What have plants ever done for us?

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Writer, broadcaster and houseplant obsessive James Wong encourages us to face our fear of killing plants and reap the incredible benefits of indoor gardening. There's never been a better time to think outside the (plant) pot, curating miniature worlds at home and getting creative with alternative planting spaces such as terrariums. Head of RHS Libraries Fiona Davison explores the history of plant medicine prior to next week's launch of the Healing Garden online exbitition. Erin Lovell Verinder, author of Plants for the People: A Modern Guide to Plant Medicine shares some of the herbal remedies that might just be lurking in our own garden weeds. Plus therapeutic gardener Ozichi Brewster outlines her pioneering social prescribing project at RHS Garden Bridgewater near Manchester.

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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.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:33.7	From things like ribwort and dandelion, chickweed, there's so many weeds that cross over into a medicinal weed space.
0:42.9	In today's show, how plants throughout the ages have been used in ways you might not expect.
0:48.9	From some unusual modern day uses for herbs to alarming plant remedies from the history books.
0:55.0	In fact, some of the earliest cultivated areas, cultivated gardens that we know of were
1:00.0	created specifically to grow plants for medicines.
1:04.0	Plus, we're exploring how the RHS is creating spaces to help people's mental well-being.
1:15.5	Physical health, emotional, well-being, mental well-being are all things that gardening is helping those conditions to be managed a lot better.
1:26.4	Welcome to Gardening with the RHS.
1:28.3	I'm Guy Barta.
1:30.3	To start, we're hearing from broadcaster and writer James Wong
1:35.3	on why he thinks house plants are so helpful in welcoming people to gardening.
1:40.3	So I have what can only really be described as an obsession with houseplants. People overuse the word
1:47.6	obsession, but I think with me it has definitely got out of hand. I live in a one-bedroom flat in
1:52.8	central London and just looking around, I have green covering every surface. So I recently counted
1:58.6	up to 450 and then got bored of counting. So I'm going to assume, and I was definitely not at the end there. So I'm counted up to 450 and then got bored of counting.
2:01.1	So I'm going to assume, and I was definitely not at the end there.
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