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and welcome to the BBC Gardener's World

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magazine podcast. Founded to you

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by the team here at the magazine. Join

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us as we chat all things gardening with

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the nation's favourite experts. Hello

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and welcome to Garden Favourites with

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me, Alan Titchmarsh. This is a

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new series of podcasts about

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some of my favourite things, not

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whiskers on kittens and brown

1:49

paper packages tied up in strings. But the

1:51

plants that I love and think are

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indispensable in a great garden. You

1:56

see everyone gardens differently and has

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their own favourite. plants to grow

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so join me as I share the plants

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and gardens that have become dear to me

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over my gardening years. There

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is a point in spring

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where those seemingly

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dead and lifeless branches on

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trees suddenly burst

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into life. Oak, ash,

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beech and birch with their green leaves but

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the trees that really give us a lift

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in spring are those that

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carry blossom. The

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flowering cherries are perhaps

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the most spectacular. Loveliest of trees the

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cherry now is hung with bloom

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along the bough and stands about the woodland ride

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wearing white for Eastertides.

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That was a houseman in

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the Shropshelad and the

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lovely white-flowered cherry that's called

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Shirotae. S-H-I-R-O-T-A-E

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is my favorite. I planted half a dozen

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of them here in my Hampshire garden about

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20 years ago now. They

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are now massive trees and

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I love walking through Shirotae

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in spring and drowning in

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the blossom. No fragrance but

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to be honest it's so spectacular. You

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don't really need fragrance. It's not

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just the cherries that provide good

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spring blossom, the crab apples do

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too. Malus is the crab

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apple. Well that's the name of every apple

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tree that sits genus. There are lots of

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different crab apples that bear wonderful fruits in

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autumn and the lovely thing about them is

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you get spring blossom and autumn fruits but

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there is one which is particularly good for

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smaller gardens in that it doesn't grow too

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massive and its

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blossom is bi-coloured and

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this is Malus floribunda. Floribunda

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meaning carrying lots of flowers it

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most certainly does. The buds are

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sort of rosy crimson and then

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they burst open to palest pink

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or white so you get this double

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tone of color from the deep rosy

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red bud. to the pinkish-white

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blossom. It's absolutely glorious. Single flowers these

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are, as opposed to the fully double

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ones on charote. So if you want

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a small tree for a garden that

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will give you spring blossom, those flybrons

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are really good bet. Loads

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of folk love magnolias. Oh my

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goodness me. A lot of them

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too big to grow in a

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small garden. And you know I

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don't really like to see magnolias

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pruned. You'll see magnolia

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sulanjianna, the one with the large waxy

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cups of flour, that are planted far too

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close to small houses and then some just

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come out and hack them back. Oh

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they look such a sad and sorry mess.

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So if you're going to plant magnolia

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sulanjianna, do it where there's

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lots of room for it to make its enormous great

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goblet shaped tree. And if

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you haven't got enough room for

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that then plant magnolia stellata, the

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star magnolia. One of the earliest

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to flower and it's white, they're

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of varieties that are pale pink

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and it's not nearly so large

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as the big sulanjianna magnolias. They

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all prefer soil which isn't chalky

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but which is well drained. If

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you do have chalky soil try the variety

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called Leonard Messle which doesn't seem too bothered

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about it and it's a very very pale

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pink form of magnolia stellata. It'll make a

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shrub or a small tree in time that's

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a good 10 feet tall

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but it's a quite a slow grower and

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it shouldn't if you give it a bit of space eat

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you out of house and home. There's

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one spring flowering tree which surprises

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folk because it looks very bare,

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often rather contorted branches. And then

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suddenly in spring you'll

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see adult sort of brownish bits

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appearing in clusters on its branches.

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No leaves, just these strange little

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growths and as they get bigger

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you'll see they turn pink. And

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finally large pink

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pea-shaped flowers open all over

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it. This is the judo

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tree, Cersei's Silly Questrum,

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so called because allegedly this is the

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tree that Judas hanged himself

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on. It's rather morbid tale, isn't

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it really? But the tree, oh

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my goodness, you will love it.

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All the more spectacular, because those

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pink flowers are born on naked

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branches and they're followed by heart-shaped

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green leaves. So it's even a

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handsome tree when it's

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in leaf and then you get lovely autumn colour

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before the leaves fall. Never too big and

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never too casting of shade, so the

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Judas tree is well worth trying. Smaller,

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well, go for a

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Chinese dogwood. A little bit later

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flowering in spring, but my goodness,

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Cornus kooza, beginning with a K.

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Loads of varieties, generally speaking

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either white, big starry white

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flowers, though to be honest

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they're not flowers, they're brats.

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Enormous great stars of white

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or pale pink or

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pale green. The Chinese

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dogwood is an absolute puppet.

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It's so spectacular and completely

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reeds itself in these brats

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which surround a central cluster,

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a knob of tiny white flowers and

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those are the flowers proper. But it's

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the brats that give us the spectacle

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and that will attract you from quite

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some distance. So however small

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you are garden, there is a spring

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flowering tree for you. That's

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it from me. Until next time, enjoy

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your garden, whatever the weather.