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Gardening with the RHS

Late Summer Gardening

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

With autumn drawing closer and closer, we’re exploring late summer gardens – with all their lushness, colour, and vibrancy — and considering what we can get up to in the garden now to set us up well for the next year. We visit RHS Garden Wisley to take a look at their seed collection process – and get their tips for how to replicate this all at home. We chat with kitchen gardener and food writer Kathy Slack about how we can get the best out of the fruit and veg we’ve grown this summer. And finally, garden historian Twigs Way joins us again to share the second part of her allotment series all about their history from the early 1900s until today.  Links: RHS Members’ Seed Scheme RHS Grow Your Own From the Veg Patch Tales from the Veg Patch Newsletter Festival of Flavours Allotments

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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 add an RHS garden near you.

0:23.6

Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.

0:34.6

So I'm sat out in my garden, I'm looking at the lovely late summer sunlight coming through the plants.

0:40.9

And it's a really great time to reflect, isn't it?

0:43.7

You know, everything's grown up and all your spring plans and all your big dreams for the garden have come to fruition or haven't.

0:49.9

It's a great moment to sit back and just enjoy this kind of like pause in the year

0:55.2

where everything just holds its breath and figure out what's worked and what hasn't.

0:59.9

One thing that's worked really well is my little table, so I've got a patio table just outside

1:04.3

the kitchen door and I've got little terracotta pots on there because I think it looks really

1:08.1

nice having this terracotta against the wood.

1:10.5

A terracotta pots dry out really, really quickly, so I've put succulents in them.

1:14.6

I've got hekavirias and house leaks, Sempervibirms, that kind of thing.

1:17.6

But for a bit of colour, I've tried two new bedding plants for me this year.

1:21.6

One is a Diasia, which is a lovely South African plant with like real kind of pillar box red flowers. It's a colour that I

1:29.2

absolutely love. And the other is Guy Vola which is a fan flower and they're from Australia

1:34.3

and they make these cool little scrambling trailing but not unruly just sort of gently

1:40.0

kind of weave the way around the succulents a bit. Really cool, really unusual, very, very drought tolerant as well.

1:46.0

I love plants that kind of forgive me when I forget to water them.

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