Summer Scents

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

As we get closer and closer to the official start of summer, the fragrances of our favourite flora are reaching a fever pitch. So for today’s show, we decided to focus on the many smells of our June gardens. In this aromatic deep dive, we’ll chat with renowned garden designer Isabel Bannerman on crafting a balanced but sweet-smelling summer plot, we’ll hear about the favourite Lathyrus cultivars of sweet pea supremo Roger Parsons, and finally, we’ll end with a mystery. Urban naturalist and author Bob Gilbert is back on the show to discuss the curious story of how a favourite scented flower of the Victorians lost its hallmark smell. Links: Scent Magic Lathyrus: The Complete Guide The Missing Musk: A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.1	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	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.5	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:33.2	If there's one plant that takes me to a particular time and a particular place,
0:38.2	it's the star jasmine, Trachylusperman jasmineoids.
0:42.5	Horrible name, beautiful plant.
0:45.1	And I first got to know this plant when I was a student, the third year of my degree course.
0:50.9	We were encouraged to go out and to work and to get practical gardening experience that they
0:54.9	just couldn't give us at college. I found a job in Tuscany, working in a beautiful garden on a
1:00.1	hillside surrounded by olive groves near to a medieval walled city called Luca. And the abiding memory of
1:07.8	Luca and the smell of the city was walking around on warm summer nights. The idea of
1:13.9	going for an ice cream at 10pm just seemed completely mad to me. But that's what you do. And
1:19.6	those nights were scented with this beautiful plant, the star jasmine. It's a twining, evergreen
1:26.2	climate and it has these lovely frothy little white
1:30.4	flowers in a kind of a propeller shape. And when you sniff them, it's the most delicious
1:37.2	scent. There's elements of melon, there's elements of vanilla, there's a tiny bit of spicy clove in
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