Halloween Special!

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Join us on a Halloween spooktacular! Dr Chris Thorogood of Oxford Botanic Garden delves into the weird and wonderful world of parasitic 'vampire' plants including the rainforest giant Rafflesia, the largest flower in the world; to one you can grow at home. Plus RHS gardening advisors Leigh Hunt and Becky Mealey talk death in the garden, with a guide to telling if your plants are ill or just resting, and how to rescue them from a near-death experience. Sometimes Frankenstein-style surgery really is the way forward!

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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.
0:23.7	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s at five pounds.
0:43.9	So. Spider plants, ghost peppers,
0:46.9	Dracula orchids, deadly nightshade.
0:49.7	You know, I'm feeling a bit spooked this week.
0:57.0	Welcome to Gardening with the RHS and our Halloween special. I've seen pumpkins appearing in shops recently and I do love the tradition of carving them.
1:05.0	I grow my own pumpkins a variety called Rouge Vief de Tomp.
1:10.0	It's quite tasty. I don't mind people misusing
1:13.6	vegetables and carving them, but I do object to them being wasted afterwards. Don't throw them in the
1:19.0	bin, either compost them or make tasty soup out of them, brush them with olive oil, bake them in the
1:24.1	oven, scrumptious. The name Jackalantan actually comes from the phenomenon
1:29.3	of a light flickering over peat bogs and marshy areas called Will of the Whisp, or Jacko'lantern
1:35.4	in English folklore. Quite an image. But pumpkins aside, this week I thought it would be fun to
1:41.9	hear about other plants that fit a Halloween theme,
1:45.2	parasitic plants. Dr Chris Furrugood from the University of Oxford is passionate about them.
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