New shoots - growing the next generation of gardeners

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The RHS Campaign for School Gardening touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of children throughout the UK, providing children with gardening opportunities to enhance their skills while boosting their development and wellbeing. We meet the people behind the campaign as well as the winners of its recent School Gardening Awards. For more info and useful links see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast

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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.
0:35.6	Hello and welcome to a very special edition of the RHS Gardening Podcast.
0:42.0	I'm Fiona Davison.
0:43.5	Today we're talking about the future of gardening, the new shoots.
0:47.9	This is the new generation of young gardeners who are developing horticultural knowledge
0:52.8	and a passion for plants with the help of the
0:55.5	RHS campaign for school gardening. This year the campaign is celebrating 10 years of supporting
1:03.7	children, teachers and parents and bringing a love of gardening to new generations.
1:16.0	The campaign currently supports over 37,000 schools,
1:20.7	helping them transform their environments and their education methods.
1:24.6	But most crucially, it has changed thousands of lives.
1:30.3	Fuchsia Wilkins is a school's communication officer for the campaign for school gardening. The campaign for school gardening exists to give opportunities for all school children to get outside
1:34.3	and interact with nature out in the garden.
1:37.3	We have over 36,000 schools that have registered with us in the last 10 years.
1:41.3	So we've got a huge audience and many of them are very engaged.
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