WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:01.520 That proscenium arch, 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:03.280 came from a film 00:00:03.280 --> 00:00:05.360 called Saltburn that I was in. 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:06.400 Nick is not going to be able 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:07.840 to leave my house. 00:00:07.840 --> 00:00:09.120 I'm keeping him here. 00:00:09.120 --> 00:00:10.200 Tell us a showbiz story 00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:11.000 that’s what I’d love to hear. 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:13.840 Oh, errrrr. I'll DJ for you. 00:00:13.840 --> 00:00:15.360 How about we do that? 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:16.800 This is on record. 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:19.800 Okay. Yes, please. 00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:21.600 Hi, and welcome to roots. 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:22.520 I'm Joe Wiley, 00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:24.040 and this is where we meet our great 00:00:24.040 --> 00:00:25.920 RHS Gardening Heroes. 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:26.760 We talk about what 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:27.880 their gardens mean to them, 00:00:27.880 --> 00:00:28.920 why they love it so much, 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:29.960 the plants they love 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:31.560 and the plants they hate. 00:00:31.560 --> 00:00:33.000 Today I'm in Richmond. 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:34.200 I’m in this stunning garden 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:35.040 and very excited 00:00:35.040 --> 00:00:36.720 to meet one of the UK's greatest 00:00:36.720 --> 00:00:38.960 and most loved actors, Richard E Grant. 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:39.640 Let's go meet him. 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:44.960 Oh my gosh, what a garden. 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:47.360 What a garden, What a man. Hello. 00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:49.080 How are you? I'm very good. Thank you. 00:00:49.080 --> 00:00:50.640 I don't think I've ever been in a garden 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:52.000 that has so many stories 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.000 and is such a place of interest before. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:55.160 What a wonderful, wonderful place 00:00:55.160 --> 00:00:55.800 you've created. 00:00:55.800 --> 00:00:56.520 Oh thank you. 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:58.000 It's stuffed with props. 00:00:58.000 --> 00:00:59.280 And every job 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:00.240 that I go on, every film 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:02.280 I'm on, I go to the production department 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:04.040 and try and buy 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:04.680 or bribe 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:07.680 my way to get props or pieces of stuff. 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:09.000 So your life and your work 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:10.720 is here with you at all times, isn't it? 00:01:10.720 --> 00:01:12.440 Your surrounded by it. Exactly. Yep. 00:01:12.440 --> 00:01:13.240 I'm particularly 00:01:13.240 --> 00:01:14.560 loving the balls behind us. 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:15.240 Tell us the story 00:01:15.240 --> 00:01:16.680 while we're here in this position 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:17.720 of where these balls came from. 00:01:17.720 --> 00:01:18.440 Your baubles. 00:01:18.440 --> 00:01:20.400 They were in, a shop window 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:21.880 display of a well-known 00:01:21.880 --> 00:01:24.120 perfumery brand in England. 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:25.280 And after Christmas, 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:26.840 I said, what's happening to all of these? 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:28.200 And they said, 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:29.840 oh, we think we're getting rid of them. 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:31.000 I said, could I buy them all? 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:32.400 And they said, no, we'd be grateful 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:33.560 if you could take them off us. 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:35.160 So I got all of them. 00:01:35.160 --> 00:01:35.560 Wow. 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:37.640 And I like Christmas, as you can see. 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:40.240 So these Christmas lights are on 00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:42.640 every day, all year, day and night. 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:44.520 Beautiful and how did they get there? 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:46.480 Oh, I have no fear of heights. 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:48.240 So just got a ladder. 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:49.080 You did it yourself. 00:01:49.080 --> 00:01:50.400 Yeah. Oh, wow. 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:51.240 And that kind of ties 00:01:51.240 --> 00:01:52.360 in that it's a perfumery 00:01:52.360 --> 00:01:53.760 because you love your scent. 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:55.160 You've got your own scents. 00:01:55.160 --> 00:01:56.160 Tell us a little bit about that. 00:01:56.160 --> 00:01:57.320 Is it Jack? 00:01:57.320 --> 00:01:58.360 Yeah. It's called Jack. 00:01:58.360 --> 00:02:01.560 When I was 12 and I was, 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:03.280 I was living in Swaziland, 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:03.840 where I grew up, 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:05.520 which is now called Eswatini. 00:02:05.520 --> 00:02:08.160 I try to make perfume out of gardenia 00:02:08.160 --> 00:02:10.800 and rose petals boiled up in sugar water. 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:12.960 For an American girl 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:14.360 that I was absolutely madly in love 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:15.360 with called Betty Clapp 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:16.840 with a double pea. 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:18.360 And yeah, it just turned into six 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:19.560 stink bombs. 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:20.560 And then, you know, 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:23.120 45 years later, Anya Hindmarch, 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:24.600 was a fellow houseguest 00:02:24.600 --> 00:02:26.080 on holiday in the Caribbean. 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:27.040 She saw me smelling 00:02:27.040 --> 00:02:29.160 and touching everything, and she said, 00:02:29.160 --> 00:02:31.480 you should do something about this. 00:02:31.480 --> 00:02:32.800 And I said, what? Psychiatrically? 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:33.680 And she said, no, no, no, no, 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:35.640 you should make your own perfume. 00:02:35.640 --> 00:02:39.480 So I then spent six months trying to 00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:41.160 trying to do this. 00:02:41.160 --> 00:02:43.680 How did you do it? What did you do? 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:43.960 Well, 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:45.760 I got all the ingredients that I wanted 00:02:45.760 --> 00:02:46.680 because I love cooking. 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.560 So it's the same process that I took. 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:54.320 Lime, mandarin and marijuana 00:02:54.320 --> 00:02:56.240 and put them put these oils 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:58.120 into a combination mixture. 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:00.880 And then I got in contact with a 00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:02.040 professional French nose 00:03:02.040 --> 00:03:04.440 in Paris called Aliénor Massenet. 00:03:04.440 --> 00:03:06.120 And together we worked for six months 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:07.080 backwards and forwards 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.080 until the scent was exactly 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:12.080 as I had imagined it in my head. 00:03:12.160 --> 00:03:13.960 And then launched it at Liberty. 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:15.560 And it won awards and, 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:16.640 you know, became a bestseller. 00:03:16.640 --> 00:03:18.080 So that's that's how it's started. 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:19.760 How wonderful. Yeah, yeah. 00:03:19.760 --> 00:03:21.480 So you've always been drawn to scent. 00:03:21.480 --> 00:03:22.320 So this garden, 00:03:22.320 --> 00:03:24.480 I presume, is a garden of scent. 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:25.960 Oh, I wish it's evergreen 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:26.640 for the most part. 00:03:26.640 --> 00:03:28.320 So, only roses 00:03:28.320 --> 00:03:29.480 are the only thing that are scented 00:03:29.480 --> 00:03:31.040 and honeysuckle that’s it. 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:33.040 Is there no gardenia in here? 00:03:33.040 --> 00:03:33.840 It's too cold. 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:35.920 I've got them indoors. 00:03:35.920 --> 00:03:36.720 Yeah, yeah, 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:38.520 but it's dictated by the environment 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:39.120 where you are, 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:39.600 what you've been able 00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:40.480 to do in the garden. 00:03:40.480 --> 00:03:42.600 I think gardenia is the most. 00:03:42.600 --> 00:03:44.440 It's the holy grail of scent for me, 00:03:44.440 --> 00:03:47.640 because it's the one white flower that's 00:03:48.200 --> 00:03:48.840 so far 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:52.440 has defied all industrial extraction. 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:55.800 So the fact that every gardenia is on 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:58.800 the market is an invented one, 00:03:58.920 --> 00:04:00.000 rather than the real thing. 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.000 Makes it even more, 00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:04.600 holy grail like for me. 00:04:04.600 --> 00:04:06.480 So I think it's the most erotic smell 00:04:06.480 --> 00:04:07.800 on the planet. 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:09.600 My friend, I was talking to my producer. 00:04:09.600 --> 00:04:10.680 My radio producer was saying 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:11.360 that she was walking 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:12.840 through Selfridges once, 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:13.800 and you were there 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:14.760 and you were spraying people 00:04:14.760 --> 00:04:15.520 with your scent 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:17.600 that you were actually hands on. 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:19.120 Like, would you like to try this? 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:20.040 Would you like to try this? 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:20.960 And you were spraying people, 00:04:20.960 --> 00:04:23.040 so I was the passion is deep 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:24.160 and you were selling your product. 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:25.920 Obviously I know they give you a week 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:27.240 to go and launch your product. 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:30.200 So I did that about eight years ago. 00:04:30.200 --> 00:04:31.920 Yeah. How wonderful. 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:33.000 Are you developing any more scent? 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:33.240 Where 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:34.080 where are you at with 00:04:34.080 --> 00:04:37.360 I am I've got well I've done Jack, 00:04:38.520 --> 00:04:39.640 the original one with the 00:04:39.640 --> 00:04:41.200 lime, marijuana and mandarin. 00:04:41.200 --> 00:04:43.720 And then I did Jack Covent Garden, 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:45.520 Jack Piccadilly, 69, 00:04:45.520 --> 00:04:47.160 and then Jack Richmond. 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:48.360 So they're all 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:49.640 in London with stories 00:04:49.640 --> 00:04:52.480 that are related to my life. 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:53.720 Yeah, just remind us 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:54.400 why they called Jack. 00:04:54.400 --> 00:04:55.840 Well, tell us why they call Jack. 00:04:55.840 --> 00:04:58.160 Oh, because I didn't want them to be, 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.080 I wanted the packaging to be 00:05:00.080 --> 00:05:01.280 pillarbox red 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:02.360 and that it would be something 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:03.720 quintessentially British, 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:04.720 rather than trying to pretend 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:06.920 that you're French and, Right. 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:07.560 All that, 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:10.560 I find it very embarrassing when you read 00:05:11.080 --> 00:05:12.600 the notes on perfumes. 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:13.120 When they say, 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:15.120 well, there was a swish of a tiger's tail 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:15.880 when I was walking 00:05:15.880 --> 00:05:17.560 with my aunt in the Himalayas. 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:19.200 And this reminded me of, 00:05:19.200 --> 00:05:21.480 I find all that very embarrassing. 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:25.680 So, when somebody saw the, 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:29.200 at Liberty said the the pillarbox red 00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:30.520 and it comes in a 00:05:30.520 --> 00:05:32.960 Union Jack calico bag inside. 00:05:34.280 --> 00:05:35.680 They said, why don't you call it Jack? 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:36.480 So I thought, well, 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:36.760 I know 00:05:36.760 --> 00:05:37.760 I found out how many, 00:05:37.760 --> 00:05:40.760 because it’s unisex, whether there were 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:42.400 how many women are called Jack? 00:05:42.400 --> 00:05:43.560 And I found there a fair number. 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:44.800 So that's that's. 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:46.320 So no pretension. Just. 00:05:46.320 --> 00:05:48.640 Just a beautiful scent. Yeah. Okay. 00:05:48.640 --> 00:05:49.560 Can we have a wander around, 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:50.680 closing the rest of your garden? 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:52.040 Because there must be so many stories, 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:52.680 and I would love to 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:53.640 find out so much more. 00:05:53.640 --> 00:05:55.440 There's something of that as catch my eye 00:05:55.440 --> 00:05:56.760 over there that's catching my eye. 00:05:56.760 --> 00:05:58.000 So should we wander this way? 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:01.000 Okay, okay. 00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:03.240 Hang on. 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:04.360 Richard, tell me, where are we now? 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:05.240 What are we going under? 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:06.960 We've got candelabras above our heads. 00:06:06.960 --> 00:06:09.960 Yeah, these these prop columns came from 00:06:09.960 --> 00:06:11.040 a film, 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:11.920 called persuasion 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:13.920 that I was in with Dakota Johnson. 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:14.760 So at the end of those, 00:06:14.760 --> 00:06:16.680 I snaffled them off and said, 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:18.080 could I have them? 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:19.800 So that's why they're here. 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:21.440 That's why they're there. 00:06:21.440 --> 00:06:22.480 And behind us 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:23.560 just took us through 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:24.400 what we have behind us. 00:06:24.400 --> 00:06:26.840 I can see Barbara, Barbara Streisand. 00:06:26.840 --> 00:06:27.240 Yes. 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:30.600 The so the that proscenium arch, 00:06:30.760 --> 00:06:32.520 came from a film 00:06:32.520 --> 00:06:35.640 called Saltburn that I was in that film, 00:06:35.640 --> 00:06:36.280 that little film, 00:06:36.280 --> 00:06:38.680 that one that shocked some people. 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:39.600 And at the end of it, 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:40.320 there was a big 00:06:40.320 --> 00:06:42.320 outdoor party scene for Barry Keoghan's 00:06:42.320 --> 00:06:44.320 character's birthday. 00:06:44.320 --> 00:06:45.360 And I said, 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.600 could I possibly buy that afterwards? 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:49.200 And they said, no, 00:06:49.200 --> 00:06:51.240 it's all going to be scrapped and dumped 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:53.080 because storage cost too much. 00:06:53.080 --> 00:06:55.320 So I said, could I have it in the garden? 00:06:55.320 --> 00:06:56.400 So they did. 00:06:56.400 --> 00:06:57.680 And I had already commissioned 00:06:57.680 --> 00:06:59.040 a, two foot 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:00.040 tall sculpture of Barbara 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:01.520 Streisand's head. 00:07:01.520 --> 00:07:02.680 So it's now 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:04.560 given a proscenium arch for her, 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:08.400 and she has she seen the pictures of it. 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:09.600 Tell me, tell me about the conversation. 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:10.160 So how did you that 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:11.800 you've obviously told her. 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:13.240 Oh, I've been a lifelong obsessive, 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.000 a Streisand fanatic. 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:15.640 And you're supposed 00:07:15.640 --> 00:07:16.920 to grow out of this phase, 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:18.600 you know, when you reach adolescence, 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:20.520 which, clearly I'm still stuck at. 00:07:20.520 --> 00:07:21.800 And, 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:24.960 so I then I was a Donna Karan’s house 00:07:24.960 --> 00:07:26.280 in the East Hamptons, 00:07:26.280 --> 00:07:29.880 six years ago, and I set a 00:07:29.960 --> 00:07:31.560 I had a 1 to 1 conversation 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:33.240 this close to Barbra Streisand. 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:34.600 And I said at the end of it, 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:35.600 I have something to confess, 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:36.920 and she said, what's that? 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:38.160 I said, I've commissioned a two foot 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:40.160 tall sculpture of your head 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:41.440 favoring your left profile, 00:07:41.440 --> 00:07:43.240 which is what she likes to be shot from. 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:44.840 For my garden. 00:07:44.840 --> 00:07:45.920 And she said, you're crazy. 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:46.720 And I said, yes, 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:47.760 I know that, you know that. 00:07:47.760 --> 00:07:49.480 And she said, no, you are really crazy. 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:50.680 I don't know anybody else 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:52.200 that has commissioned a statue like that. 00:07:52.200 --> 00:07:54.080 So she's seen it. 00:07:54.080 --> 00:07:56.280 Not in person yet. 00:07:56.280 --> 00:07:57.240 I live in hope. 00:07:57.240 --> 00:07:58.800 So that's why it's here. 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:01.080 And my late wife, you know, I said. 00:08:01.080 --> 00:08:02.440 I said when we got married, 00:08:02.440 --> 00:08:03.960 you are going to have to live 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:06.920 like somebody else famously 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:07.920 said, there are three people 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:08.640 in this marriage. 00:08:08.640 --> 00:08:09.480 And, 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:11.160 she said, that's absolutely fine 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:11.640 because she was 00:08:11.640 --> 00:08:12.480 she was also a fan, 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:14.760 not my level of obsession, 00:08:14.760 --> 00:08:16.200 of Streisand as well. 00:08:16.200 --> 00:08:17.720 But it was you, Joan and Barbara, 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:19.840 the threesome. Yeah. 00:08:19.840 --> 00:08:20.880 What was Barbara's reaction 00:08:20.880 --> 00:08:22.480 when she saw this? 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:22.760 I know 00:08:22.760 --> 00:08:23.280 not in the flesh, 00:08:23.280 --> 00:08:24.240 but when you showed her the picture. 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:25.240 What did she say? 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:28.240 She thought that it was a very accurate, 00:08:28.960 --> 00:08:31.080 representation of her profile. 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:32.240 Oh, my gosh. 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:34.440 So this. You're crazy. 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:36.480 Your absolutely crazy. Yeah. 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:37.440 She's a massive gardener 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:38.120 herself, isn't she? 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:39.520 She's obsessed with roses, 00:08:39.520 --> 00:08:40.520 having interviewed. 00:08:40.520 --> 00:08:41.440 I interviewed her and she. 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:43.440 Yeah, she was just talking about roses. 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:44.440 What they meant to her. 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:46.520 A lot for a long time. 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:50.280 But what about you and gardening is this. 00:08:50.280 --> 00:08:51.720 Do you have a gardener? Is... 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:54.240 No, I do it. Your the gardener? Yeah. 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:55.920 So I love mowing the lawn. 00:08:55.920 --> 00:08:58.920 Once a week, and, 00:08:59.000 --> 00:08:59.720 I've. 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:00.960 I planted 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:02.400 because when I, 00:09:02.400 --> 00:09:03.760 where I grew up in Swaziland, 00:09:03.760 --> 00:09:06.760 the season changes weren't as dramatic 00:09:06.880 --> 00:09:10.280 as they are in, in England, so I wanted 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:13.480 not something be all dead in the winter. 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:16.080 So I planted as much evergreen 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:16.640 as possible. 00:09:16.640 --> 00:09:19.440 So yew and box as you can see. Yeah. 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:22.040 Because the things that I have. Yeah. 00:09:22.040 --> 00:09:23.040 And this 00:09:23.040 --> 00:09:24.440 garden must have so many happy memories. 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:25.560 I mean, for you and Joan. 00:09:25.560 --> 00:09:27.600 You spent a lot of time in this garden. 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:28.240 Yeah. We did. 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:28.760 She was 00:09:28.760 --> 00:09:29.720 she was absolutely love 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:31.640 gardening as well as I did. 00:09:31.640 --> 00:09:34.720 And up until I suppose the age of 30, 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:36.000 I never really thought about gardens 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.160 because I grew up with a beautiful garden 00:09:38.160 --> 00:09:39.480 where I was born. 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:40.760 But I never thought of making 00:09:40.760 --> 00:09:41.880 a garden myself. 00:09:41.880 --> 00:09:43.400 So, I thought, 00:09:43.400 --> 00:09:44.680 well, what are the evergreen plants? 00:09:44.680 --> 00:09:47.240 So I went to the encyclopedia, 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:50.000 RHS thing. 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:51.400 And then found that box 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:53.760 Yew and 00:09:53.760 --> 00:09:54.200 Ivy were 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:54.600 the things 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:57.600 that would look good all year round. 00:09:57.640 --> 00:09:59.040 So what was it like when you came here? 00:09:59.040 --> 00:09:59.920 So there was. 00:09:59.920 --> 00:10:01.120 Was it just a blank canvas? 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:04.560 This this acacia tree, was still alive 00:10:04.560 --> 00:10:05.280 at that point 00:10:05.280 --> 00:10:06.640 and had died 00:10:06.640 --> 00:10:07.440 and looks like something 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:08.400 out of Sleepy Hollow. 00:10:08.400 --> 00:10:11.080 So I planted ivy all the way around it 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:13.160 rather than taking taking it down. 00:10:13.160 --> 00:10:14.880 You can hang baubles from it. 00:10:14.880 --> 00:10:16.160 So. 00:10:16.160 --> 00:10:18.280 And all the trees on that side 00:10:18.280 --> 00:10:21.280 I got from a nursery in Surrey 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:23.680 and had them trucked in 00:10:23.680 --> 00:10:26.240 because there was nothing. Yeah. So. 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:26.640 Well. 00:10:26.640 --> 00:10:28.080 And are you quite hands on with digging 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:29.240 and putting the trees in 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:29.840 or do everything. 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:31.760 Yeah. Literally do everything yourself. 00:10:31.760 --> 00:10:32.360 Okay. 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:35.360 And, and the rest of the... 00:10:35.400 --> 00:10:37.000 I mean I have to have help to do this. 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:38.240 You don't have help. 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:40.240 Is it helpful for you mentally? 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:40.840 Is is it 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:41.920 something that you physically 00:10:41.920 --> 00:10:42.760 really enjoy doing? 00:10:42.760 --> 00:10:44.520 I think I think going in the garden 00:10:44.520 --> 00:10:46.440 every day and doing something 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:47.440 because you, you're it's 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:48.480 constant maintenance, 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:51.960 as you know, from having a garden, 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:54.520 and I spent an absolute fortune on 00:10:54.520 --> 00:10:55.320 box plants 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:56.440 and replacing them because 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:57.920 of the dreaded box 00:10:58.920 --> 00:11:00.440 moth caterpillar that came in 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:02.040 to the country about ten years ago. 00:11:02.040 --> 00:11:03.600 So we're going to get you some advice 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:04.080 about that. 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:04.960 We have an expert, so we’ll 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:06.720 get you some advice about that. Yeah. 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:07.480 Thank you. 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:11.000 And in terms of I mean, I imagine 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:12.240 obviously you love a party. 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.400 So you must have amazing parties here. 00:11:14.400 --> 00:11:14.720 Yeah. 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:16.840 We have a Halloween party here every. 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:19.920 Yeah, every October for about 120 people. 00:11:19.920 --> 00:11:22.080 So, that pergola outside 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.000 is really good for 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:25.440 dancing and feeding people. 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:26.720 Yeah. Tell me about the pergola. 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:27.880 Where did that come from? 00:11:27.880 --> 00:11:30.880 I. 00:11:32.640 --> 00:11:34.920 Basically bribed four carpenters 00:11:34.920 --> 00:11:36.720 to come from Gloucestershire. 00:11:38.520 --> 00:11:41.040 And I said I'd cook for them 00:11:41.040 --> 00:11:43.840 and, you know, put them up 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:44.760 if they could do that 00:11:44.760 --> 00:11:46.840 in four days for a Halloween party 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:47.960 four years ago. 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:49.520 And so since the last minute idea of, 00:11:49.520 --> 00:11:50.880 like I said, I want a pergola. 00:11:50.880 --> 00:11:52.440 They did. Yeah. 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:53.600 And now it's a great place to sit 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:54.720 because there's a fire inside 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:57.600 and you can sit there most of the year 00:11:57.600 --> 00:11:58.720 and keep warm Yeah. 00:11:58.720 --> 00:11:59.760 Quite often that's the problem isn't it. 00:11:59.760 --> 00:12:00.280 You've got a garden 00:12:00.280 --> 00:12:01.160 but you want to entertain. 00:12:01.160 --> 00:12:02.760 But a climate is not amazing for that. 00:12:02.760 --> 00:12:05.320 So so that's an extension of the house 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:07.440 and it's a part of the social hub. Yeah. 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:08.240 And it's more 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:10.640 because I'm a hoarder collector. 00:12:10.640 --> 00:12:12.080 I could 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:14.120 put more and more stuff in there. 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:16.680 And who have you had around that fire? 00:12:16.680 --> 00:12:18.480 Who what kind of is that? 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:19.520 Tell us a showbiz story. 00:12:19.520 --> 00:12:20.320 That's what I'd love to hear. 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:23.120 Oh, who've you entertained here? 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:24.760 Melissa McCarthy, Meryl Streep. 00:12:24.760 --> 00:12:27.920 Paul Rudd. 00:12:27.920 --> 00:12:32.160 Meera syal. 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:33.800 Steve Martin, Martin Shaw 00:12:33.800 --> 00:12:35.520 Catherine O'Hara, the late. Great. 00:12:35.520 --> 00:12:36.800 Oh, lots of people. 00:12:36.800 --> 00:12:38.400 Yeah. And it's. 00:12:38.400 --> 00:12:39.880 I've been around so long, you know, I've. 00:12:39.880 --> 00:12:41.600 People I've worked with, 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:42.920 you know, come round. 00:12:42.920 --> 00:12:43.480 And what happened. 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:44.760 So do you drink? 00:12:44.760 --> 00:12:46.560 Do you play games? Do you do? 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:47.360 Well allergic to alochol.. 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:48.840 So they drink? Yeah. 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:49.480 They drink. 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:50.640 And I love cooking 00:12:50.640 --> 00:12:52.200 and barbecuing as well. 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:54.560 So, Yeah, I like entertaining. 00:12:54.560 --> 00:12:55.080 Yeah. 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:56.080 So good conversation 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:57.800 into the how late into the night. 00:12:57.800 --> 00:12:58.760 What's, what's the latest 00:12:58.760 --> 00:13:00.160 you've been in this garden entertaining, 00:13:00.160 --> 00:13:00.720 talking to people? 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:02.960 5 a.m. and dancing. 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:03.560 And because there's 00:13:03.560 --> 00:13:05.560 a graveyard over the wall, you can. 00:13:05.560 --> 00:13:07.920 You can play music pretty loudly here. 00:13:07.920 --> 00:13:09.960 And the kitchen, the. 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:11.920 So, yeah, there'd be no complaints. 00:13:11.920 --> 00:13:12.960 So loudspeakers out there. 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:14.800 What kind of music? But who do you like? 00:13:14.800 --> 00:13:15.840 I mean, I'm a music person, 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:19.800 so I'd love to know, everything from, 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:22.200 I suppose, Motown. 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:24.800 Onwards to now. Yeah, yeah. 00:13:24.800 --> 00:13:26.640 And our daughter got married 00:13:26.640 --> 00:13:30.120 here in the garden a year ago, so 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:31.960 we had a brilliant DJ 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:34.360 who played everything from 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:35.960 all the stuff that you, you know about. 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:37.040 I'm not going to. Yeah. 00:13:37.040 --> 00:13:37.960 Embarrass myself by naming names.. 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:40.800 It feels like a very happy garden. 00:13:40.800 --> 00:13:41.680 Oh, yeah. 00:13:41.680 --> 00:13:42.800 Yeah, really? 00:13:42.800 --> 00:13:43.240 Like, it's 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:45.360 seen a lot of living in this garden. 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:46.320 Hugely. 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:47.600 And when when you lost Joan, was it 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:49.280 a place of solace for you as well? 00:13:49.280 --> 00:13:50.640 Was it did it help? It was. 00:13:50.640 --> 00:13:53.640 And she said to me, you know, please. 00:13:54.640 --> 00:13:57.000 Bury my ashes under a cherry tree. 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.760 And I, I said, yes, I would do that, 00:13:59.760 --> 00:14:00.840 but I've, 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:03.840 I've not brought myself to do that yet 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:05.520 because, you know, rationally, 00:14:05.520 --> 00:14:07.800 I understand that that's what she wanted. 00:14:07.800 --> 00:14:08.400 But emotionally, 00:14:08.400 --> 00:14:09.720 I sort of feel that even this 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:10.800 just box of ashes 00:14:10.800 --> 00:14:11.680 that I've got 00:14:11.680 --> 00:14:12.480 is the last thing 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:14.760 that I physically have of her. 00:14:14.760 --> 00:14:16.400 So I haven't buried them because I will. 00:14:16.400 --> 00:14:17.400 If I leave this house, 00:14:17.400 --> 00:14:19.120 then I can't take the ashes with me 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:20.400 and you have to have her with you. 00:14:20.400 --> 00:14:21.480 Yeah,. At all times. 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:22.800 Where is she now? 00:14:22.800 --> 00:14:24.600 In a box inside the house. 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:25.400 Yeah. 00:14:25.400 --> 00:14:26.280 I don't blame you. 00:14:26.280 --> 00:14:28.120 I don't blame you. Yeah, we lost our. 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:29.200 This is not comparable to you 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:29.880 losing Joan at all. 00:14:29.880 --> 00:14:30.880 But we lost our dogs. 00:14:30.880 --> 00:14:32.640 And we had a tree planted last year, 00:14:32.640 --> 00:14:34.520 and it was really lovely 00:14:34.520 --> 00:14:35.920 to have them beneath that tree 00:14:35.920 --> 00:14:36.840 and to know that they're feeding 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:37.360 that tree. 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.560 I completely understand that. 00:14:39.560 --> 00:14:40.480 If you were to leave, 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:41.720 then you can't leave her behind. 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:42.880 I sort of feel like I. 00:14:42.880 --> 00:14:44.920 Yeah, yeah, it's just stupid. 00:14:44.920 --> 00:14:45.880 I know it doesn't. 00:14:45.880 --> 00:14:48.000 It doesn't really make sense now. 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:48.760 And you've got new life 00:14:48.760 --> 00:14:49.920 coming here as well. 00:14:49.920 --> 00:14:50.240 Yeah. 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:51.280 This garden is going to 00:14:51.280 --> 00:14:52.880 turn into the next chapter. 00:14:52.880 --> 00:14:53.120 Yeah. 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:53.640 Our daughter's 00:14:53.640 --> 00:14:56.640 having a baby in June, so. 00:14:57.120 --> 00:14:58.360 And because she and her husband 00:14:58.360 --> 00:14:59.520 chose to come live here 00:14:59.520 --> 00:15:00.800 a couple of years ago, 00:15:00.800 --> 00:15:03.600 we are now living this kind of life. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:04.440 So I'm a concierge. 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:07.360 Basically, do the garden, cook, shop. 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:08.640 Which I love. 00:15:08.640 --> 00:15:09.840 Yeah, of course, 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:10.880 but it's gone from being silent. 00:15:10.880 --> 00:15:11.760 You were saying earlier on that 00:15:11.760 --> 00:15:13.160 it was just your own footsteps 00:15:13.160 --> 00:15:13.920 that you were here 00:15:13.920 --> 00:15:14.720 the first year of, 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:16.200 you know, being widower. You. 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:17.280 Because it's a big house. 00:15:17.280 --> 00:15:19.200 It, I was very conscious 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:21.240 of only hearing my own footsteps 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:22.120 in the house. 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:23.440 And then, you know, 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:24.720 a couple of years later. 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:25.760 Olivia said, well, 00:15:25.760 --> 00:15:27.520 we're all stuck together in Covid 00:15:27.520 --> 00:15:28.440 and doing the last nine 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:29.560 months of Joan's life. 00:15:29.560 --> 00:15:30.720 Could we come and live with you? 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:31.400 And I said, well, let's 00:15:31.400 --> 00:15:32.320 just try for a year 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:33.360 and see how that goes. 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:34.640 So they've brought their cat 00:15:34.640 --> 00:15:35.720 and now they're having a baby. 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:37.440 So we live communally. 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:37.920 Yeah. 00:15:37.920 --> 00:15:38.800 Just loads of footsteps 00:15:38.800 --> 00:15:39.600 and you can have little ones 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:40.800 running up and down this garden. 00:15:40.800 --> 00:15:41.760 It's just it's yeah. 00:15:41.760 --> 00:15:42.800 You're going to have I mean will 00:15:42.800 --> 00:15:45.240 you have like a slide and a trampoline. 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:46.760 Can you actually can you do that. 00:15:46.760 --> 00:15:47.640 Everything okay. 00:15:47.640 --> 00:15:49.440 You'll embrace that stage as well. 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:50.880 What else? Are there any other props? 00:15:50.880 --> 00:15:52.240 There's I can see in front of me now. 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:53.280 There's a 00:15:53.280 --> 00:15:55.200 what is that, a little shed it says. 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:55.880 Yeah. Oilly cottage. 00:15:55.880 --> 00:15:57.040 Yeah it says only cottage. Yeah. 00:15:57.040 --> 00:15:58.280 Because her daughter's 00:15:58.280 --> 00:15:59.400 officially called Olivia, 00:15:59.400 --> 00:16:00.800 but because, 00:16:00.800 --> 00:16:02.720 before she was born, 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:03.960 we knew we're having a daughter. 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:05.440 And my wife said, you know, 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:08.040 with your long face and your long torso, 00:16:08.040 --> 00:16:08.760 what do you think 00:16:08.760 --> 00:16:09.960 our child is going to look like? 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:11.280 And I said, olive oil. 00:16:11.280 --> 00:16:13.400 So we sort of called her oilly 00:16:13.400 --> 00:16:15.040 and it stucked. 00:16:15.040 --> 00:16:17.600 So that shed is called Oilly cottage. 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:18.840 She used to play in there, I presume. 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:19.680 She used to play in there 00:16:19.680 --> 00:16:20.880 and there’s a little vegetable garden 00:16:20.880 --> 00:16:21.400 in front of it. 00:16:21.400 --> 00:16:22.560 It's not a fountain. 00:16:22.560 --> 00:16:25.560 And, so it's it's now a tool shed. 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:27.520 Are there any other props in here 00:16:27.520 --> 00:16:28.320 that you 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:29.520 that you've stolen from sets 00:16:29.520 --> 00:16:30.640 and films that you've done before? 00:16:30.640 --> 00:16:31.280 Not stolen! 00:16:31.280 --> 00:16:32.480 No. Sorry. That you bought. 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:33.200 I have bough, 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:35.280 and they gave to you at great expense. 00:16:35.280 --> 00:16:39.160 Oh, there are two plinths 00:16:39.520 --> 00:16:40.880 either side of the front door 00:16:40.880 --> 00:16:42.800 from Gladiator. 00:16:42.800 --> 00:16:45.920 I was, I was working at, Shepperton, 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:49.120 and I saw these plinths on a skip. 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:50.120 And I went to the manager 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:53.120 and I said, if I hire a van, could I? 00:16:53.400 --> 00:16:56.160 And he said, well, he's no longer there. 00:16:56.160 --> 00:16:58.720 Yeah. So he can't get fired. 00:16:58.720 --> 00:16:59.440 So, yeah, 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:00.520 they came from Gladiator, 00:17:00.520 --> 00:17:01.920 which sadly I wasn't in, 00:17:01.920 --> 00:17:03.200 but I have the two gladiator 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:04.240 plinth outside my house.. 00:17:06.320 --> 00:17:07.200 And then what's your 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:08.040 favorite part of the garden? 00:17:08.040 --> 00:17:09.920 Where do you what do you enjoy being? 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:11.160 I like sitting in that pergola 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:12.760 because there's a fire in there. 00:17:12.760 --> 00:17:14.840 And you can. 00:17:14.840 --> 00:17:17.360 You're outdoors, but 00:17:17.360 --> 00:17:18.760 you're indoors at the same time. 00:17:18.760 --> 00:17:19.680 Yeah. 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:21.680 And the back of the house 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:23.840 is that wisteri that you have there? 00:17:23.840 --> 00:17:24.240 Yeah, yeah. 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:25.800 What color is it? Purple. 00:17:25.800 --> 00:17:27.160 Oh how amazing. And the flowers? 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:29.040 Twice a year. And the scent is absolute. 00:17:29.040 --> 00:17:30.000 It's it's gone 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:31.520 right across the entire 00:17:31.520 --> 00:17:33.440 front of the border of the garden. 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:34.720 So it smells amazing. 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:35.920 So sorry there's nothing to see now 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:36.480 or smell. 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:37.840 No, but the scent is there 00:17:37.840 --> 00:17:38.920 and that's very important to you. 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:39.120 Rifght, 00:17:39.120 --> 00:17:40.680 do you want some advice about your box? 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:41.440 Yes, please. 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:42.480 Okay fine. 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:43.640 For some reason that sounds rude, 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:44.640 but I'm going to get some advice 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:45.080 for you, right. 00:17:45.080 --> 00:17:46.040 We're going to go in this direction. 00:17:46.040 --> 00:17:47.440 Nick is waiting. Okay? 00:17:49.280 --> 00:17:49.560 Okay. 00:17:49.560 --> 00:17:50.400 Richard, I would like 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:51.480 you to meet our expert, 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:53.040 our RHS garden expert. 00:17:53.040 --> 00:17:54.400 Hi Richard, this is Nick. 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:54.960 Thank you. Nick. 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:57.360 He knows a thing or two about box 00:17:57.360 --> 00:17:58.400 and he's about to help you. 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:00.440 What's your problem? 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:03.080 Those box caterpillar stuff. 00:18:03.080 --> 00:18:04.480 But you know what I love about box? 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:05.920 It smells like fresh armpits. 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:07.760 Yeah, I know you said I've never tried. 00:18:07.760 --> 00:18:08.520 I'm gonna have a little go 00:18:08.520 --> 00:18:10.320 because you just to the fresh armpit. 00:18:10.320 --> 00:18:11.840 Yeah, right. 00:18:11.840 --> 00:18:12.840 But actually, it's 00:18:12.840 --> 00:18:14.360 really quite nice, isn't it? 00:18:14.360 --> 00:18:15.720 I've never actually tried that before. 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:16.000 Love that. 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:16.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:18.240 I love that with me on that one. Yeah. 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:19.800 So. Yeah. What's what's the problem. 00:18:19.800 --> 00:18:21.320 What's happened to your box. 00:18:21.320 --> 00:18:23.040 Do you get box blight 00:18:23.040 --> 00:18:24.280 or is it the box tree caterpillar. 00:18:24.280 --> 00:18:24.960 It's the box tree 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:26.560 caterpillar that came from Southeast 00:18:26.560 --> 00:18:28.680 Asia about ten years ago at least. 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:29.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:18:29.560 --> 00:18:31.960 It just it's just completely decimates 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:33.800 everything. Yellow caterpillars. 00:18:33.800 --> 00:18:35.000 Green, beautiful 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:36.080 looking, lovely caterpillars. 00:18:36.080 --> 00:18:38.040 But a lot of, a lot of them. Yeah. 00:18:38.040 --> 00:18:39.680 And they can decimate things. 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:41.160 So what do I do? 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:41.520 Well, 00:18:41.520 --> 00:18:42.880 the only thing you really can 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:43.400 do, it's a bit 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:44.320 like you have to approach them 00:18:44.320 --> 00:18:45.840 a bit like slugs. 00:18:45.840 --> 00:18:46.440 So there's 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:48.000 no point trying to spray anything. 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:49.560 Nature is only just starting 00:18:49.560 --> 00:18:50.720 to get used to them 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:51.400 because they've only been 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:53.600 in the country ten, 15 years. 00:18:53.600 --> 00:18:54.480 So at first 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:55.560 nobody really knew what to do. 00:18:55.560 --> 00:18:57.320 Like the birds and what's this? 00:18:57.320 --> 00:18:57.840 But now 00:18:57.840 --> 00:18:59.480 starlings, magpies, 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:02.000 blue tits are starting to think, oh, 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:02.640 which is good 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:04.160 because they might start eating them. 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:05.280 I mean, it's sort of anecdotal. 00:19:05.280 --> 00:19:06.960 We haven't done the research, but 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:08.320 from what we're hearing, 00:19:08.320 --> 00:19:09.760 yeah, a lot of people have seen them 00:19:09.760 --> 00:19:11.160 and wasps will eat them as well, 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:12.280 which is great. 00:19:12.280 --> 00:19:13.000 But otherwise. 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:14.120 So there is a point to wasps . 00:19:14.120 --> 00:19:14.520 Indeed. Indeed. I 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:16.640 know, I know, isn't it 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:17.640 great when you see one fly 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:18.600 and you take one of those off? 00:19:18.600 --> 00:19:20.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:19:20.280 --> 00:19:21.800 But otherwise it's really just a case 00:19:21.800 --> 00:19:22.560 of getting out there 00:19:22.560 --> 00:19:23.960 like you do with the slugs. 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:24.240 Yeah. 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:25.200 Picking them off 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:26.400 I mean they don't you know, they're not 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:27.480 they're not fast. 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:28.600 Well, maybe someone should, 00:19:28.600 --> 00:19:31.280 you know, develop a recipe that. Yeah. 00:19:31.280 --> 00:19:32.000 Because there's always plenty 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:33.360 I gladly do them and you do it. 00:19:33.360 --> 00:19:33.960 And the problem is 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:34.200 that they'll 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:35.640 have more than one generation 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:36.840 in one season. 00:19:36.840 --> 00:19:38.120 So, like, they'll start off 00:19:38.120 --> 00:19:39.160 in sort of March, April time. 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:39.880 And you see them all, 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:40.560 you know, eating away 00:19:40.560 --> 00:19:41.400 and you think right, okay. 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:43.160 Out there taking them off. 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:44.760 But then in a few months time 00:19:44.760 --> 00:19:45.120 they can have 00:19:45.120 --> 00:19:47.280 another generation of caterpillars. 00:19:47.280 --> 00:19:49.000 So it's a tricky one. 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:50.520 But there are lots of box 00:19:50.520 --> 00:19:52.800 alternative plants now. 00:19:52.800 --> 00:19:54.000 So there's a Euonymus. 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:55.680 I mean there's a few, at Wisley, 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:56.400 we've got a whole 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:59.480 garden just dedicated to box alternatives 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:00.720 because it's such a big problem. 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:02.080 So many people have had problems. 00:20:02.080 --> 00:20:02.480 Yeah. 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:04.040 So, so there are loads of, 00:20:04.040 --> 00:20:04.640 you know, clipped. 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:06.120 It’s quite a formal look. 00:20:06.120 --> 00:20:06.800 So you've got low 00:20:06.800 --> 00:20:08.240 hedges and shapes and all sorts, 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:10.080 but none of it is box. 00:20:10.080 --> 00:20:10.960 It’s Euonymus, 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:11.760 so there's okay 00:20:11.760 --> 00:20:12.560 so there's Euonymus 00:20:12.560 --> 00:20:14.040 japonicus ‘Green Spire’. 00:20:14.040 --> 00:20:14.520 Okay. 00:20:14.520 --> 00:20:17.880 That looks I think the closest to box. 00:20:18.120 --> 00:20:19.800 And you can topiary it? 00:20:19.800 --> 00:20:20.880 Yep you can clip it. 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:23.040 You've actually got some in this garden. 00:20:23.040 --> 00:20:23.760 I've just seen it. 00:20:23.760 --> 00:20:24.120 Really. 00:20:24.120 --> 00:20:25.800 You've got some in this garden okay. 00:20:25.800 --> 00:20:27.760 And it looks exactly like box. 00:20:27.760 --> 00:20:29.040 But that's I think 00:20:29.040 --> 00:20:29.560 trying to go, 00:20:29.560 --> 00:20:31.200 trying to outwit it basically. 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:32.440 So either you get out there, 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:33.480 pick the caterpillars off 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:35.040 or you just think, right okay. 00:20:35.040 --> 00:20:36.600 Clearly it's going to love box. 00:20:36.600 --> 00:20:38.200 So let's go with something else. 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:39.760 And you do the topiary yourself. 00:20:39.760 --> 00:20:40.400 So you're out there 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:41.160 doing the thing myself. 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:42.400 No I don't I don't do that. 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:45.320 I've got a little stihl thing. Yeah. 00:20:45.320 --> 00:20:47.040 They're nice. Yeah, yeah. 00:20:47.040 --> 00:20:47.760 Hedge trimmers. Yeah. 00:20:47.760 --> 00:20:48.160 They're good. 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:49.800 Yeah, yeah I think one day to do it. 00:20:49.800 --> 00:20:50.760 Yeah yeah yeah. 00:20:50.760 --> 00:20:52.440 And it's quite a satisfying job. 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:53.080 It's incrediblle. 00:20:53.080 --> 00:20:54.240 It's like getting your whole garden 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:54.760 a haircut. 00:20:54.760 --> 00:20:55.480 Yeah it is. Yeah. 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:56.160 Yeah I love that. 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:56.800 And I love the bit 00:20:56.800 --> 00:20:57.480 you've got over there 00:20:57.480 --> 00:20:59.960 where you've kind of created clouds. 00:20:59.960 --> 00:21:00.840 That creates movement. 00:21:00.840 --> 00:21:01.800 I think that looks really nice 00:21:01.800 --> 00:21:03.240 rather than just straight formal. 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:04.200 You can, you can come again. 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:05.520 Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah. 00:21:05.520 --> 00:21:06.480 Has that helped? 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:08.800 Yes it has. Good. Thank you Nick. 00:21:08.800 --> 00:21:10.200 So unfortunately it's just vigilance. 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:11.320 Yes. Okay. And when it comes too.. 00:21:11.320 --> 00:21:13.360 Nick is not going to leave my house. 00:21:13.360 --> 00:21:15.560 I’m keeping him here. 00:21:15.560 --> 00:21:16.960 Blight. Tell us about box blight. 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:18.520 So box bliight is completely different 00:21:18.520 --> 00:21:20.280 because that's a disease okay. 00:21:20.280 --> 00:21:21.320 So that means that 00:21:21.320 --> 00:21:23.840 if the conditions are right, i.e. 00:21:23.840 --> 00:21:25.200 warm and humid, 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:26.160 then there's a chance 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:27.400 you'll get box blight. 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:27.720 Okay. 00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:30.280 It's not as bad as I mean. 00:21:30.280 --> 00:21:31.320 So this area, 00:21:31.320 --> 00:21:33.080 this garden is quite enclosed. 00:21:33.080 --> 00:21:34.520 You know, you've got lots of other. 00:21:34.520 --> 00:21:37.400 So it prevents air flow coming through. 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:40.400 So if you've got warm, humid conditions, 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:41.920 you've got spores in the air, 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:43.920 they land on the leaves. 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:44.960 It's like a little petri dish 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:46.480 that's going to start to grow. 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:48.440 But if you've got the ventilation 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:49.520 drying those leaves, 00:21:49.520 --> 00:21:51.600 then box blight is less likely 00:21:51.600 --> 00:21:53.480 to actually start coming to fruition. 00:21:53.480 --> 00:21:55.560 But do you ever have box blight? 00:21:55.560 --> 00:21:57.200 Is it just the caterpillar. Yeah. 00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:57.800 So that's good. 00:21:57.800 --> 00:21:58.480 So that means that 00:21:58.480 --> 00:21:59.680 and then you've got good circulation. 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:01.280 There's plenty of ventilation. Yeah. 00:22:01.280 --> 00:22:02.440 So it's not as bad. 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:03.360 It's the caterpillar really. 00:22:03.360 --> 00:22:06.200 That's the one that gets everybody. 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:06.520 Euonymus.... 00:22:06.520 --> 00:22:07.480 Euonymus, Green Spire, 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:09.000 Yeah I find 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:11.200 I find that works very nicely. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:12.000 Yeah, yeah. 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:14.040 Nick, thank you for the very welcome. 00:22:14.040 --> 00:22:14.480 You're welcome. 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:16.640 Yes. So grateful, thank you.. 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:18.520 Shall we go and see your euonymus? Yes. 00:22:21.840 --> 00:22:22.800 I am so ready for 00:22:22.800 --> 00:22:25.800 this warmth to come into the pergola. 00:22:25.800 --> 00:22:28.080 Oh, 00:22:28.080 --> 00:22:30.160 this is such an amazing space. 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:31.440 The view, the way everything's framed. 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:32.880 And I was saying that the color. 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:34.920 There's threads of red and yellow 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:36.120 and then the green. 00:22:36.120 --> 00:22:36.880 The contrast 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:39.240 to just the such artistry to this garden. 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:39.920 Thank you. 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:41.240 You can come anytime you want. 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:42.560 Well, I would love 00:22:42.560 --> 00:22:43.840 I would love to come back again 00:22:43.840 --> 00:22:44.720 another time and be here 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:45.520 at four in the morning 00:22:45.520 --> 00:22:47.400 chatting with you and being entertained. 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:48.520 I'll deejay for you. 00:22:48.520 --> 00:22:50.040 How about we do that? 00:22:50.040 --> 00:22:51.480 This is on record. 00:22:51.480 --> 00:22:53.280 Okay? Yes, please. 00:22:53.280 --> 00:22:55.200 Fine. It's a date. Okay. Where? 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.160 Where do you get your inspiration from? 00:22:57.160 --> 00:23:00.000 Do you go to garden centres. 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:01.800 Do you go to open gardens? 00:23:01.800 --> 00:23:04.000 Kempton Antiques 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:05.680 Market in Sunbury Racecourse, 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:06.840 which just down the road from me, 00:23:06.840 --> 00:23:08.840 20 minutes away, twice a month. 00:23:08.840 --> 00:23:11.000 Ardingly. 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:12.920 Chelsea Flower 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:14.120 show every year I've been going 00:23:14.120 --> 00:23:16.120 forty years. Yeah, yeah. 00:23:16.120 --> 00:23:17.120 You think you've seen me? 00:23:17.120 --> 00:23:18.960 I've seen, you know, I hijacked you. 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:20.520 I'm so embarrassed I jumped on you. 00:23:20.520 --> 00:23:20.960 One point. 00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:21.200 I'm sorry. 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:22.440 Please, can I have a photograph? 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:23.760 You had no idea who I was. 00:23:23.760 --> 00:23:24.600 I'm sorry about that. 00:23:24.600 --> 00:23:25.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:26.600 You're harpooning for a compliment. 00:23:26.600 --> 00:23:27.480 Of course I know. 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:29.200 I followed your entire career. 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:31.800 So Hampton Court Palace, that one. 00:23:31.800 --> 00:23:32.440 Amazing. 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:33.960 And there's a new one coming this year 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:36.400 at, badminton, of course. 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:36.840 The first. 00:23:36.840 --> 00:23:38.040 First, you know, the have 00:23:38.040 --> 00:23:39.840 the horse trials there for years 00:23:39.840 --> 00:23:41.840 and their now having a flower show. 00:23:41.840 --> 00:23:43.200 And what do you know about it? 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:44.760 Do you know anything about the show 00:23:44.760 --> 00:23:45.520 that's going to be happening? 00:23:45.520 --> 00:23:46.280 I know the RHS are 00:23:46.280 --> 00:23:47.040 really keen 00:23:47.040 --> 00:23:47.520 to get out 00:23:47.520 --> 00:23:48.840 and about to have new shows 00:23:48.840 --> 00:23:49.800 in different areas, 00:23:49.800 --> 00:23:50.360 just because they want 00:23:50.360 --> 00:23:51.320 to encourage people 00:23:51.320 --> 00:23:53.280 to get into gardening, badminton, 00:23:53.280 --> 00:23:54.840 it's such an extraordinary estate. 00:23:54.840 --> 00:23:55.920 And I think that, 00:23:55.920 --> 00:23:58.640 and the gardens are incredible. 00:23:58.640 --> 00:23:59.320 And they've got, 00:23:59.320 --> 00:24:02.320 they've got around it looks like a pond 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:03.920 in front of an orangery, 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:06.000 but it's a swimming pool as well. 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:07.000 You can swim all year 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:07.920 because it’s heated. 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:09.560 So it's, it's a magical place. 00:24:09.560 --> 00:24:10.000 And they've got, 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:12.720 clouds, 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:14.160 cloud shaped box 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:16.040 plants surrounding all of it. 00:24:16.040 --> 00:24:18.280 So it's an area, you know, really well. 00:24:18.280 --> 00:24:20.040 Yeah. It's going to be special. Yeah. 00:24:20.040 --> 00:24:22.520 So you'll be there, I can't wait. Yes. 00:24:22.520 --> 00:24:24.920 And when it comes to. 00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:26.360 Say you going to Desert Island 00:24:26.360 --> 00:24:27.800 and it's just going to be you, 00:24:27.800 --> 00:24:29.880 you can take three plants with you. Yes. 00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:31.440 Whether they'll grow 00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:32.440 or not on a desert island, 00:24:32.440 --> 00:24:33.240 I really don't know. 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:34.360 But what would you take with you? 00:24:34.360 --> 00:24:35.440 What are your favorites? 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:36.920 Gardenia, of course. 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:40.800 Peony and tulips. 00:24:41.560 --> 00:24:42.240 Beautiful. 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:44.240 Any particular favorite tulips? 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:46.160 Parrot tulips. I love parrot tulips. 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:47.760 Do you have them in your garden? I do. 00:24:47.760 --> 00:24:49.160 Oh, what colors? 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:52.200 The ones that are red and orange 00:24:52.360 --> 00:24:53.080 and sometimes 00:24:53.080 --> 00:24:54.240 the red and white ones as well. 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:55.320 Oh, do you like that? 00:24:55.320 --> 00:24:56.040 I love that, 00:24:56.040 --> 00:24:56.800 I love that, yeah, 00:24:56.800 --> 00:24:58.080 I've got them in my garden as well. 00:24:58.080 --> 00:24:59.320 They're just extraordinary. Aren’tthey? 00:24:59.320 --> 00:25:00.240 They're so exotic. 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:01.440 Yeah, they're really beautiful. 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:03.120 And what about when it comes to garden 00:25:03.120 --> 00:25:04.800 tools and implements? 00:25:04.800 --> 00:25:05.760 Do you do love a tool? 00:25:05.760 --> 00:25:07.400 I've got an electric lawnmower 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:08.880 that I use, you know, with batteries. 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:09.080 Yeah. 00:25:09.080 --> 00:25:10.280 So you don't have the cord 00:25:10.280 --> 00:25:11.480 to cut through. 00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:14.640 And I've got a stihl little 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:15.760 hedge clipper 00:25:15.760 --> 00:25:17.840 that's that does all the topiary. 00:25:17.840 --> 00:25:18.720 Yeah. 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:20.640 And spades and forks. Yeah. 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:22.560 So if you can take one to your island, 00:25:22.560 --> 00:25:23.800 what would it be? 00:25:23.800 --> 00:25:27.040 Garden fork. 00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:28.920 Garden fork? Yeah. Okay. 00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:29.800 What would you take? 00:25:29.800 --> 00:25:32.160 What would I take? Secateurs, I think. 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:32.800 I don't know, 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:35.120 I quite like weeding, 00:25:35.120 --> 00:25:36.240 so maybe it would be something. 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:38.760 Do you like weeding? No. Do you not? 00:25:38.760 --> 00:25:40.720 I find it really cathartic, 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:41.520 because if you, 00:25:41.520 --> 00:25:42.600 if you were in a really bad mood 00:25:42.600 --> 00:25:43.760 or if you're stressed about something, 00:25:43.760 --> 00:25:44.160 and then you go 00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:45.400 and then you start weeding 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:46.280 at the end of the session, 00:25:46.280 --> 00:25:47.080 you feel great. 00:25:47.080 --> 00:25:49.480 You don't have that feeling no. 00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:51.280 Mow the lawn. Instead, I like doing that. 00:25:51.280 --> 00:25:52.320 Oh, I don't like doing that. 00:25:52.320 --> 00:25:53.800 You don't? No. So what do you do? 00:25:53.800 --> 00:25:54.720 Do you think that’s a 00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:56.680 male thing, I don't know, 00:25:56.680 --> 00:25:58.520 maybe it's just a human thing. 00:25:58.520 --> 00:26:00.480 Why do you like mowing the lawn? 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:01.680 Because it feels like 00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:02.520 when I've been away. 00:26:02.520 --> 00:26:04.320 Because I film on location. 00:26:04.320 --> 00:26:07.040 So, so often, I find that it's. 00:26:07.040 --> 00:26:08.520 Maybe it's like animals 00:26:08.520 --> 00:26:09.560 being territorial. 00:26:09.560 --> 00:26:10.320 When you come back 00:26:10.320 --> 00:26:11.640 and you do do the lawn, 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:13.040 you get into those stripes. 00:26:13.040 --> 00:26:13.680 It feels like 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:15.000 everything is in control again. 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:18.000 And the sense of it is your secent. 00:26:18.120 --> 00:26:19.680 Yeah. Control and scent. Yeah. 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:21.320 That's what you were all about. Yeah. 00:26:21.320 --> 00:26:22.880 Richard E Grant, thank you. 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:23.960 So much for having us around. 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:25.360 It's been such a pleasure. 00:26:25.360 --> 00:26:26.720 Such a treat you for having me. 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:27.840 I'm thoroughly inspired. 00:26:27.840 --> 00:26:29.680 We have a little thank you gift. 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:31.680 Nick, who is our RHS 00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:33.120 garden expert, has brought something 00:26:33.120 --> 00:26:33.600 for you. 00:26:33.600 --> 00:26:34.880 It's lovely out here, isn't it? 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:35.640 I mean, look at this. 00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:37.120 Outdoor roof is going to go up in flames. 00:26:37.120 --> 00:26:37.800 I am going to go. 00:26:37.800 --> 00:26:38.440 All right. So let's. 00:26:38.440 --> 00:26:38.760 It is. 00:26:38.760 --> 00:26:40.960 Yeah. That's right. Listen. Okay. 00:26:40.960 --> 00:26:42.320 We have got Rosemary. 00:26:42.320 --> 00:26:43.880 Look, I mean, 00:26:43.880 --> 00:26:45.960 isn't that the best isn't it. 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:47.440 Yeah I know, straighten them. 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:48.280 You have to just 00:26:48.280 --> 00:26:49.160 I've got some in my garden 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:51.160 every time I walk past, I have to just. 00:26:51.160 --> 00:26:52.480 Yeah. Any time of the year. 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:53.640 It's always there. And I love that. 00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:54.120 Yeah. 00:26:54.120 --> 00:26:55.920 We've got some nice little long 00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:57.600 nosed snips. Yeah. 00:26:57.600 --> 00:27:00.120 So when you're working your desk. Yeah. 00:27:00.120 --> 00:27:00.720 And you come out 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:01.760 and you snip a few little bits, 00:27:01.760 --> 00:27:02.720 put them in a little vase, 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:03.840 while your working. 00:27:03.840 --> 00:27:05.080 It's lovely. It's a nice thing. 00:27:05.080 --> 00:27:07.000 It's it feels, it's quite, 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:08.040 you know that you were saying 00:27:08.040 --> 00:27:08.640 about that sort 00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:09.760 of having a really nice tools 00:27:09.760 --> 00:27:11.520 that work really well I love these. 00:27:11.520 --> 00:27:13.520 They're really quite delicate 00:27:13.520 --> 00:27:14.640 and that's really lovely. 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:16.920 So their japanese? Yes. 00:27:16.920 --> 00:27:18.240 Yeah. They're super sharp. 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:20.400 Really, really good. Really nice. 00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:21.480 A lovely book. 00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:22.800 Gardening with scented plants. 00:27:22.800 --> 00:27:25.280 Oh thank you. There we are. Look. 00:27:25.280 --> 00:27:27.040 Yes I know, even smelling 00:27:27.040 --> 00:27:27.920 the inside of the book. 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:29.040 Is that a thing? 00:27:29.040 --> 00:27:31.200 Yes, you see. 00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:33.120 Oh, it smells so good. Smell that. 00:27:33.120 --> 00:27:34.560 And look here we go. 00:27:34.560 --> 00:27:35.800 Romantic garden. Wow. 00:27:35.800 --> 00:27:36.960 Thank you. 00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:38.880 Fantasitic book. Loads of nice ideas. 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:40.080 Little scenes that you set up, 00:27:40.080 --> 00:27:40.720 which is pretty much 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:41.760 what you've done in this garden, 00:27:41.760 --> 00:27:43.240 actually. You sniff everything. 00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:43.680 Everything? 00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:46.440 Yeah, I sniffed you the moment I met you. 00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:47.200 I'm with you on that. 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:47.400 Yeah, 00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:49.200 I will my scent today for you especially. 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:49.640 I was like, I'm 00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:51.120 just going to layer it up today. 00:27:51.120 --> 00:27:52.120 Oh, I love it. 00:27:52.120 --> 00:27:54.320 And a basket for putting all your plants. 00:27:54.320 --> 00:27:55.080 Oh my gosh. 00:27:55.080 --> 00:27:56.520 So bring it inside. Thank you. 00:27:56.520 --> 00:27:58.640 I feel like little Red Riding Hood. 00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:00.720 Thank you very much. 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:01.800 What sent you where. 00:28:01.800 --> 00:28:03.960 What's your favorite scent that you wear? 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:04.320 Yeah. 00:28:04.320 --> 00:28:07.040 It's, lime, marijuana, mandarin. 00:28:07.040 --> 00:28:07.800 But the one I've got on 00:28:07.800 --> 00:28:08.720 today is Covent Garden, 00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:11.560 which is rose ginger, carrots. 00:28:11.560 --> 00:28:12.360 And. 00:28:14.800 --> 00:28:15.480 Cedar. 00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:17.760 Can I smell it? Nice. Yeah. 00:28:17.760 --> 00:28:18.520 Oh it's lovely. 00:28:18.520 --> 00:28:19.400 Oh. Well Cedar. 00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:21.360 I can definitelty smell the cedar. 00:28:21.360 --> 00:28:22.680 Thank you. And we've got a friend. 00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:23.960 We've got a friend. 00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:24.800 Who's this? 00:28:24.800 --> 00:28:27.520 This is Neo, and it's our daughter's cat. 00:28:27.520 --> 00:28:30.480 And he's a rag doll with blue eyes. 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:31.320 We've got one. 00:28:31.320 --> 00:28:33.480 Very, very sociable and often chatty. 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:34.560 They talk a lot. Yeah. 00:28:34.560 --> 00:28:35.280 Have you found that? 00:28:35.280 --> 00:28:36.040 Yeah. Yeah. 00:28:36.040 --> 00:28:36.760 I love ours. 00:28:36.760 --> 00:28:38.640 Gorgeous. What a beautifull face. 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:40.920 Thank you. Not you, the cat.