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Hello and welcome to the BBC

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Gardeners World magazine podcast. Brought

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to you by the team here at the magazine. Join

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us as we chat all things gardening

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with the nation's favorite experts. Hello

2:02

and welcome to Garden Favourites with

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me, Alan Titchmarsh. This is a

2:06

new series of podcasts about

2:09

some of my favourite things, not

2:12

whiskers on kittens and brown

2:14

paper packages tied up in strings, but

2:16

the plants that I love and think

2:19

are indispensable in a great garden. You

2:21

see, everyone gardens differently and has their

2:23

own favourite plants to grow, so join

2:25

me as I share the plants and

2:28

gardens that have become dear to me

2:31

over my gardening years. You

2:36

know that feeling, don't you, particularly

2:38

with things like hostas? You've planted

2:40

them, you're waiting for those succulent

2:42

shoots to emerge. Up

2:44

they come. Oh, you rub your hands, you

2:46

go to bed, you come out in the

2:48

morning and find that they've been eating by

2:51

slugs and snails. Oh, they

2:53

were going to look so good. Now

2:55

they look like net curtains,

2:57

lace. Ah, it's so dispiriting.

2:59

Well, slugs and snails will

3:01

always go for hostas, but there are some plants

3:03

that they don't seem to bother with at all.

3:06

One is the ferns. I mean, you

3:08

think, oh, well, they're boring, aren't they?

3:10

Do you know ferns are not? And

3:12

they're brilliant for shady spots. So

3:15

many different forms that are crested

3:17

or frilly or feathery, they are

3:19

really useful. And one useful thing

3:22

is that the fern called dry

3:24

optorists, lots of different varieties

3:26

of dry optorists, is useful

3:29

in dry spots. I've always found that a

3:31

very useful mnemonic. If it were

3:33

called wet optorists, it wouldn't be the same, would

3:35

it? Dry optorists, great in dry spots

3:37

and also damp, because ferns tend

3:39

to enjoy damp, not waterlogged ground.

3:41

So have you got a shady

3:44

spot? Which suits hostas,

3:46

but they keep being full of holes. Plant

3:48

ferns and enjoy them because they

3:51

just won't get nibbled at all,

3:53

in my experience. Neither

3:55

Will One of the most

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brilliant, reliable, hardy garden plants.

4:00

The geraniums snow This are a

4:02

true geraniums not l ago name's

4:04

was a good for bright scarlet

4:06

jokes think some of flowers the

4:08

hardly geraniums which can either be

4:11

low and carpet forming or knee

4:13

or even waste time in some

4:15

instances but generally knee highs. Geraniums

4:17

a brilliant for not being eats

4:20

it happens mostly with plants which

4:22

have down he leaves or is

4:24

he look for a close out

4:26

with small has on their leaves,

4:29

slugs and snails. Don't seem to

4:31

like eating have relief plants so

4:33

the geraniums a brilliant and if

4:35

you want will muschamp to as

4:37

com which I think is a

4:39

wonderful a patrician it's about me

4:41

Hide and Magenta flows and blooms

4:43

right away soon the summer to

4:45

join him generalist sale for it's

4:48

as his L Camilla ladies mantle

4:50

and you know that Scott has

4:52

released because as well as these

4:54

frothy flowers if a seeds yellow,

4:56

green or lime green it as

4:58

a scalloped edged leaves. which

5:00

hold on to droplets of water

5:02

like quicksilver like mercury. And the

5:04

reason if you look closely at

5:06

that resurface is it's coated in

5:08

very fine down and that down

5:10

as well as allowing with surface

5:12

tension of the water droplet not

5:14

to be broken. it puts slugs

5:17

and snails of eating them and

5:19

without camilla. once it's club it's

5:21

starting to seats just other slip

5:23

of the flowers or says of

5:25

them down to the ground at

5:27

that time and they'll come back

5:29

with new. Foliage you

5:31

won't spectacular says.

5:34

He wants elegant sounds swell. Pence.

5:37

Demands for me. Take both Marxists

5:39

the rather like S and elegant

5:41

fuck schools leaves not hair a

5:43

surprisingly in this case, but some

5:45

other must be something in them

5:47

that slugs and snails tend not

5:49

to like. Sees elegant plants again

5:51

they will slow right the way

5:53

through the summer at a height

5:56

of around knee height up the

5:58

seat. flowers of white pill. Or

6:00

even deep crimson plum and a

6:02

vertical black bird as wankel sour

6:04

grapes which is sort of blue

6:06

and green mixed together. Really good

6:08

for giving some a callous but

6:11

as we learnt last winter when

6:13

when that cold snap in December

6:15

and really low temperatures still not

6:17

fully held it for the first

6:19

few inches they have been, it's

6:21

always worth taking cuttings of Pence

6:23

Timmons come late summer overwintering a

6:25

few in the Forestry greenhouse just

6:27

to make sure this is the

6:29

weather. A does turncoat and the

6:31

ones in the garden the killed

6:34

your life insurance policies on the

6:36

glass and is interesting that although

6:39

they look so fleshy that slugs

6:41

don't eat them well maybe signal

6:43

discovered instruments yeah but they must

6:46

have discovered Fuchsias. Coast use have

6:48

been around since time Immemorial. They

6:50

were Percy throw his favorite flower.

6:53

I remember him going Ultimo coming

6:55

was so with a few shifts

6:57

to seats it gets everywhere gardening.

7:00

Gets into every nook and cranny

7:02

and as long as you grow

7:04

plants that don't get noble but

7:07

slugs and snails, he won't have

7:09

those mornings of going out with

7:12

a cup of tea or coffee

7:14

and thinking oh no, look sense,

7:16

Geraniums, Ladies Mantle, and Simmons and

7:19

Fuchsias will never give you pause.

7:21

Who complains For a slug or

7:23

snail? A hearty meal serve him

7:26

right. That's it for

7:28

me. Until next time, Enjoy your

7:30

garden whatever the weather. Thanks

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for listening to the Bbc Gonna

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