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.
0:31.0	This Christmas...
0:33.8	There's a big ball of green in the tree.
0:36.9	It's evergreen. Contin continually branching mass of stems.
0:41.3	You, me, and mistletoe.
0:44.3	The whole clump is usually about two feet across maximum.
0:48.3	Sometimes you see them as big as a meter.
0:50.3	Each stem produces two shoots each year, and then that one produces two shoots. So you end up
0:56.5	with quite a symmetrical ball of green. Coming into the winter, you get the white berries on it,
1:01.9	which everybody's familiar with.
1:08.1	I'm Guy Barta and this is Gardening with the RHS.
1:11.6	You've just heard from Graham Rice.
1:14.6	He's a garden writer perhaps best known for editing the RHS Encyclopedia of Perennials.
1:20.6	He's here to tell us about a plant that has links with winter romance, Missile Toe.
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