The Enchanting World of Herbs

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re diving into the enchanting world of herbs. Join us as author and horticulturist Connor Smith uncovers the rich history of these remarkable plants, celebrated in food, medicine, and mythology for millennia. The Queen of Herbs, Jekka McVicar, shares her expert advice on cultivating your own herb garden. From RHS Garden Wisley, Liz Mooney delivers a heartfelt love letter to her favourite herb. Plus, we’ll hear reflections from Wisley curator Matt Pottage as he bids a fond farewell after 20 dedicated years with the RHS. Host: Gareth Richards Contributors: Connor Smith, Jekka McVicar, Liz Mooney, Matt Pottage Other Links: How Herbs Healed the World by Connor Smith 100 Herbs to Grow by Jekka McVicar Jekka’s farm website

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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
0:21.2	It's the greatest show in Earth
0:23.3	At an RHS garden near you
0:25.3	Book tickets online for discounts
0:26.9	Plus under fives go free
0:28.1	And under 16 to five pounds
0:29.6	Herbs themselves
0:30.8	Herbs themselves
0:35.7	Historically have been very important.
0:38.2	They're now lost a little bit favour.
0:40.3	They're typically the plants that we have at home on the shelf
0:43.9	or they're in the garden somewhere in this little clay pot
0:46.7	and then we'll occasionally chop some bits off when we're cooking something.
0:50.4	But if you think about the history,
0:52.5	even back towards the early people in various different parts of the world, like Greece and the Middle East and China and India, the indigenous people of the Americas, they were always using them.
1:06.5	And then, slowly but surely, they were really the first plants that we would use as scientific
1:13.1	research.
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