Snowdrop special

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode we visit Cambo Gardens in Fife to meet snowdrop enthusiast Lady Catherine Erskine and her impressive collection of these iconic winter flowers. Plus contributions from nurserywoman Jane Rowlinson of Galanthus specialists Morlas Plants, and snowdrop growing tips from RHS gardening advisor Nikki Barker.

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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.
0:23.7	Add an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16s at five pounds.
0:41.3	I'm Guy Barta and welcome to Gardening with the RHS.
0:46.2	Today's show starts in the stunning countryside of Scotland as we're visiting Cambo Gardens in Fife.
0:50.7	Renowned for its snowdrop collection,
0:52.9	the garden boasts over 350 varieties and its singing
0:57.0	from now through February and into March. So let's head on a tour of their Winter Garden
1:03.0	with Lady Catherine Ersigan, a trustee and the person who built up the Snowdrop Collection.
1:10.0	The Winter Garden is a winter garden person who built up the Snowdrop Collection.
1:18.6	The winter garden is outside the walled garden. It's less formal than the walled garden. And I suppose when we started, we thought of it more as a woodland garden. And it is semi-woodland.
1:25.6	But actually a lot of the plants that shine in the middle of the winter don't necessarily need a woodland garden, and it is semi-woodland, but actually a lot of the plants that shine in the middle of the winter
1:29.3	don't necessarily need a woodland setting.
1:34.2	The winter garden really comes into its own from late autumn,
1:38.9	and by January it's really beginning to sparkle.
1:43.1	The early snowdrops are up,
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