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Gardening with the RHS

Critter camaraderie: Slugs, Snails, and Guerilla Gardening Tales

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

After a deluge of questions relating to garden critters, RHS Principal Entomologist Hayley Jones makes the case for why you shouldn’t be too quick to eradicate slugs and snails from your garden. Artist and ‘accidental activist’ Paul Harfleet shares how he has been transforming sites of hate crime through guerilla gardening. Finally, Rosemoor's Peter Adams talks about the benefits of potager gardening, a style of ornamental kitchen gardens with roots in the formal gardens of the French Renaissance. Host: Gareth Richards Contributors: Hayley Jones, Paul Harfleet, Peter Adams Other Links: The Pansy Project More Information on Slugs and Snails The Potager and Cottage Garden

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 add an RHS garden near you.

0:23.6

Book tickets online for discounts, plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds. In locations layered with human woe, he found an idea that began to grow.

0:41.3

In the gardens of Kew, he read for hours and learned the language of the flowers.

0:47.3

The science of plants cultivated by man, horticulture became the root of his plan. The pansy, a word used by friend and foe, was clearly the botanical way to go.

1:00.0

At every place where he'd been hurt, he planted pansies in the dirt.

1:09.0

That was the voice of Paul Halfley, chairing a passage from his beautifully illustrated book, Pansy Boy.

1:15.4

Flowers have long been steeped in symbolism, capturing the essence of beauty, fragility and resilience

1:20.0

through art, literature and culture. The LGBTQ plus community in particular have woven a rich

1:26.4

tapestry with these blooms,

1:28.3

reclaiming names like Pansy, Buttercup and Daisy from derogatory slurs to proud emblems of

1:33.1

defiance and transformation. Later in the show, we'll rejoin the visionary artist Paul Halfleet.

1:39.9

For nearly two decades, he's been planting pansies at the sites of homophobic and transphobic abuse,

1:45.3

turning pain into a blossoming tribute to courage and to hope.

1:49.6

Today, we'll also be hearing from RHS principal entomologist Haley Jones,

1:53.5

who's on a quest to shift our perspective on one of the Guard's most notorious and prolific pests,

1:58.6

the slug.

2:00.2

And don't miss RHS Garden Rosemores, Peter Adams,

2:03.0

who'll be sharing some expert advice

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