Guerrilla Gardening, Seasonal Advice, and Maintaining a World-Famous Laburnum Arch

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week’s show is all about cultivating change – whether in your own garden, in your local neighbourhood, or in a magical National Trust property. We’re chatting guerrilla gardening with Ellen Miles, getting top tips from Wisley advisors, and taking a look at all the work that goes into maintaining the laburnum arch at Bodnant Garden (one of our most beloved partner gardens!) Presenter: Guy Barter Contributors: Ellen Miles, James Lawrence, Becky Mealey, Michaela Freed, and Lucy Bidgood Links: Guerrilla gardening and reclaiming urban spaces Get Guerrilla Gardening Nature is a Human Right The Laburnum Arch at Bodnant Garden Horticulture Careers Discovery Week Diploma in Horticulture Practice

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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.
0:35.1	Everyone always asks if we're sneaking off at 2am to go and plant, you know, with balaclavas on and torches and like walkie talkies going like go, go, go, go.
0:43.3	But there are all these kind of related topics like public nuisance, public endangerment, trespass vandalism, liability concerns and planning applications and all of that stuff, which you don't need to sew some poppy seeds, really, as far as I'm concerned.
1:00.4	Today we're in the dangerous and urgent pursuit of creating change through, you guessed it,
1:07.0	gardening. Speaking there was Ellen Miles, a gorilla gardener, looking at ways to jump through
1:13.2	proverbial red tape to create positive change in her local area. And creating change will be the
1:20.5	theme that carries us through today's podcast, as we dig into solutions to January gardening
1:26.1	woes and chat about yearly alterations that go
1:29.0	into preserving a world-famous Leberna March. Welcome to Gardening with the RHS with me Guy Barta.
1:41.3	But first, I wonder if you'd ever catch this lot in a balaclava.
1:46.7	We're heading to RHS Garden Wisley for some seasonal advice from the RHS advisory team.
1:54.7	So following on from our previous week's discussion on January advisory topics, I'm joined once again by Becky Mealy and Michaela Freed.
2:08.6	Hi! Hello!
2:10.6	So first up, we've got a question about renovating a garden. It's got quite a lot of formiums and some pampas grass
2:19.3	and we're looking at how to keep the formiums happy and healthy
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