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Gardening with the RHS

Growing apples & grapes, award-winning clematis, native trees from seed, hedgehog-friendly gardening

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Horticulturists Joe Olds and Bernard Boardman are in the orchard at Wisley, discussing how to get the best from apples and grapevines. Alex Hankey talks plant trials and Sabatino Urzo shares the results of a recent People's Choice vote to discover the favourite clematis from a trial of 28 varieties at RHS Garden Harlow Carr. Meanwhile, our gardening advice team gather to answer questions on growing British native trees from seed, making gardens hedgehog-friendly and pruning lavender and rosemary.

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 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.

0:36.4

Hello and welcome back to the RHS gardening podcast. I'm Jenny Bowden, one of the horticultural advisors here.

0:44.0

Later in today's edition, I'm going to be joining some of my colleagues in the advice team

0:48.2

to answer some of your questions you've sent in about issues you're facing in your own gardens this autumn.

0:54.6

Plus, we'll be heading to the trials fields here at RHS Garden Wisley and Surrey.

0:59.4

We'll have a look at some of the flowers, fruit and vegetables

1:01.8

that are being put through their paces as the teams assess their performance

1:05.7

and choose the very best for the coveted award of garden merit,

1:09.5

otherwise known as the AGM.

1:11.6

This is the gold standard that helps gardeners select the plant varieties that are most likely to deliver great results. But first, fruit.

1:34.0

Autumn is one of the busiest times in the orchard as we gather in the harvest and prepare for the next year's growing season.

1:40.8

So, how has 2019 been for fruit?

1:49.0

Our producer Lucy went to meet the team to hear about this year's successes and challenges and to learn what jobs fruit growers can undertake in the coming weeks.

1:54.0

My name is Joe Olds. I work in the orchard at RHS Gardens, Wisley.

1:58.0

And I'm Bernard Bordman and I work in the orchard.

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