Looking forward to 2021

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

As the new year begins, our outdoor spaces seem more important than ever. This week we're looking at gardening can benefit the mind, body and soul. Grower and forager Poppy Okotcha shares the seasonal delights of winter purslane (Claytonia perfoliata) – a little-known salad plant that can provide fresh, healthy greens throughout the coldest months. Award-winning garden designer Juliet Sargeant gives her thoughts on how the way we garden will change in 2021, and what she's doing on her own plot to encourage wildlife. Plus the RHS's first 'Wellbeing Fellow', Dr Lauriane Suyin Chalmin-Pui details the results of a four-year scientific study onto how having a green front garden can reduce stress and improve your mental and physical health.

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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.
0:32.8	Hello and happy New Year.
0:38.3	I thought it would be good to start today with some garden-based New Year resolutions.
0:43.3	Let's hear what growers from across the RHS are hoping to achieve in 2021.
0:49.3	Hi, my name is Charlotte Sweeney and I'm a horticultural advisor for the RHS.
0:55.0	My gardening resolution for 2021 is to think more about how drought tolerant are plant is before I buy it.
1:02.0	My name is James Lawrence. I'm Principal Horticultural Advisor at Whistley.
1:06.0	My gardening New Year's resolution for 2021 is to reduce the size of the lawn and increase
1:12.8	the space in my beds and borders so I can grow more plants.
1:17.2	The only problem is I haven't told the family yet.
1:21.3	I'm Guy Barta and welcome to Gardening with the RHS.
1:25.9	My gardening resolution is to actually let some light into my overgrown
1:29.5	woodland garden. I love trees and bulbs, but it's all got a bit too much. I've made a good start
1:35.6	already. I've started cutting back, but there's a lot more to do. Hi, my name's Janet Manning,
1:41.4	and I'm the water management specialist at the RHS. My new
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