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Gardening with the RHS

Make a splash with aquatics!

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re diving into the world of aquatic and semi aquatic plants. Sarah Gerrard-Jones, also known as The Plant Rescuer, gives a dynamic tutorial on making mini water features for the home, Dr. John David, Head of Horticultural Taxonomy, describes the invasive nature of many aquatic plant varieties, and then, Dr. Elisabeth Larsen, RHS Ecosystems Services Fellow, takes us away from ponds and waterways, giving us an exclusive tour of her research on how trees capture water.  Links: The Plant Rescuer: The book your house plants want you to read How to grow aquatic and bog plants Aquatic Weeds Climate Change & Trees

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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.

0:30.6

One of my favourite aquatic plants is the water lily.

0:35.6

There's lots of water lilies, most of them are rather big

0:38.7

and you need quite a large pond to grow them. But there's one small one called Nimfea pygmaia

0:44.0

rubra. You can grow in a little pond, a little water feature like mine, so you can enjoy the lovely

0:49.4

things about water lilies in your own back garden. It's got lovely water lily round floating leaves

0:55.2

that are so valuable for insects to sit on and shade out algae and then all summer beautiful

1:00.4

flowers come up. They open pink and they gradually turn red as they get older and so

1:05.4

you can enjoy lovely water lilies even in a small garden all summer.

1:16.6

Today we're diving off for Deep End into the world of Aquatics. The plant rescuer, aka Sarah Gerard Jones, will fill us in

1:20.6

on why making an indoor water feature is the ideal January activity.

1:25.6

I think as humans we just have a need to be near water.

1:31.2

And I think having some sort of water feature in our homes

1:35.1

does something good for our mental health.

1:38.9

We'll delve into the world of invasive aquatic weeds

1:41.6

with RHS-headed taxonomy Dr John David.

1:45.0

I suppose the thing to do is just look for the native plants

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