Refashioning the Unfashionable

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’ll be exploring a few of our cultivated genera and species that, for a variety of reasons, have gone out of style. We’ll hear about Plant Heritage’s Threatened Plant of the Year competition, take you to the beautiful garden of horticultural legend Roy Lancaster to get a tour of his most-cherished aucubas, chat with Wisley curator Matthew Pottage on why we should give Parthenocissus a chance, and finally, take a trip down memory lane with author Naomi Slade. Naomi will be telling us all about the history of the lilac’s bumpy ride in the popularity stakes. Links: The Plant Review Plant Heritage RHS’s National Plant Collections Lilacs: Beautiful Varieties for Home and Garden

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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.
0:33.0	But I am delighted to say that the judge's choice is Chenomelis Spiciosa contorta, which is
0:42.6	been raised by David Ford.
0:48.3	Last week at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, Chenomalees Spiciosa contorta, a scarce Japanese quince
0:55.9	cultivar with tortured twisted branches won Threatened Plant of the Year.
1:01.5	And Threatened Plant of the Year is an annual competition hosted by Plant Heritage and
1:05.8	it's all about bringing recognition to rare and sometimes unfashionable garden plants. So we started this competition about four years ago.
1:13.6	That's Vicky Cook, conservation manager at Plant Heritage.
1:16.6	Because we realised that there were loads of really fantastic cultivars out there
1:21.6	that had dropped out of nursery catalogs
1:24.6	and were in danger of being lost completely.
1:26.6	Because if nurseries aren't selling them,
1:28.6	they'll just dwindle out of gardens and we might lose them entirely. So this was to really
1:32.7	celebrate some of those fantastic plants that our collection holes and plant guardians know all about,
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