Growing trees for the future and pet-proof planting

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

With flooding, climate change and wellbeing becoming ever more important topics, planting trees has become a call to arms to anyone interested in making the future a brighter place. We talk to Carol Honeybun-Kelly from the Woodland Trust about a nationwide tree-planting campaign, The Big Climate Fightback. Dr Andrew Hirons, Senior Lecturer in Arboriculture at University Centre Myerscough offers advice on the best trees for challenging urban situations, making some personal selections that should prove resilient in the face of climate change and increasing pest and disease threats. Meanwhile, back at RHS Garden Wisley, our Gardening Advice teams offers tips on how to propagate bear's breeches (Acanthus) and shares advice on how to garden alongside cats and dogs.

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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 add an RHS garden near you.
0:23.6	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:33.6	Hello, welcome to the RHS gardening podcast. I'm Charlotte Brooks, the art curator at the
0:42.7	RHS Lindley Library in London. Later on, our expert advice team will be discussing some of your
0:48.4	pressing gardening questions, including pet-proofing your garden, but first, trees.
0:54.6	You've probably seen some of the prominent media campaigns, Facebook, Instagram and so on,
0:59.8	all about British trees.
1:02.3	Trees help protect us from flooding.
1:04.3	They're great for wildlife and have a lot of other benefits, but they're at risk.
1:09.3	In both natural and domestic environments, there's a real need to
1:12.6	protect, promote and to propagate them. On November 30th this year, the Woodland Trust is
1:19.2	organising a mass tree planting event. It's part of their big climate fightback campaign.
1:25.5	We spoke to the Trust about the vital role that trees play and the
1:29.1	different ways in which you can get involved and help protect them.
1:42.0	My name's Carol Honeybun-Kellie. I'm from the Woodland Trust. I work on their strategic
1:46.1	woodland projects team and at the minute I'm working on the Big Climate Fight Back. So the
1:50.8	big climate fight back is a campaign we're running over the autumn and we wanted a mass planting
1:55.2	event that everyone could get involved in and over the summer we saw how keen people were
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