The Winter Garden

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

With the first cold snap hitting the UK this past week, it’s really starting to feel like winter. It’s a time of structural beauty, of evergreen supremacy, of frosty seedheads, and of low but magical light. So this week, we’re focusing in on all the mystery and enchantment of a winter garden. We’re chatting with author Naomi Slade about designing and revamping gardens in the colder months, leaning into year-round grow-your-own with garden manager Sheila Das, and exploring how to bring a bit of the winter charm inside with what’s available now to pick. Presenter: Guy Barter Contributors: Naomi Slade, Sheila Das, Gareth Richards, Hazel Gardiner, and Shane Connolly Links: RHS The Winter Garden Vegetables: growing for winter Winter Flowers Week

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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, 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.
0:32.6	With the first cold snap hitting the UK this past week, it's really starting to feel like
0:38.3	winter.
0:40.3	And that means gardens are entering their bare bones era.
0:43.3	It's a time of structural beauty, of evergreen supremacy, of frosty seed heads and of lobe
0:49.3	magical light.
0:52.3	Wintertime gardening can feel like what author Naomi Slade calls the Dark Arts.
0:57.0	She writes in RHS the Winter Garden,
1:00.0	It's a place that exists on the edge of comprehension,
1:03.0	a mysterious and gloomy realm of empty space and quiet enchantments.
1:09.0	So today we'll be heading to Bristol to join Nehemi to hear about designing a winter garden
1:15.6	and enjoying all the mystery and enchantment it has to offer.
1:19.6	Later we'll be focusing in on winter veg with garden manager and grow your own aficionado Sheila Das.
1:26.6	And finally we'll be discussing how to build a show-stopping floral arrangement
1:31.3	with what's available to pick right now.
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