Growing bulbs and organic gardening

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

If you love spring bulbs but aren't sure where to start, we've got you covered. RHS Gardening Advisor Jenny Bowden gives her bulb planting 101 with lots of handy hints and tips; plus some lovely recommendations of which varieties to plant. Organic food grower and writer* Claire Ratinon tells the story of how she got into an ecologically-based way of gardening, and why it matters. Claire gives tips for organic growing in small spaces and containers. Plus garden designer Tom Massey's love letter to London's green lung, Richmond Park.

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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.
0:23.6	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.6	Book tickets online for discounts plus under five's go free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:34.6	At this time of year, there's nothing quite like getting your hands dirty by reaching into the soil in the garden.
0:41.3	And I like the simple task of digging into the ground, planting flower bulbs and looking forward to their explosions of colour in the spring.
0:49.3	I'm Fiona Davison, and today we are very much gardening with the RHS.
1:02.0	Autumn is the time to get your bulbs in the ground.
1:06.0	I'm thinking of delicate crocuses, fiery tulips and hopeful dafts.
1:14.6	Bulbs make wonderful displays in containers or borders,
1:18.5	and they're some of the easiest and most rewarding garden plants to grow.
1:22.4	Here's RHS Gardening Advisor Jenny Borden,
1:25.7	with some top tips for how to get the most out of them.
1:32.5	Bulbs are wonderful. They're like little bundles of promises of spring.
1:40.7	There's something to look forward to. They're an optimist's plant. You plant these rather uninspiring packages that arrive in the post or you get from the garden centre and then you're rewarded with a wonderful show of flowers in the spring.
1:50.1	I don't think you can go too far wrong with bulbs and that's the beauty of them.
1:55.0	Anybody can grow bulbs.
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