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Gardening with the RHS

Reflections on the Year

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re looking back on our garden highlights (and lows) of 2022 while also taking stock of the current state of our winter green patches. We’ll hear from Wisley horticulturalists on their reflections of the year, learn all about colonised fungi log piles from plant pathologist Jassy Drakulic, and get the inside scoop on why Wisley doesn’t cut back their herbaceous perennials until early spring. Useful links: Dead wood and compost heap habitats The Glasshouse at Wisley Visiting Wisley RHS Allotment Handbook

Transcript

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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

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0:17.4

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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

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0:26.0

plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.

0:33.1

We've made it to the end of 2022.

0:36.1

And what a year in gardening it's been. We've fared through the

0:40.2

unprecedented heat and droughts of summer to one of the coldest and most brutal starts to winter

0:46.2

in years. Not to mention supply shortages, price fluctuations and a sharpened focus on climate and

0:53.4

sustainability.

0:55.0

But whilst you could call it a year of unpredictability and changes,

0:59.0

for me it's been a joyful year of surprise results, problem solving and new tricks.

1:05.0

And I think my colleagues across the RHS agree.

1:08.0

I've learned that especially the herbaceous plants, they really have come back.

1:11.6

They really do cope, they just sort of have a shutdown mechanism and as soon as the right

1:16.6

conditions come back, they re-emerge and yeah, that was quite something to see.

1:21.6

Today we'll be hearing from horticulturalists at RHS Wisley about their 2022 successes and failures, before coming

1:30.5

into the present with plant pathologist Drassy Dracula. She'll tell us all about the wonderful

1:35.9

fungi we can find fruiting on logs this winter.

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