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Gardening with the RHS

Dead Hedges, Magical Mints and a Mycelial Menace

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week Sam Southgate from RHS Garden Rosemoor is teaching us how to rethink garden waste by transforming it into amazing structures for both you and your garden wildlife to enjoy. Mary Coates who’s doing her summer studentship with the plant health team at the RHS tells us about her research into the dreaded honey fungus, and how you can help her out. And finally we share some love for the mint family, as we dive into this expansive genus with some of the designers of the lamiaceae borders at RHS Hampton Court this summer.    Host: Guy Barter   Contributors: Sam Southgate, Mary Coates, Gareth Richards, Tom Howard, Marlene Lento, Yvonne Price and Victoria Stanton   Links: Privet species and honey fungus Survey Help our research at the RHS More about Honey Fungus The Nest at Wisley Lamiaceae borders at RHS Hampton Court

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0:00.0

I'm walking down the path in my garden and I have a suggestion for you and how you could help with global warming.

0:09.0

With a large lawn I found a simple way of making a big difference.

0:13.0

I sold my ride on mower and bought a top of the range Cress robotic lawnmower.

0:19.0

It runs off rechargeable batteries and uses cutting-edge technology to mow and maintain a lawn this size.

0:25.6

The petrol mower has gone, and with it, the emissions.

0:29.6

I actually don't know why I didn't sell the right on sooner.

0:32.6

With the Cress robotic lawn mower, the lawn is actually looking better.

0:36.6

The tiny grass cuttings fall into the grass roots, helping to fertilise the grass.

0:41.6

And the family doesn't have to put up with the noise and fumes from the ride on.

0:45.8

And I've freed up more of my time to spend with them and in the garden.

0:50.1

It's an easy step.

0:52.0

And you could also be making that change today.

0:55.2

Ask for Cress in your local garden machinery dealer or visit cress.com.

1:07.3

Biodiversity and wildlife for me has always been a really important part of my life.

1:11.6

As a youngster, I used to spend a lot of time out in the woodlands,

1:15.6

just playing around with mates like you do.

1:18.6

I actually came into horticulture a bit of an odd way.

1:21.6

I came in through ecology.

1:24.6

I was doing a few wildlife surveys, doing like bat surveys and reptile surveys and things like that.

1:30.3

And then through that, it was a bit lonely, to be honest. I was sitting on my own, watching someone's house,

1:35.3

waiting for a bat to come out. And it wasn't really what I wanted to do. But part of that was that you had to do a vegetative survey.

1:43.3

So I started really getting into plants that way.

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