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Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week we're working with plants through time and across the world. Author and previous guest on the show Jonathan Drori explores more incredible plants from across the globe, including Tillandsia (Spanish moss) from the American Deep South. It's a mysterious relative of the pineapple plant that has almost no roots yet is woven into the history and culture of the southern states. Historian Fiona Davison tells the story of Thomas Fairchild, a London man who made the first ever intentional plant hybrid. Plus Anna Greenland presents the last of our grow-your-own beverages series with a look at elderflower. Useful links: ► Find out more about tillandsias (also known as Spanish moss or airplant) ► Find suppliers of elder plants Contributors: ► Fiona Davison, Head of RHS Libraries and Exhibitions ► Jonathan Drori, author of Around the World in 80 Plants ► Anna Greenland, author of Grow Easy

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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.
0:23.6	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.6	Book tickets online for discounts plus under five score free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:33.6	Hello and welcome to gardening with the RHS.
0:36.6	With me Guy Barta.
0:39.0	It may not be a busy planting month, but it's certainly the month for ordering seeds.
0:44.6	My seed order is in and safely in a cardboard box under the bed in the spare room.
0:49.4	But to-do lists aside, we have lots coming up on today's show.
0:56.5	Fiona Davison will be introducing us to the first person to intentionally create a hybrid plant. It's through their activities, creating
1:04.6	and cultivating and propagating plants for sale, that plants get into our gardens.
1:13.6	Can music affect the way plants grow?
1:18.1	Jonathan Drory, author of Around the World in 80 Plants,
1:20.2	will explain all later in the show.
1:24.0	And you imagine these guys, you know, just sort of hanging around,
1:26.6	not much to do, and they think,
1:28.9	oh, well, let's play some loud sounds to these tomatoes and see what happens. And we'll be taking a look at the last item on our homemade drinks
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