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Gardening with the RHS

Live from Tatton (Ep 134)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week we're at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park in Cheshire, revelling in this floral extravaganza in the glorious Cheshire countryside. We explore some of the show highlights before heading into 'The Beehive' with author and broadcaster Matthew Biggs who chairs a live question and answer session with gardening experts Mark Diacono, Lia Leendertz and Tony Dickerson. For more info and useful links see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast

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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.

0:50.1

Hello, my name is James Avedon Sinclair and I am an RHS judge and council member and I am standing here at the 20th Tatton Park Flower Show in Cheshire.

0:58.5

And I have been here for the last couple of days where I've been judging gardens and doing all this of nice privileged things that one's allowed to do if one is a judge.

1:04.0

You have to take the flack if you're a judge, but the other thing is you get to go and look at gardens in much more detail than any of the public will ever do.

1:11.1

So it's, you know, it swings and roundabouts to a certain extent. You should all come to Tatton Park if you have time. Go and buy a ticket now. There are tickets available and the show is open until Sunday. And I'm going to give you a list of things that you

1:15.6

must do when you get here. And the first thing you should do is to go and look at the poison

1:20.3

garden. Now this isn't a garden that we've judged. It's actually a feature which means that it's

1:23.6

big and enormous and exciting. And it's got a theatre in the middle of it where people

1:27.6

will come and talk about poisonous plants. And there are a number of poison plants that you

1:31.2

wouldn't expect to be poisonous that are exhibited there. Things that are just in your garden

1:35.2

which are fine to look at, fine to grow, just don't lick any of them if you can possibly avoid it.

1:40.5

Things like aconites, sort of monks' hoods is quite an obvious one rhubarb itself not the rhubarb sticks but the rhubububub leaves the poisonous and rhododendrons and all sorts of other things so if you want to come and learn about poisonous plants this is the place to be thing number two which you go and look at is something that tatton has been famous for for the last 20 years and it's the only show where you get what we call back to back gardens.

2:02.6

Little groups, four gardens, as the name suggests, back to back. So little tiny things.

2:07.6

So all of them are very, very achievable and very, very accessible, which means that you can come and you can find something,

2:13.6

you can actually replicate the entire garden in most people's gardens because they're little bits or little corners. So some of them are modern, some of them are traditional.

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