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If you could travel back through time, where and when would you visit?

You learn from history not to make the same mistakes again, where things have gone wrong in the past. Some of the best garden plants, I think, is quite interesting, how they arose, and by chance, generally speaking.

It's amazing how quickly history gets lost and confused

and we forget things that were sort of taken for granted.

So I think it's important to try and uncover the truth before it's too late to see any trace

of what went before.

Hello, it's me, Gareth.

And as you may have guessed, today we're journeying back through time, taking stock of a few significant moments in botanical history.

We'll be unraveling their mysteries, considering their reverberations and imagining what this all might mean for the future.

Helping to guide us through these epic plant chronicles is none other than James Armitage, the RHS botanist and editor of both the Plant Review and the Orchid Review.

Hello James.

Hello, Gareth. Lovely to see you.

So James, the concept of this show was your idea.

Why exactly were you keen to turn back the clock today and look into these plant histories?

Well, since I became interested in gardening, which is a long time ago not, were you keen to turn back the clock today and look into these plant histories?

Well, since I became interested in gardening, which is a long time ago now, I've always seen gardens as kind of living museums and the things in them as like emblems of time and also

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