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Terms and conditions apply. My background is in plant pathology, so the study of plant disease, and I began my time at the RHS working on honey fungus. I became aware of the fascinating mushrooms that it makes during the autumn time and I was trying to explain to people how they could tell which ones are honey fungus mushrooms

compared to all of the many, many types of mushrooms out there that are beneficial to the garden.

Then as time went on, I became more aware of research around

honey fungus that explained how other fungi are probably your biggest asset at defending your

garden against honey fungus attacks. And I realize it's not just that these things are wonderful.

They're also undervalued and we're doing fungi a disservice. We're doing gardens a disservice by not

working with the fungi that are there to create a healthy garden in the first place. We're ignoring

the fungi, we're harming them when actually if we encouraged them, we'd get way more out of our gardens.

That was Dr. Jassy Draculaitch, senior plant pathologist at the RHS.

A self-confessed microphile, Jassy is on a mission to spread her love for the fascinating world of fungi.

She's even published a beautifully illustrated guide to the mushrooms you might spot in your

garden, local park or woodland this autumn. This week, she joins us to open the door to this

incredible fungal, Queendom, uncovering the secrets hidden beneath their fruiting bodies,

and exploring the extraordinary ways these organisms release and spread their spores. We're also joined by horticulturalist

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