Uncovering the mysterious Miss Harrisson, plants on trial and hats off to begonias (Ep 141)

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This week's podcast is all about gardening winners - from Edwardian trailblazer who ruffled feathers by daring to win a nationwide horticultural competition while being a woman - to brilliant begonias, which won the RHS People's Choice Award last year on the Wisley trials field. Plus a look at how RHS Plant Trials are conducted and what the Awards of Garden Merit they produce mean for gardeners. For more info and useful links see www.rhs.org.uk/podcast

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:05.0	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.
0:36.5	Hello and welcome to the RHS gardening podcast. I'm Guy Barta and in today's
0:42.4	plantastic episode we're heading out to the trials field at Wisley to meet the teams that put
0:47.6	plants through their paces to earn the coveted award of garden merit or AGM.
0:59.5	By assessing varieties for superior performance and pest and disease and weather resistance,
1:03.3	our trials team save gardeners time and money and effort.
1:07.5	AGM plants give you, as they say, more bang for your buck.
1:13.0	Plus, begonias, the star of hanging baskets all over the UK. Begonias recently took both first and second places in this year's People's Choice Plant Awards.
1:18.8	We debate the merits of a range of award-winning varieties. But first, a mystery is solved. While
1:25.6	examining a box of archives from 1898, the Lindley Library staff came across some intriguing
1:32.0	records.
1:33.6	These were a series of correspondence regarding a Miss Harrison who came first in a nationwide
1:39.1	competition to test gardening knowledge.
1:42.1	The prize was a prestigious RHS horticultural scholarship, a reward
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