Special episode: Highlights of 2017

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We look back at the best bits of 2017 including 'feel good' gardens at Chelsea, a brand new flower show at Chatsworth and groundbreaking RHS research on gardening in a changing climate. Plus botanist James Armitage meets an incredibly ancient plant in his latest Wisley Plant Encounter. See www.rhs.org.uk/wisleyplantencounters

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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. Hello and welcome to a celebratory end of your edition of the Royal Horticultural Society's gardening podcast.
0:44.8	Today we're scrolling back 2017 to hear some of the standout moments of the year in gardening.
0:50.9	Once again, it's been a remarkable 12 months.
0:56.6	A major new RHS flower show at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire was launched. Chris Evans broadcast his flagship BBC radio show live
1:02.6	from a vegetable garden at Chelsea. Our science teams revealed some groundbreaking research,
1:07.8	challenging us all to rethink how we're going to grow in a changing climate.
1:11.9	And a multi-million pound investment project saw RHS Garden Wisley begin its transformation
1:17.2	into a horticultural and scientific hub to inspire the gardeners of the future.
1:23.1	So my name's Matthew Potage and I'm the curator here at RHS Garden Wisley.
1:27.1	And it's a very exciting time at Wisley.
1:28.9	It's a time of change and, you know, it really gives us the opportunity to, you know,
1:33.1	future-proof Wisley for the next hundred years.
1:40.0	I'm Sean Thomas, Garden Visits Editor for the RHS Members magazine, The Garden.
1:44.8	The transformations aren't just confined to Wisley.
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