GYO tips from Rosemoor, plant hybrids, and shrubscapes

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Desert roadcuts, abandoned pasture, heathland and marshy thickets inspire naturalistic planting ideas from Kevin Philip Williams and Michel Guidi, whose new book Shrouded in Light draws from wild shrubscapes. We also visit RHS Garden Rosemoor in North Devon, where Peter Adams gives us a tour of the extensive fruit and vegetable gardens with top tips for growing parsnips, shallots, cloching potatoes and protecting peas. Jenny Laville and James Armitage return to the podcast to debunk more plant terminology – this time talking about “hybrids” – what they are, how they occur and how they can be used to your advantage. Presenter: Gareth Richards Contributors: Peter Adams, Jenny Laville, James Armitage, Michael Guidi and Kevin Philip Williams Contact: [email protected] Links: RHS Garden Rosemoor How to grow parsnips How to grow shallots How to grow potatoes F1 Hybrids Shrouded in Light

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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.
0:31.6	As our interest in formal planting and precisely manicured spaces has waned,
0:36.6	gardens that let the wild in have become a prevailing
0:39.4	current and contemporary garden design. The popularity of wildflowers and meadow-style matrices
0:44.7	shows that the appetite to create spaces that feel closer to nature has bubbled way beyond a mere
0:50.3	Instagram trend and deep into our horticultural psyche.
0:57.1	But as two of our guests today are keen to point out,
1:02.4	napweeds and cornflowers aren't the only sources of inspiration for more naturalistic and wild vistas.
1:07.7	Much of Western North America is dominated by Artemisia or Sagebrush.
1:15.6	And those simple kind of combinations of twisted wood bases arching and slithering through the landscape, almost like an animal, feeling very animated, and then mixed in with rabbit
1:21.2	brush. I think for me at least, that was my gateway drug to shrubs. It was just seeing that kind of beautiful combination, which is common, ubiquitous, but also
1:31.7	for a reason, these are tough, adaptable plants.
1:34.8	And I think we drew a lot of inspiration from their resiliency out in the wild.
1:39.6	Touch shrubs and cry.
1:41.1	Yeah.
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