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Gardening with the RHS

Ungardening

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ungardening isn’t the antithesis of gardening – instead, it’s about taking a new perspective on what tending to the earth can look like. And that’s a fitting theme for today’s show, as it’s chock full of stories that force us to look at things with fresh eyes. We’re getting handy and slightly unusual tips from RHS advisors on June grow-your-own problems. Then, we’re heading to RHS Garden Wisley’s orchard to hear the latest on their brand new fast-growing habitats. And finally, we’re chatting with Garden Museum curator Emma House about how artist Jean Cooke explored the concept of “ungardening” through her paintings.   Links:   Jobs to do in June   Trees! What are they good for?   Jean Cooke: Ungardening

Transcript

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0:00.0

Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.

0:06.4

Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance to delight your senses.

0:13.2

Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars.

0:17.4

Race you, let's go.

0:19.5

Catch Springs finest scenes while you can at an RHS garden near you, let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can,

0:22.1

at an RHS garden near you.

0:24.0

Book tickets online for discounts,

0:26.0

plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.

0:33.1

She very famously said that one of her pastimes was un-gardening

0:41.3

because she really liked to allow nature to take its own path

0:46.3

and the plants to do their own thing.

0:49.3

And I think for her having a garden where she un-gardened was something where she could have control by not having control.

1:03.7

That's Emma House, curator at the Garden Museum in London.

1:07.6

She's talking about British artist and gardener Jean Cook.

1:14.6

I wanted to start today's show off with the idea of un-gardening. In this case, Emma's talking about un-gardening as a form of freedom,

1:18.6

as a way of spurning the conventional formal ideas of what the garden should be,

1:22.6

to make way for a wilder, unrestrained space.

1:26.6

And what we mean by un-gardening isn't the antithesis of

1:30.0

gardening itself. Instead, it's about taking a new perspective on what tending the earth can look like.

1:36.0

It's about putting away ideas of should and must, and it's always been, and welcoming the new

1:41.0

and sometimes even the bizarre. And that's a fitting theme for today's show.

1:45.6

It's chock full of stories that force us to look at things with fresh eyes.

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