Lockdown gardening tips, houseplants and herbs

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

April is always a busy month in the plant world, and despite lockdown, this year is no exception. So this week's show is full of ideas of how to grow when you've nowhere to go. Lee Burkhill, winner of an RHS Feel Good Garden competition, shares his personal guide on how to keep on gardening during lockdown. Plus we're talking houseplants: Wisley Curator Matt Pottage shares one of his all-time favourite plants, and gardening advisor Jenny Bowden offers seasonal care tips. Nikki Barker has some expert help for a listener who wants to keep their herbs in shape, and offers some handy hints on growing herbs indoors.

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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.
0:31.5	Got contrasts with green leaves and the purple leaves of the begonia
0:36.4	and the orange flowers of the bromeliad.
0:40.2	It can be quite colourful seeing.
0:42.7	Gardening doesn't just have to be kept to the outdoors.
0:48.0	We've got a manner of strange things here, antique toys and goodness knows what.
0:52.3	I'm sure people think we are quite mad when they come over
0:54.6	but my crazy houseplants and interesting pots and ways of display and them all become part of that
0:59.9	yeah you just wouldn't be without them really there can be a bucket load of benefits when bringing
1:04.9	the greenery in it has pushed me to start thinking or creatively about what people can do if they like me are stuck at home
1:12.6	and they won't feel either as trapped or as lonely as you can feel when you are having to self-isolate.
1:18.7	Your own house can be the ideal space for growing food.
1:22.4	I like growing herbs from home because they're really flexible.
1:26.1	You can grow them and use them in cooking. But if you
1:28.9	don't bother using them in cooking, they have beautiful flowers, they attract bees and other
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