Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.

Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance to delight your senses.

Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars.

Race you, let's go.

Catch Springs finest scenes while you can at an RHS garden near you, let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can,

at an RHS garden near you.

Book tickets online for discounts,

plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.

This week we're trading our wellies for slippers

as we explore the fascinating world of indoor gardening.

The house plant craze might feel like a modern phenomenon, but humans have been nurturing indoor plants for over 5,000 years.

The ancient Egyptians were among the first bringing popular plants like palms indoors to decorate their homes.

And if you fast forward to the 19th century, tropical and subtropical plants began making

their way into homes across Britain. The Aspidistra, for example, was introduced from China

in 1823 and it soon earned a brilliant nickname which is the cast iron plant because it was capable

of surviving even the darkest and most soot-polluted Victorian homes, which is a really challenging

environment for plants.

But orchids were valued above all other flowers.

These coveted blooms were symbols of luxury, but sadly they also sparked ecological devastation

as overzealous collectors stripped entire populations from the wild,

and this is a problem that sadly persists in the illegal orchid trade today.

And around the same time, fern fever or terrodomania as naturalist and author Charles Kingsley referred to it,

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