Our Plants' Roots

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re journeying back in time to explore plants of yore. Otherlands author Thomas Halliday tells us the story of the United Kingdom’s ecological origins, Kew Botanist Rafael Govaerts describes how garden plants can go extinct, and Karen Clarke gives us the scoop on the RHS’s Digital Dig project – an effort to digitise the many, many thousands of old plant nursery catalogues in our collections. But that’s not all, Mr. Plant Geek, aka Michael Perry, will close out the show by bringing us into the present with a love letter to an exciting hyacinth he helped roll out. It’s an episode chock-full of deep-rooted flora stories! Links: Otherlands: A World in the Making The Plant Review Digital Dig Volunteer with the RHS

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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.
0:23.7	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:31.5	So we revere paintings and we revere buildings because they've got the great history or they're very old or they were great artists.
0:43.3	But we don't seem to revere our horticultural history as much.
0:50.3	The conditions that we live in right now are defined by the existence of these forests 300 million years ago.
0:59.0	The catalogs, they kind of help to track the introduction and disappearance of plants, especially exotic species.
1:05.0	You know, we're talking about plants of the past and all of that great heritage.
1:09.0	New developments we said are important for breaking new colours,
1:12.8	kind of advancing the plant family, but also being a plant with a purpose.
1:20.2	This week, we're journeying back in time to explore the plants of yore.
1:24.5	We'll be talking about the first trees that populated the earth and the garden plants that
1:28.1	have mysteriously, or perhaps not so mysteriously, disappeared. These histories have left an imprint
1:34.2	on our rocks, our soil, our artefacts, and their footprint is felt not just in the past, but in the
1:39.2	way we approach our gardens and green spaces today. So, by going backwards, paradoxically, we hope to come
1:45.3	forwards as well, re-examining our own connections with the plants we've grown to love and cherish.
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