Highlights of 2016

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In our final 2016 edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast, the team revisit some favourite interviews from a busy and productive year at the Royal Horticultural Society - from the winning designers at the Chelsea Flower Show, invaluable advice from our expert Horticultural Advisors, words of inspiration from RHS Ambassador for young people, Baroness Floella Benjamin and our community project at Angell Town. We also hear Wisley Curator Matthew Pottage’s plans for the garden in 2017.

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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.
0:43.8	Hello and welcome to the final 2016 edition of the Royal Horticultural Society's gardening podcast.
0:48.6	And what a year it's been. It's been a time of exciting developments in the RHS.
0:56.1	We've had the announcement of a fifth RHS garden, Bridgewater near Manchester, a major new RHS flower show at Chatswood House in Derbyshire, new community projects and inspiring new RHS ambassadors who have joined
1:02.1	us to help share the benefits of gardens and gardening. In May, Baroness of Beckenham, Lady
1:07.5	Floella Benjamin, became our ambassador for children and young people.
1:16.9	She joined Allentish Marsh, Mary Berry and Chris Beardshaw, amongst others, as RHS ambassadors.
1:21.9	We spoke to her about her passion for plants and the power of horticulture has to transform people's lives through improving health and happiness.
1:25.7	When I was the young girl, my mother wanted to go and live in Beckham in
1:28.8	in Kent because she was a great gardener and this particular house that she wanted to buy, had a
1:34.6	beautiful garden. But when we went to look at the house to buy the house, they sent the police to
1:38.9	arrest us because they said black people don't live in Beckoning, in Kent. And my mother said,
1:43.4	I am going to buy this house. We are going to live in in Kent. And my mother said, I am going to
1:44.2	buy this house. We are going to live in this house. All my family, because I've got five
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