Ode to the dahlia, growing peat free and front garden tips

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Our human world might've changed completely in the past few weeks but the joyful beauty of plants and flowers shines brighter than ever. This week, Rob Evans of Pheasant Acre Plants shares his love for one of the brightest stars of flower gardens everywhere, the dahlia. RHS Gardening Advisor Becky Mealey brings us back to earth with some timely advice on how to get the best from peat-free compost, and Jenny Bowden encourages us all to make the most of our front gardens, sharing design tips and planting ideas to make them bloom.

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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.
0:33.2	I'm Guy Barter and this is the RHS gardening podcast.
0:39.1	We're all adapting to our new situation and with more time on our hands at home it feels like the perfect chance to get out into our green spaces.
0:47.8	Today I'd like to think about how gardening and gardens can be a refuge for us, a place for us to escape into, particularly at the moment.
0:57.0	It's a wonderful feeling for people to think that they've actually grown something that they planted themselves.
1:02.0	Rob Evans is a gruff-sounding bloke from Bridge End South Wales.
1:07.0	When you see a field full of dahlias on any morning, you know, we walk through the field in the morning when they're all full flower, it's like as if they've all got their little happy faces on.
1:21.1	He's probably the last person you'd expect to adore such a delicate plant as the Delia, but he's the owner of
1:27.9	pheasant acre plants, a nursery that specialises in growing Dalias and Gladioli.
1:33.6	Anything he doesn't know about Dalias isn't worth knowing.
1:37.4	Dalias make you feel happy. They're bright, they're vibrant.
1:42.6	That's the thing about gardening.
1:45.7	It doesn't matter where you're from.
1:49.4	What you do, who you are, it can be your ray of sunshine.
1:52.4	And for Rob, that's what the delia is to him.
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