Right plant, right place

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It's an often-repeated phrase in gardening but putting the 'right plant in the right place' really is a shortcut to growing success. So this week we're exploring how to match plants with places – both indoors and out – to get the absolute best out of your garden and house plants. RHS gardening advisor James Lawrence gives tips on picking the right houseplant for different rooms and garden designer Lee Burkhill shares tips on getting to know your plot. Plus designer and nursery grower Gerry Price offers advice on growing plants in coastal gardens.

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	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.
0:23.6	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.6	Book tickets online for discounts plus under five score free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:35.6	I'm Fiona Davison and this is Gardening with the RHS. In today's show I'm starting by the seaside.
0:43.9	Oh I wish I'm not, I'm in the spare bedroom, but let's pretend. There's lots to consider when
0:50.5	growing in the seaside environment and it presents gardeners with some wonderful opportunities
0:54.6	but quite a few challenges too. It really takes us back to what I think of as one of the
1:00.0	fundamental principles of gardening. You need to grow the right plant in the right place.
1:06.4	That's what we'll spend today focusing on, as the show is packed full of advice.
1:12.0	As well as coastal gardening, we'll be discussing how to find the perfect spot for your houseplants
1:17.1	and how to best assess the quirks of your own garden conditions.
1:21.9	Plus, we'll be hearing a preview from the forthcoming edition of our RHS Members magazine, The Garden.
1:30.1	So back to the coast, let's hear what we can learn from this rather extreme growing environment.
1:36.4	Jerry Price is known as the Coastal Gardner.
1:39.6	She runs a small specialist plant nursery and garden design practice based on the Isle of White.
1:45.5	I spoke to her about how she coops with the challenges of growing by the sea.
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