John MacLeod lecture - 'Gardening Planet Earth - Sustainable Horticulture'

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2015

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Is 'wildness' an inviolable concept, or with 7 billion of us on planet earth, is the whole world in fact a garden? And can we as gardeners make a difference to the fate of the planet and its biodiversity? Hosted by the RHS at the Lindley Hall in London, the John MacLeod Annual Lecture has fast become a prestigious event, highlighting important and inspiring topics on horticultural science. This year, Professor Stephen Blackmore CBE, spoke on 'Gardening Planet Earth - Sustainable Horticulture'. Download this podcast to hear the lecture in full.

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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.
0:30.4	Hello and welcome to a special edition of the RHS gardening podcast,
0:35.6	brought to you from the John McLeod Annual Lecture at the RHS
0:38.8	Lindley Hall in London. These lectures have been held every autumn since 2011, and this year
0:45.5	Professor Stephen Blackmore, CBE, speaks on gardening planet Earth, sustainable horticulture,
0:52.1	and how each of us can make a difference.
0:59.0	Stephen is a botanist and former Regist keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
1:05.6	He was appointed Her Majesty's Botanist in Scotland in 2010, and since 2014,
1:09.5	he has also been chairman of Botanic Gardens Conservation International.
1:12.8	And now, over to Professor Blackmore in the Lindley Hall. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It all went suddenly very quiet. You were all
1:18.4	terribly well-behaved as an audience because we thought it would take about 10 minutes to get everybody
1:22.6	seated and you all went down in 30 seconds. So congratulations on being a wonderfully well-behaved audience.
1:30.5	So my name's Sue Biggs, and I'm not Dr. Alastair Griffith.
1:35.6	I'm Director General of the RHS, and it's great to welcome so many of you here this evening, afternoon evening. And for those of you who were here last year,
1:47.9	I hope you like the improvement in the horticulture and everything around us. So a big welcome
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