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🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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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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