Sustainable plant combos, GYO tips (for tomatoes, beetroot, squash), flowering shrubs

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever fall in love with a plant, buy it, but then not know what to pair it with? Principal Horticultural Advisor James Lawrence introduces his guide to creating planting combinations that don’t just look good, but have a sustainability impact too. Guy Barter shares seasonal tips for establishing tomatoes, beetroot, and winter pumpkins and squash – helping you to set up for the Grow Your Own season. And Jack Aldridge, a horticulturist who looks after Oakwood at RHS Garden Wisley, will be singing an ode to his favourite flowering shrub, the Stachyurus. Presenter: Guy Barter Contributors: James Lawrence, Jack Aldridge Links: Oakwood at RHS Garden Wisley How to grow tomatoes How to grow beetroot How to grow pumpkins Stachyurus praecox Stachyurus chinensis RHS Gardening advice / ChatBotanist

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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.
0:23.6	At an RHS garden near you.
0:25.6	Book tickets online for discounts plus under fives go free and under 16 to five pounds.
0:31.6	What flowering trees and shrubs have you been noticing this spring?
0:35.6	This bizarre shrub I'd never seen before with these dark, almost black stems laden with these
0:43.3	individual, very delicate little racemes of these beautiful yellow cup-shaped flowers.
0:48.3	Thousands of them, and I'd never seen anything quite like it before.
0:52.3	From magnolias to camellias, Fors Scypheus and Daphne's, it's the woody plants that are taking
0:59.7	centre stage right now with their bright petals and confetti-like drops.
1:06.0	Today Jack Aldridge, a horticulturalist who looks after Oakwood at RHS Garden, Wizzley, will be singing
1:12.1	an ode to his favourite flowering shrub, pistachy urus. I'll also be taking you through free,
1:18.5	key, grow your own veg to get going with now in April with my tips for success. We'll be
1:25.4	looking at beetroot, tomatoes and pumpkins and winter squashes.
1:30.3	All of this to come on today's Gardening with the RHS podcast with me Guy Barta.
1:38.3	But first, do you ever fall in love with a plant, buy it, but then not know what to pair it with?
1:46.0	Whether you're starting a border from scratch or trying to add plants for an existing scheme,
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