How can I keep my garden green over winter?

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Putting the garden to bed over winter is a thing of the past. Today we’ll be speaking to an expert horticulturist on how he created a 400m walk of winter interest planting and we’ll be chatting with Big Plant Nursery about spicing up your evergreen reserves with lush exotics. Plus we catch up with our RHS experts to learn the essential gardening jobs you ought to be doing now. Useful links https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley/garden-highlights/seven-acres/winter-walk https://www.bigplantnursery.co.uk/ https://www.rhs.org.uk/pruning

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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.
0:32.4	Winter in the UK can feel like the harshest time of year.
0:40.3	From weeks of rain to gale force winds and a touch of frost thrown in for good measure,
0:46.3	it's a season that tempts many of us to batten down the hatches,
0:50.3	only to re-emerge once spring has sprung.
0:55.0	But there are still plenty of ways that gardens can offer vibrant winter interest when all else is waning.
1:01.0	We'll be talking to an expert horticulturist about how he's created a 400-meter stretch of planting
1:08.0	that showcases the best of winter gardening to delight visitors in even the coldest months.
1:13.6	And if tropical plants are your thing, we'll be chatting with a nursery owner about evergreen exotics
1:18.5	and how to keep your home patch lush and jungly green year round. Plus we catch up with our
1:24.5	in-house experts to hear their must-do jobs for this month.
1:30.3	You're listening to Gardening with the RHS with me Guy Bart.
1:37.3	Let's dive right in, shall we?
1:39.3	And head to RHS Garden Wisley to meet Alistair Robinson
1:43.3	and explore the famous winter walk that
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Royal Horticultural Society, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Royal Horticultural Society and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.