Spring into action: seasonal advice special

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week's programme is jam-packed with great gardening advice from our RHS experts on a huge range of topics to get your garden off to a flying start, including how to smarten up your garden and plants for spring colour. It's dahlia planting time and top dahlia breeder Dr Keith Hammett offers insight into the wonderful world of this most variable of garden flowers ('I like to call them the dogs of the plant world'!). Did you know you can propagate some houseplants by literally pulling the roots apart? And others can be grown from sections of leaf? RHS gardening advisor James Lawrence explains. Plus Chris Young with a preview of the latest issue of The Garden magazine.

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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
0:27.2	and under 16s of five pounds.
0:34.2	This is gardening with the RHS.
0:36.8	I'm Guy Barta. It's approaching a season we get very excited by the RHS. Spring.
0:47.3	Hiya, Becky Mealy here from RHS Gardening Advice. Just admiring my lovely springtime garden. The bulbs are really doing their thing,
0:56.4	but for me, the star of the show has to be my red camellia. I'm Jenny Bowden and I'm one of the
1:02.5	gardening advisors at Wisley. A plant for me which really signals spring is wild garlic. It's also
1:09.6	known as Ramsans. I like it because it's kind of God
1:13.5	attitude. It doesn't like to stay in one place. In fact, you could say it's rather invasive.
1:20.3	You can grow it in a pot and that would be my recommendation. My name is Sylvia Travers. I'm the team
1:26.7	leader of the inner wall garden at RHS Bridgewater.
1:30.3	The tree that signals spring for me is the peach. I'm sheltering from the rain in our new fruit house at Bridgewater,
1:35.3	where the peaches are just starting to open their dusky pink flowers on bare branches. They are a pleasant contrast to the white washed walls behind them.
1:43.3	Peregrine is my favourite variety. It is a white flesh peach with a fuzzy crimson blush.
1:48.0	It has an excellent flavour and crops from July to August, depending on where you are in the UK.
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