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🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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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 at an RHS garden near you, let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can, |
0:22.1 | at an RHS garden near you. |
0:24.0 | Book tickets online for discounts, |
0:26.0 | plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds. |
0:34.9 | Halloween is nearly upon us. |
0:37.3 | So in today's episode of Gardening with the RHS, with me, Guy Barta, we're exploring the |
0:43.1 | darker side of growing. |
0:46.3 | We're digging into an issue that's haunting our houseplants, Pete. |
0:50.6 | A plant pathologist is helping to identify honey fungus, a common garden organism that sometimes |
0:57.0 | turns into a plant assassin. |
0:59.9 | And we're hearing how one man is striving to keep imperiled plants alive. But first, there's a problematic substance lurking in many house plant pots across the UK, peat. |
1:23.3 | Peatland habitats are vitally important in the fight against climate change. |
1:28.3 | They hold more carbon than all the world's forests combined. |
1:32.3 | And they also help keep our drinking water clean, reduce flood risk and provide habitats for some incredible plants and animals. |
1:40.3 | But our peatlands are under threat. |
1:43.3 | Peat is widely used in gardening as it's a big component of growing media such as potting compost, |
1:49.0 | and as a result at least 80% of our peat bogs here in the UK have been damaged or destroyed. |
1:56.0 | To make matters worse, like coal or oil, peat is effectively a finite resource, as it forms at the rate of just |
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