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Gardening with the RHS

Summer gardens to visit, coping with carrot fly and learning to love wasps (Ep 132)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

As new plantings emerge from the dust and hubbub of the redevelopments at Wisley, we explore the Wisteria Walk and Heather Landscape. Plus a round-up of RHS partner gardens to visit this summer, results of a two-year science research project into how gardeners can best deal with carrot fly and wildlife writer Kate Bradbury rallies gardeners in defence of some surprising allies - wasps! For more info and useful links see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast

Transcript

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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 add an RHS garden near you.

0:24.0

Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.

0:45.7

Now summer's really here. Today we bring you garden walks, wisteria, and wasps. Are they really all bad? All this and much more coming up in today's RHS gardening podcast. I'm Jenny Bowden,

0:53.2

one of the RHS's team of garden advisors. This June,

0:57.3

the garden has literally burst into life, the bindweed leading the charge, I'm sorry to say.

1:03.3

The weather really has been our friend and our foe this spring and summer so far. We've had freezing

1:08.7

temperatures, followed by rain, and then the warmest May since

1:12.6

records have begun. What this means for all our garden plants is plenty of blooms and lushness.

1:19.2

And predictions are that the good weather will continue. So it's perfect for nurseries preparing

1:25.0

displays for Hampton Court and Tatton Park flower shows,

1:28.7

and perfect for visitors for an idyllic day out at the shows. Here at Wisley, the new garden

1:34.9

developments are progressing rapidly. We went to speak to the teams to see how some of the key

1:40.2

projects, the Wisteria Walk and the Heather Garden are coming along.

1:51.3

I'm Emma Allen and I'm garden manager for formal and decorative display.

1:57.8

We are standing at the entrance to Wisteria Walk, which is our 75 metre long wisteria tunnel,

2:02.5

which has been opened this year and it's got lovely utopiary outside of it as well we call it our topiary gallery so there are 20 individual unique pieces

2:08.0

of taxes topi so there's ones that look like helter-skelters there's some that look like the queen

2:13.6

of hearts from alice and wonderland and we finally planted wisteria on the tunnel as well.

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