Turf Wars

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A new frontier of debate has arrived in the garden… artificial grass. Does this plastic green sward have any place in our homes? That’s the question we’ll be answering today. Featuring interviews with Dr Mark Gush, Head of Environmental Horticulture at the RHS, Organic Gardener, Ellie Mitchell and the owner of Dunsborough Park, Caroline Sweerts. Autumn care for lawns: https://www.rhs.org.uk/lawns/autumn-care Wildflower meadow establishment: https://www.rhs.org.uk/lawns/wildflower-meadow-establishment Bulbs: https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/types/bulbs Ellie’s Wellies Organic Gardening: https://ellieswellies.com/ The Wildlife Garden Podcast: https://thewildlifegardenpodcast.podbean.com/ Dunsborough Park: https://dunsboroughpark.com/

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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.
0:31.8	A smell of freshly cut grass.
0:34.6	It's the scent we all know and love,
0:36.8	and that some have even tried to bottle.
0:39.3	But did you know that what we're actually smelling is a whole host of volatile chemicals
0:44.3	that grass releases when it gets cut, a sort of distress signal, if you will?
0:52.3	Yet a reaction that was originally meant to deter insects chomping down on its many bright green leaves
0:58.1	has evolved into an aroma that today many of us enjoy.
1:03.2	Today's show is an ode to the scents, sight, touch and myriad other ways that grass livens up our gardens.
1:10.1	We'll be hearing from RHS scientists and organic gardeners about the world-renowned British
1:15.4	lawn and its new nemesis, artificial grass.
1:19.6	And I'll be taking you with me into my back garden to teach you how to lay some turf.
1:23.6	Plus we'll be heading to Dunesborough Park to explore how they plant bulbs now for their
1:29.0	famed tulip meadow come spring. Welcome to gardening with the RHS, with me Guy Barta.
1:41.3	For many people, when they think of gardens, they think of grass.
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