Picking the perfect rose

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week we meet Michael Marriott, one of the UK’s foremost rosarians. Michael shares his expertise from a lifetime of rose growing, which is distilled into his new book, RHS Roses: An Inspirational Guide to Choosing and Growing the Best Roses. Plus troubleshooting tips on rose growing from the RHS Gardening Advice team. Matthew Oliver, horticulturist and veg grower extraordinaire continues our greenhouse growing mini-series with a piece from the beautiful glasshouse at the heart of RHS Garden Hyde Hall. Hear seasonal GYO advice and first-hand hints on how to grow melons with exceptional flavour. Useful links: ►RHS Roses: An Inspirational Guide to Choosing and Growing the Best Roses ►RHS advice on how to grow roses ►Global Growth Vegetable Garden ►How to grow melons

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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.
0:32.6	That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
0:36.6	And Shakespeare's right.
0:38.7	The smell of a rose is sweet.
0:40.8	It's a sense that's been bottled and stored for centuries.
0:45.1	But it's not just its perfume that has been famous throughout history.
0:48.7	The image of a rose extends as a symbol from the Greek goddess Aphrodite to our very own
0:53.6	Chuda dynasty.
0:55.5	It's most often depicted in a brilliant shade of red, but of course it exists in a whole
1:00.0	range of colours from bright whites to vivid pinks, vibrant yellows and deep oranges.
1:05.5	But how can we give new interest to this familiar plant in our gardens?
1:10.0	That's what we'll be chatting about with famed rose expert Michael Marriard.
1:13.6	We'll be talking us through the world of scents that this bloom has to offer,
1:17.6	along with some unique insight on the magic of training roses through trees.
1:22.6	We'll also be talking to our knowledgeable team of advisors to help with all of your fawny rose-growing issues,
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