Grown Here From Elsewhere

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

As the UK becomes more and more diverse, the flora we grow is changing – and we want to honour that. So, this week, we’re spotlighting the plants grown here from elsewhere. First up, we’ll take a trip to an allotment site in Southall. Here, award-winning garden designer Manoj Malde will chat with us about the fruit and veg from around the world that he’s including in his garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. We’re then delving into the history of plant collectors. Fiona Davison, Head of Libraries and Exhibitions at the RHS, will take us through the often overlooked legacy of how some of our garden favourites made it to Britain from far-off lands. Finally, we’ll head to RHS Bridgewater’s Chinese Streamside Garden – and explore how international horticultural partnerships have changed over the years. The RHS and Eastern Eye Garden of Unity The Chinese Streamside Garden Rare and Familiar Friends: The story of Chinese plants in our gardens

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.1	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, at an RHS garden near you.
0:25.6	Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:33.6	There's traffic roaring up and down and on this very wide street.
0:37.8	On one side, the north side, there's stall after stall of market traders
0:42.6	and lots of shops spilling out over the wide pavement,
0:45.7	and it's teeming with people doing their shopping ready for the week and the weekend.
0:50.5	On a chilly overcast day this February, Guy Barta, RHS chief horticulturist and co-presenter of the podcast, went to Whitechapel Market in East London to explore the wide array of fruits and vegetables we can find here in the UK that are from abroad.
1:06.6	Out here in front of the shop, it's spilling out onto the pavements and and there's lots of guavas and green pumpkins and lichies and mangoes.
1:14.4	And on the other side of the vegetables, lots and lots of spinach, lots of coriander, Thai basil.
1:20.0	And in the far corner are the Dicon roots, and then more roots behind them with some eddo yams,
1:26.2	lots of garlic, lots of capsicums, chili peppers.
1:29.3	There's lots of them. They're looking fantastic.
1:32.3	With our mild climate and handy resources like greenhouses and polytunnels, we can grow an amazing variety of plants throughout this country.
1:40.3	Think of palm trees, those tropical wonders that now line the front gardens of many London streets.
1:46.0	Welsh onions are very easy to grow.
1:48.2	Spinach is easy to grow.
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