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conditions apply. 2026 has landed with a splash, and I mean that quite literally.

A relentless succession of low-pressure weather systems have brought unending rain to almost all of the UK.

Met Office data shows that from the 1st of December to the 9th of February, rainfall totals have

already surpassed the average for an entire winter across large parts of the country. Needless to say,

in the garden it's all getting a bit soggy underfoot. This week we're taking a trip down to RHS Garden Wisley to see how the horticulturists have

been weathering the storms.

Team leader Helen Benssted Smith shares how the riverside gardeners have been coping and explains

why these increasingly wet winters are something we need to adapt to rather than battle against.

We'll also wander through one of Wisley's most beautiful late winter spots with my co-host Guy Barta.

Unlike most woodlands, oak wood sits on a high water table, making it naturally damp and full of inspiration

for planting in tricky, shady conditions.

And finally, we popped in to see Liam Anderson, who's hard at work pruning the 75 metre-long

wisteria walk. In just a few months it will be transformed into a glorious

tunnel of purple and white flowers. All this coming up on Gardening with the RHS with me, Nick

Turrell. Over the month of January, England was swamped with 124 millimetres of rainfall,

a figure equivalent to 150% of the long-term average for this time of year.

Cornwall and County Down had their wettest January's on record.

Northern Ireland saw the wettest start to the year in 149 years

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