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🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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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. |
0:33.6 | Hello, you're listening to a December edition |
0:36.0 | of the RHS Gardening Podcast. |
0:41.3 | Today we're talking trees in towns and cities and plants with Christmas pizzazz. |
0:47.3 | To glitter or not to glitter? That is the question. |
0:53.3 | But first, wildlife in winter. |
0:56.0 | With the cold weather truly upon us, what can gardeners do now to protect the birds and creatures we love during the cold and hungry weeks ahead? |
1:06.0 | Hello, I'm Kate Bradbury and I'm a garden writer specialising in wildlife gardening. |
1:11.7 | With winter coming up, it's a really good idea to create a little log pile or a leaf pile in your garden, |
1:17.1 | which will provide a habitat for things like hedgehogs and small mammals and frogs, amphibians, etc. |
1:22.6 | To hibernating over winter. |
1:25.1 | What not to do, I would urge people not to empty their compost bins at this time |
1:29.0 | as potentially you could be disturbing hibernating wildlife in there. Do wait until spring, but don't |
1:33.1 | leave it too late in spring as then other species might have come into nests. So April is the best time |
1:37.3 | to empty, turn, whatever you want to do to your compost bin. It's a really good time of year to |
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