Highlights of 2021

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What a year 2021 has been for gardening! We've had weird weather, an autumn Chelsea Flower Show, a peat ban, RHS Bridgewater opening... the list goes on. This week we're looking back to some of our podcast highlights, including delving into the tiny but terrifying world of parasitic wasps with RHS Wisley scientist Magdalena Boshoff who explains how these insects do an amazing job destroying garden pests. Zehra Zaidi tells the story of how she helped name a rose after a trailblazing black gardener - the first rose to be named after an ethnic minority Briton. Allotmenteer and YouTuber Mothin Ali (@MyFamilyGarden) shares tips on growing the perfect potato and RHS Chief Horticulturist Guy Barter gazes into his crystal ball and gives his predictions for gardening in 2022. Plus garden designers Ann-Marie Powell, Humaira Ikram and Lee Burkhill share their thoughts on what they'll be focusing on next year.

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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.
0:30.8	It's the last show of the year,
0:32.8	and what a year it's been.
0:35.1	Hello, my darlings.
0:36.2	This is the Chelsea Flower Show, and I am the drag queen gardener.
0:41.3	It's the greatest garden show in the world.
0:46.0	There's been a very special project in the works, the transformation of a huge green space
0:50.7	into one of the largest gardening projects in Europe.
0:53.7	It's the future of gardening. It's employment for the young people and
0:58.0	somewhere for the people in the local area to come to. It's fantastic for the North West.
1:03.0	Our beloved Chelsea returned. We opened our fifth garden Bridgewater in Salford
1:09.0	and we've been working hard to make gardening as sustainable
1:12.1	as possible. So aside from this podcast winning a gold award at the British Podcast Award,
1:18.5	quite a lot has been happening in the world of horticulture. And today on Gardening with the RHS,
1:27.3	with me, Guy Barta, we're taking a look back at some of the podcast's most memorable moments.
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