Maximising Minimal Space

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It’s no secret our living spaces are getting smaller. As more and more of us move to urban areas, we’re often having to put up with tight quarters – living in tiny flats with limited outdoor space. So in this episode, we want to explore how to maximise the space you do have – getting the best out of whatever garden, patio, porch, or windowbox you can access. Award-winning garden designer Tony Woods gives us a front garden masterclass. We’re then chatting with journalist and gardener Ann Treneman about creating fetching winter containers. And finally, Fiona Davison, our head of Libraries and Exhibitions, is back to tell the story of an early city gardener – and what we can learn from his 18th century ideas. Links: RHS Big Ideas, Small Spaces Garden Club London RHS Urban Show Growing plants in containers Thomas Fairchild: The first city gardener?

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.1	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance.
0:09.3	The scenery changes many times in one season and our finest trees will happily play the part of...
0:14.7	The best hiding place ever.
0:17.4	Booth!
0:18.2	Put your day out of dreams in the hands of the experts.
0:21.6	It's the greatest show in Earth, at an RHS garden near you.
0:25.6	Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:30.6	It's no secret that our living spaces are getting smaller.
0:35.6	As more and more of us move to urban areas,
0:38.1	we're often having to put up with tight waters,
0:40.4	living in tiny flats with limited outdoor space.
0:43.4	In fact, about one in eight British households
0:45.5	has no garden at all.
0:47.7	So in this episode,
0:49.0	we want to explore how to maximise the space you do have,
0:52.2	getting the best out of whatever garden, patio, porch
0:54.6	or window box you can access. Because even the smallest of spaces has the potential to thrive
0:59.8	as a green oasis. Award-winning garden designer Tony Woods will be giving us a front garden master
1:08.0	class. I can walk up a street, I can see no hedges, loads of bins, lots of litter.
1:13.6	Or I can walk up a street and I can see someone who's got some cuttings
1:18.6	and they've put them out for someone to help themselves to.
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