Roses and other thorny issues

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy a tour around RHS Garden Wisley’s Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden with its 4,500 roses and find out how to keep yours blooming until autumn. We discover how this iconic plant became the favourite (and least loved) flower among the British with historian Simon Morley, then author Gareth Richards sings the praises of a rose relative, the bramble, ‘nature’s frontline defender against man’. Finally, find out about the pest-busting wasp you definitely need in your garden this summer.

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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	Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars.
0:17.4	Race you, let's go.
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	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:33.7	I'm Guy Barta and welcome to Gardening with the RHS.
0:41.5	We're going to start today's show in the Rose Garden at Wisley.
0:47.5	My name's Emma Allen. I'm one of the garden managers here, responsible for formal and decorative display.
0:55.6	Later in the show, we'll look at the history of this plant, as well as its underappreciated fauny side. And talking of the misunderstood, we'll profile some other maligned things in the garden, weeds and parasitoid wasps.
1:02.4	But first, let's get a tour of the roses with Emma. So we're currently sitting in the
1:08.1	bose lime rose garden, which is a large rose garden at
1:11.8	Wisley. Got over 4,500 roses in here, but they're complemented with lots of herbaceous perennials
1:18.6	and shrubs as well. So there's a real mix of interest in here. Two of my favourite roses, one's
1:27.4	called For Your Eyes Only, and this has a lovely, starts out in a kind of like peachy pink colour and then fades to a paler pink and it's got a lovely darker eye in the centre. So you get all these different colours. It's a single rose and you get all these different colours all over the roses. They're all different ages at the same time. I particularly like that one. It's not scented though. That's the only drawback, but it is beautiful. And it has a very close cousin which is called Rose that Eyes for You. And that one, it almost looks like a peony flower. That's like a pale mauve and slightly fuller petals.
2:03.7	And it's always got a peony quality when it emerges.
2:06.1	Again, it doesn't smell, but they're just visually stunning.
2:09.7	And they keep flowering all summer long.
2:12.2	They repeat flowers.
2:13.3	So, you know, you get a lot for your money there if you buy those roses.
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