That proscenium arch,
came from a film
called Saltburn that I was in.
Nick is not going to be able
to leave my house.
I'm keeping him here.
Tell us a showbiz story
that’s what I’d love to hear.
Oh, errrrr. I'll DJ for you.
How about we do that?
This is on record.
Okay. Yes, please.
Hi, and welcome to roots.
I'm Joe Wiley,
and this is where we meet our great
RHS Gardening Heroes.
We talk about what
their gardens mean to them,
why they love it so much,
the plants they love
and the plants they hate.
Today I'm in Richmond.
I’m in this stunning garden
and very excited
to meet one of the UK's greatest
and most loved actors, Richard E Grant.
Let's go meet him.
Oh my gosh, what a garden.
What a garden, What a man. Hello.
How are you? I'm very good. Thank you.
I don't think I've ever been in a garden
that has so many stories
and is such a place of interest before.
What a wonderful, wonderful place
you've created.
Oh thank you.
It's stuffed with props.
And every job
that I go on, every film
I'm on, I go to the production department
and try and buy
or bribe
my way to get props or pieces of stuff.
So your life and your work
is here with you at all times, isn't it?
Your surrounded by it. Exactly. Yep.
I'm particularly
loving the balls behind us.
Tell us the story
while we're here in this position
of where these balls came from.
Your baubles.
They were in, a shop window
display of a well-known
perfumery brand in England.
And after Christmas,
I said, what's happening to all of these?
And they said,
oh, we think we're getting rid of them.
I said, could I buy them all?
And they said, no, we'd be grateful
if you could take them off us.
So I got all of them.
Wow.
And I like Christmas, as you can see.
So these Christmas lights are on
every day, all year, day and night.
Beautiful and how did they get there?
Oh, I have no fear of heights.
So just got a ladder.
You did it yourself.
Yeah. Oh, wow.
And that kind of ties
in that it's a perfumery
because you love your scent.
You've got your own scents.
Tell us a little bit about that.
Is it Jack?
Yeah. It's called Jack.
When I was 12 and I was,
I was living in Swaziland,
where I grew up,
which is now called Eswatini.
I try to make perfume out of gardenia
and rose petals boiled up in sugar water.
For an American girl
that I was absolutely madly in love
with called Betty Clapp
with a double pea.
And yeah, it just turned into six
stink bombs.
And then, you know,
45 years later, Anya Hindmarch,
was a fellow houseguest
on holiday in the Caribbean.
She saw me smelling
and touching everything, and she said,
you should do something about this.
And I said, what? Psychiatrically?
And she said, no, no, no, no,
you should make your own perfume.
So I then spent six months trying to
trying to do this.
How did you do it? What did you do?
Well,
I got all the ingredients that I wanted
because I love cooking.
So it's the same process that I took.
Lime, mandarin and marijuana
and put them put these oils
into a combination mixture.
And then I got in contact with a
professional French nose
in Paris called Aliénor Massenet.
And together we worked for six months
backwards and forwards
until the scent was exactly
as I had imagined it in my head.
And then launched it at Liberty.
And it won awards and,
you know, became a bestseller.
So that's that's how it's started.
How wonderful. Yeah, yeah.
So you've always been drawn to scent.
So this garden,
I presume, is a garden of scent.
Oh, I wish it's evergreen
for the most part.
So, only roses
are the only thing that are scented
and honeysuckle that’s it.
Is there no gardenia in here?
It's too cold.
I've got them indoors.
Yeah, yeah,
but it's dictated by the environment
where you are,
what you've been able
to do in the garden.
I think gardenia is the most.
It's the holy grail of scent for me,
because it's the one white flower that's
so far
has defied all industrial extraction.
So the fact that every gardenia is on
the market is an invented one,
rather than the real thing.
Makes it even more,
holy grail like for me.
So I think it's the most erotic smell
on the planet.
My friend, I was talking to my producer.
My radio producer was saying
that she was walking
through Selfridges once,
and you were there
and you were spraying people
with your scent
that you were actually hands on.
Like, would you like to try this?
Would you like to try this?
And you were spraying people,
so I was the passion is deep
and you were selling your product.
Obviously I know they give you a week
to go and launch your product.
So I did that about eight years ago.
Yeah. How wonderful.
Are you developing any more scent?
Where
where are you at with
I am I've got well I've done Jack,
the original one with the
lime, marijuana and mandarin.
And then I did Jack Covent Garden,
Jack Piccadilly, 69,
and then Jack Richmond.
So they're all
in London with stories
that are related to my life.
Yeah, just remind us
why they called Jack.
Well, tell us why they call Jack.
Oh, because I didn't want them to be,
I wanted the packaging to be
pillarbox red
and that it would be something
quintessentially British,
rather than trying to pretend
that you're French and, Right.
All that,
I find it very embarrassing when you read
the notes on perfumes.
When they say,
well, there was a swish of a tiger's tail
when I was walking
with my aunt in the Himalayas.
And this reminded me of,
I find all that very embarrassing.
So, when somebody saw the,
at Liberty said the the pillarbox red
and it comes in a
Union Jack calico bag inside.
They said, why don't you call it Jack?
So I thought, well,
I know
I found out how many,
because it’s unisex, whether there were
how many women are called Jack?
And I found there a fair number.
So that's that's.
So no pretension. Just.
Just a beautiful scent. Yeah. Okay.
Can we have a wander around,
closing the rest of your garden?
Because there must be so many stories,
and I would love to
find out so much more.
There's something of that as catch my eye
over there that's catching my eye.
So should we wander this way?
Okay, okay.
Hang on.
Richard, tell me, where are we now?
What are we going under?
We've got candelabras above our heads.
Yeah, these these prop columns came from
a film,
called persuasion
that I was in with Dakota Johnson.
So at the end of those,
I snaffled them off and said,
could I have them?
So that's why they're here.
That's why they're there.
And behind us
just took us through
what we have behind us.
I can see Barbara, Barbara Streisand.
Yes.
The so the that proscenium arch,
came from a film
called Saltburn that I was in that film,
that little film,
that one that shocked some people.
And at the end of it,
there was a big
outdoor party scene for Barry Keoghan's
character's birthday.
And I said,
could I possibly buy that afterwards?
And they said, no,
it's all going to be scrapped and dumped
because storage cost too much.
So I said, could I have it in the garden?
So they did.
And I had already commissioned
a, two foot
tall sculpture of Barbara
Streisand's head.
So it's now
given a proscenium arch for her,
and she has she seen the pictures of it.
Tell me, tell me about the conversation.
So how did you that
you've obviously told her.
Oh, I've been a lifelong obsessive,
a Streisand fanatic.
And you're supposed
to grow out of this phase,
you know, when you reach adolescence,
which, clearly I'm still stuck at.
And,
so I then I was a Donna Karan’s house
in the East Hamptons,
six years ago, and I set a
I had a 1 to 1 conversation
this close to Barbra Streisand.
And I said at the end of it,
I have something to confess,
and she said, what's that?
I said, I've commissioned a two foot
tall sculpture of your head
favoring your left profile,
which is what she likes to be shot from.
For my garden.
And she said, you're crazy.
And I said, yes,
I know that, you know that.
And she said, no, you are really crazy.
I don't know anybody else
that has commissioned a statue like that.
So she's seen it.
Not in person yet.
I live in hope.
So that's why it's here.
And my late wife, you know, I said.
I said when we got married,
you are going to have to live
like somebody else famously
said, there are three people
in this marriage.
And,
she said, that's absolutely fine
because she was
she was also a fan,
not my level of obsession,
of Streisand as well.
But it was you, Joan and Barbara,
the threesome. Yeah.
What was Barbara's reaction
when she saw this?
I know
not in the flesh,
but when you showed her the picture.
What did she say?
She thought that it was a very accurate,
representation of her profile.
Oh, my gosh.
So this. You're crazy.
Your absolutely crazy. Yeah.
She's a massive gardener
herself, isn't she?
She's obsessed with roses,
having interviewed.
I interviewed her and she.
Yeah, she was just talking about roses.
What they meant to her.
A lot for a long time.
But what about you and gardening is this.
Do you have a gardener? Is...
No, I do it. Your the gardener? Yeah.
So I love mowing the lawn.
Once a week, and,
I've.
I planted
because when I,
where I grew up in Swaziland,
the season changes weren't as dramatic
as they are in, in England, so I wanted
not something be all dead in the winter.
So I planted as much evergreen
as possible.
So yew and box as you can see. Yeah.
Because the things that I have. Yeah.
And this
garden must have so many happy memories.
I mean, for you and Joan.
You spent a lot of time in this garden.
Yeah. We did.
She was
she was absolutely love
gardening as well as I did.
And up until I suppose the age of 30,
I never really thought about gardens
because I grew up with a beautiful garden
where I was born.
But I never thought of making
a garden myself.
So, I thought,
well, what are the evergreen plants?
So I went to the encyclopedia,
RHS thing.
And then found that box
Yew and
Ivy were
the things
that would look good all year round.
So what was it like when you came here?
So there was.
Was it just a blank canvas?
This this acacia tree, was still alive
at that point
and had died
and looks like something
out of Sleepy Hollow.
So I planted ivy all the way around it
rather than taking taking it down.
You can hang baubles from it.
So.
And all the trees on that side
I got from a nursery in Surrey
and had them trucked in
because there was nothing. Yeah. So.
Well.
And are you quite hands on with digging
and putting the trees in
or do everything.
Yeah. Literally do everything yourself.
Okay.
And, and the rest of the...
I mean I have to have help to do this.
You don't have help.
Is it helpful for you mentally?
Is is it
something that you physically
really enjoy doing?
I think I think going in the garden
every day and doing something
because you, you're it's
constant maintenance,
as you know, from having a garden,
and I spent an absolute fortune on
box plants
and replacing them because
of the dreaded box
moth caterpillar that came in
to the country about ten years ago.
So we're going to get you some advice
about that.
We have an expert, so we’ll
get you some advice about that. Yeah.
Thank you.
And in terms of I mean, I imagine
obviously you love a party.
So you must have amazing parties here.
Yeah.
We have a Halloween party here every.
Yeah, every October for about 120 people.
So, that pergola outside
is really good for
dancing and feeding people.
Yeah. Tell me about the pergola.
Where did that come from?
I.
Basically bribed four carpenters
to come from Gloucestershire.
And I said I'd cook for them
and, you know, put them up
if they could do that
in four days for a Halloween party
four years ago.
And so since the last minute idea of,
like I said, I want a pergola.
They did. Yeah.
And now it's a great place to sit
because there's a fire inside
and you can sit there most of the year
and keep warm Yeah.
Quite often that's the problem isn't it.
You've got a garden
but you want to entertain.
But a climate is not amazing for that.
So so that's an extension of the house
and it's a part of the social hub. Yeah.
And it's more
because I'm a hoarder collector.
I could
put more and more stuff in there.
And who have you had around that fire?
Who what kind of is that?
Tell us a showbiz story.
That's what I'd love to hear.
Oh, who've you entertained here?
Melissa McCarthy, Meryl Streep.
Paul Rudd.
Meera syal.
Steve Martin, Martin Shaw
Catherine O'Hara, the late. Great.
Oh, lots of people.
Yeah. And it's.
I've been around so long, you know, I've.
People I've worked with,
you know, come round.
And what happened.
So do you drink?
Do you play games? Do you do?
Well allergic to alochol..
So they drink? Yeah.
They drink.
And I love cooking
and barbecuing as well.
So, Yeah, I like entertaining.
Yeah.
So good conversation
into the how late into the night.
What's, what's the latest
you've been in this garden entertaining,
talking to people?
5 a.m. and dancing.
And because there's
a graveyard over the wall, you can.
You can play music pretty loudly here.
And the kitchen, the.
So, yeah, there'd be no complaints.
So loudspeakers out there.
What kind of music? But who do you like?
I mean, I'm a music person,
so I'd love to know, everything from,
I suppose, Motown.
Onwards to now. Yeah, yeah.
And our daughter got married
here in the garden a year ago, so
we had a brilliant DJ
who played everything from
all the stuff that you, you know about.
I'm not going to. Yeah.
Embarrass myself by naming names..
It feels like a very happy garden.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, really?
Like, it's
seen a lot of living in this garden.
Hugely.
And when when you lost Joan, was it
a place of solace for you as well?
Was it did it help? It was.
And she said to me, you know, please.
Bury my ashes under a cherry tree.
And I, I said, yes, I would do that,
but I've,
I've not brought myself to do that yet
because, you know, rationally,
I understand that that's what she wanted.
But emotionally,
I sort of feel that even this
just box of ashes
that I've got
is the last thing
that I physically have of her.
So I haven't buried them because I will.
If I leave this house,
then I can't take the ashes with me
and you have to have her with you.
Yeah,. At all times.
Where is she now?
In a box inside the house.
Yeah.
I don't blame you.
I don't blame you. Yeah, we lost our.
This is not comparable to you
losing Joan at all.
But we lost our dogs.
And we had a tree planted last year,
and it was really lovely
to have them beneath that tree
and to know that they're feeding
that tree.
I completely understand that.
If you were to leave,
then you can't leave her behind.
I sort of feel like I.
Yeah, yeah, it's just stupid.
I know it doesn't.
It doesn't really make sense now.
And you've got new life
coming here as well.
Yeah.
This garden is going to
turn into the next chapter.
Yeah.
Our daughter's
having a baby in June, so.
And because she and her husband
chose to come live here
a couple of years ago,
we are now living this kind of life.
So I'm a concierge.
Basically, do the garden, cook, shop.
Which I love.
Yeah, of course,
but it's gone from being silent.
You were saying earlier on that
it was just your own footsteps
that you were here
the first year of,
you know, being widower. You.
Because it's a big house.
It, I was very conscious
of only hearing my own footsteps
in the house.
And then, you know,
a couple of years later.
Olivia said, well,
we're all stuck together in Covid
and doing the last nine
months of Joan's life.
Could we come and live with you?
And I said, well, let's
just try for a year
and see how that goes.
So they've brought their cat
and now they're having a baby.
So we live communally.
Yeah.
Just loads of footsteps
and you can have little ones
running up and down this garden.
It's just it's yeah.
You're going to have I mean will
you have like a slide and a trampoline.
Can you actually can you do that.
Everything okay.
You'll embrace that stage as well.
What else? Are there any other props?
There's I can see in front of me now.
There's a
what is that, a little shed it says.
Yeah. Oilly cottage.
Yeah it says only cottage. Yeah.
Because her daughter's
officially called Olivia,
but because,
before she was born,
we knew we're having a daughter.
And my wife said, you know,
with your long face and your long torso,
what do you think
our child is going to look like?
And I said, olive oil.
So we sort of called her oilly
and it stucked.
So that shed is called Oilly cottage.
She used to play in there, I presume.
She used to play in there
and there’s a little vegetable garden
in front of it.
It's not a fountain.
And, so it's it's now a tool shed.
Are there any other props in here
that you
that you've stolen from sets
and films that you've done before?
Not stolen!
No. Sorry. That you bought.
I have bough,
and they gave to you at great expense.
Oh, there are two plinths
either side of the front door
from Gladiator.
I was, I was working at, Shepperton,
and I saw these plinths on a skip.
And I went to the manager
and I said, if I hire a van, could I?
And he said, well, he's no longer there.
Yeah. So he can't get fired.
So, yeah,
they came from Gladiator,
which sadly I wasn't in,
but I have the two gladiator
plinth outside my house..
And then what's your
favorite part of the garden?
Where do you what do you enjoy being?
I like sitting in that pergola
because there's a fire in there.
And you can.
You're outdoors, but
you're indoors at the same time.
Yeah.
And the back of the house
is that wisteri that you have there?
Yeah, yeah.
What color is it? Purple.
Oh how amazing. And the flowers?
Twice a year. And the scent is absolute.
It's it's gone
right across the entire
front of the border of the garden.
So it smells amazing.
So sorry there's nothing to see now
or smell.
No, but the scent is there
and that's very important to you.
Rifght,
do you want some advice about your box?
Yes, please.
Okay fine.
For some reason that sounds rude,
but I'm going to get some advice
for you, right.
We're going to go in this direction.
Nick is waiting. Okay?
Okay.
Richard, I would like
you to meet our expert,
our RHS garden expert.
Hi Richard, this is Nick.
Thank you. Nick.
He knows a thing or two about box
and he's about to help you.
What's your problem?
Those box caterpillar stuff.
But you know what I love about box?
It smells like fresh armpits.
Yeah, I know you said I've never tried.
I'm gonna have a little go
because you just to the fresh armpit.
Yeah, right.
But actually, it's
really quite nice, isn't it?
I've never actually tried that before.
Love that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I love that with me on that one. Yeah.
So. Yeah. What's what's the problem.
What's happened to your box.
Do you get box blight
or is it the box tree caterpillar.
It's the box tree
caterpillar that came from Southeast
Asia about ten years ago at least.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It just it's just completely decimates
everything. Yellow caterpillars.
Green, beautiful
looking, lovely caterpillars.
But a lot of, a lot of them. Yeah.
And they can decimate things.
So what do I do?
Well,
the only thing you really can
do, it's a bit
like you have to approach them
a bit like slugs.
So there's
no point trying to spray anything.
Nature is only just starting
to get used to them
because they've only been
in the country ten, 15 years.
So at first
nobody really knew what to do.
Like the birds and what's this?
But now
starlings, magpies,
blue tits are starting to think, oh,
which is good
because they might start eating them.
I mean, it's sort of anecdotal.
We haven't done the research, but
from what we're hearing,
yeah, a lot of people have seen them
and wasps will eat them as well,
which is great.
But otherwise.
So there is a point to wasps .
Indeed. Indeed. I
know, I know, isn't it
great when you see one fly
and you take one of those off?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But otherwise it's really just a case
of getting out there
like you do with the slugs.
Yeah.
Picking them off
I mean they don't you know, they're not
they're not fast.
Well, maybe someone should,
you know, develop a recipe that. Yeah.
Because there's always plenty
I gladly do them and you do it.
And the problem is
that they'll
have more than one generation
in one season.
So, like, they'll start off
in sort of March, April time.
And you see them all,
you know, eating away
and you think right, okay.
Out there taking them off.
But then in a few months time
they can have
another generation of caterpillars.
So it's a tricky one.
But there are lots of box
alternative plants now.
So there's a Euonymus.
I mean there's a few, at Wisley,
we've got a whole
garden just dedicated to box alternatives
because it's such a big problem.
So many people have had problems.
Yeah.
So, so there are loads of,
you know, clipped.
It’s quite a formal look.
So you've got low
hedges and shapes and all sorts,
but none of it is box.
It’s Euonymus,
so there's okay
so there's Euonymus
japonicus ‘Green Spire’.
Okay.
That looks I think the closest to box.
And you can topiary it?
Yep you can clip it.
You've actually got some in this garden.
I've just seen it.
Really.
You've got some in this garden okay.
And it looks exactly like box.
But that's I think
trying to go,
trying to outwit it basically.
So either you get out there,
pick the caterpillars off
or you just think, right okay.
Clearly it's going to love box.
So let's go with something else.
And you do the topiary yourself.
So you're out there
doing the thing myself.
No I don't I don't do that.
I've got a little stihl thing. Yeah.
They're nice. Yeah, yeah.
Hedge trimmers. Yeah.
They're good.
Yeah, yeah I think one day to do it.
Yeah yeah yeah.
And it's quite a satisfying job.
It's incrediblle.
It's like getting your whole garden
a haircut.
Yeah it is. Yeah.
Yeah I love that.
And I love the bit
you've got over there
where you've kind of created clouds.
That creates movement.
I think that looks really nice
rather than just straight formal.
You can, you can come again.
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah.
Has that helped?
Yes it has. Good. Thank you Nick.
So unfortunately it's just vigilance.
Yes. Okay. And when it comes too..
Nick is not going to leave my house.
I’m keeping him here.
Blight. Tell us about box blight.
So box bliight is completely different
because that's a disease okay.
So that means that
if the conditions are right, i.e.
warm and humid,
then there's a chance
you'll get box blight.
Okay.
It's not as bad as I mean.
So this area,
this garden is quite enclosed.
You know, you've got lots of other.
So it prevents air flow coming through.
So if you've got warm, humid conditions,
you've got spores in the air,
they land on the leaves.
It's like a little petri dish
that's going to start to grow.
But if you've got the ventilation
drying those leaves,
then box blight is less likely
to actually start coming to fruition.
But do you ever have box blight?
Is it just the caterpillar. Yeah.
So that's good.
So that means that
and then you've got good circulation.
There's plenty of ventilation. Yeah.
So it's not as bad.
It's the caterpillar really.
That's the one that gets everybody.
Euonymus....
Euonymus, Green Spire,
Yeah I find
I find that works very nicely.
Yeah, yeah.
Nick, thank you for the very welcome.
You're welcome.
Yes. So grateful, thank you..
Shall we go and see your euonymus? Yes.
I am so ready for
this warmth to come into the pergola.
Oh,
this is such an amazing space.
The view, the way everything's framed.
And I was saying that the color.
There's threads of red and yellow
and then the green.
The contrast
to just the such artistry to this garden.
Thank you.
You can come anytime you want.
Well, I would love
I would love to come back again
another time and be here
at four in the morning
chatting with you and being entertained.
I'll deejay for you.
How about we do that?
This is on record.
Okay? Yes, please.
Fine. It's a date. Okay. Where?
Where do you get your inspiration from?
Do you go to garden centres.
Do you go to open gardens?
Kempton Antiques
Market in Sunbury Racecourse,
which just down the road from me,
20 minutes away, twice a month.
Ardingly.
Chelsea Flower
show every year I've been going
forty years. Yeah, yeah.
You think you've seen me?
I've seen, you know, I hijacked you.
I'm so embarrassed I jumped on you.
One point.
I'm sorry.
Please, can I have a photograph?
You had no idea who I was.
I'm sorry about that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're harpooning for a compliment.
Of course I know.
I followed your entire career.
So Hampton Court Palace, that one.
Amazing.
And there's a new one coming this year
at, badminton, of course.
The first.
First, you know, the have
the horse trials there for years
and their now having a flower show.
And what do you know about it?
Do you know anything about the show
that's going to be happening?
I know the RHS are
really keen
to get out
and about to have new shows
in different areas,
just because they want
to encourage people
to get into gardening, badminton,
it's such an extraordinary estate.
And I think that,
and the gardens are incredible.
And they've got,
they've got around it looks like a pond
in front of an orangery,
but it's a swimming pool as well.
You can swim all year
because it’s heated.
So it's, it's a magical place.
And they've got,
clouds,
cloud shaped box
plants surrounding all of it.
So it's an area, you know, really well.
Yeah. It's going to be special. Yeah.
So you'll be there, I can't wait. Yes.
And when it comes to.
Say you going to Desert Island
and it's just going to be you,
you can take three plants with you. Yes.
Whether they'll grow
or not on a desert island,
I really don't know.
But what would you take with you?
What are your favorites?
Gardenia, of course.
Peony and tulips.
Beautiful.
Any particular favorite tulips?
Parrot tulips. I love parrot tulips.
Do you have them in your garden? I do.
Oh, what colors?
The ones that are red and orange
and sometimes
the red and white ones as well.
Oh, do you like that?
I love that,
I love that, yeah,
I've got them in my garden as well.
They're just extraordinary. Aren’tthey?
They're so exotic.
Yeah, they're really beautiful.
And what about when it comes to garden
tools and implements?
Do you do love a tool?
I've got an electric lawnmower
that I use, you know, with batteries.
Yeah.
So you don't have the cord
to cut through.
And I've got a stihl little
hedge clipper
that's that does all the topiary.
Yeah.
And spades and forks. Yeah.
So if you can take one to your island,
what would it be?
Garden fork.
Garden fork? Yeah. Okay.
What would you take?
What would I take? Secateurs, I think.
I don't know,
I quite like weeding,
so maybe it would be something.
Do you like weeding? No. Do you not?
I find it really cathartic,
because if you,
if you were in a really bad mood
or if you're stressed about something,
and then you go
and then you start weeding
at the end of the session,
you feel great.
You don't have that feeling no.
Mow the lawn. Instead, I like doing that.
Oh, I don't like doing that.
You don't? No. So what do you do?
Do you think that’s a
male thing, I don't know,
maybe it's just a human thing.
Why do you like mowing the lawn?
Because it feels like
when I've been away.
Because I film on location.
So, so often, I find that it's.
Maybe it's like animals
being territorial.
When you come back
and you do do the lawn,
you get into those stripes.
It feels like
everything is in control again.
And the sense of it is your secent.
Yeah. Control and scent. Yeah.
That's what you were all about. Yeah.
Richard E Grant, thank you.
So much for having us around.
It's been such a pleasure.
Such a treat you for having me.
I'm thoroughly inspired.
We have a little thank you gift.
Nick, who is our RHS
garden expert, has brought something
for you.
It's lovely out here, isn't it?
I mean, look at this.
Outdoor roof is going to go up in flames.
I am going to go.
All right. So let's.
It is.
Yeah. That's right. Listen. Okay.
We have got Rosemary.
Look, I mean,
isn't that the best isn't it.
Yeah I know, straighten them.
You have to just
I've got some in my garden
every time I walk past, I have to just.
Yeah. Any time of the year.
It's always there. And I love that.
Yeah.
We've got some nice little long
nosed snips. Yeah.
So when you're working your desk. Yeah.
And you come out
and you snip a few little bits,
put them in a little vase,
while your working.
It's lovely. It's a nice thing.
It's it feels, it's quite,
you know that you were saying
about that sort
of having a really nice tools
that work really well I love these.
They're really quite delicate
and that's really lovely.
So their japanese? Yes.
Yeah. They're super sharp.
Really, really good. Really nice.
A lovely book.
Gardening with scented plants.
Oh thank you. There we are. Look.
Yes I know, even smelling
the inside of the book.
Is that a thing?
Yes, you see.
Oh, it smells so good. Smell that.
And look here we go.
Romantic garden. Wow.
Thank you.
Fantasitic book. Loads of nice ideas.
Little scenes that you set up,
which is pretty much
what you've done in this garden,
actually. You sniff everything.
Everything?
Yeah, I sniffed you the moment I met you.
I'm with you on that.
Yeah,
I will my scent today for you especially.
I was like, I'm
just going to layer it up today.
Oh, I love it.
And a basket for putting all your plants.
Oh my gosh.
So bring it inside. Thank you.
I feel like little Red Riding Hood.
Thank you very much.
What sent you where.
What's your favorite scent that you wear?
Yeah.
It's, lime, marijuana, mandarin.
But the one I've got on
today is Covent Garden,
which is rose ginger, carrots.
And.
Cedar.
Can I smell it? Nice. Yeah.
Oh it's lovely.
Oh. Well Cedar.
I can definitelty smell the cedar.
Thank you. And we've got a friend.
We've got a friend.
Who's this?
This is Neo, and it's our daughter's cat.
And he's a rag doll with blue eyes.
We've got one.
Very, very sociable and often chatty.
They talk a lot. Yeah.
Have you found that?
Yeah. Yeah.
I love ours.
Gorgeous. What a beautifull face.
Thank you. Not you, the cat.