Gardeners' Question Time
179 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 216 ratingsA panel of horticultural experts answer gardening questions from a live audience. Recorded in a different location each week
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Wickham Bishops, Essex
April 22, 2022 15:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBPeter Gibbs and the panel are in Wickham Bishops, Essex. Christine Walkden, Bob Flowerdew and James Wong answer the horticultural questions. This week, the team talk pruning - when is the best time and how? They also tackle the tough subject of black spot and have some tips to leave your gardens brimming with biodiversity. Beyond the questions, Dr Chris Thorogood, lead by botanist Pat Malabrigo, goes in search of the pungent rafflesia banoana plant in the high elevation rainforests of the n...
GQT at Home: Nettle Brew and Bluebell Dew
April 15, 2022 14:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBPeter Gibbs hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. Fielding questions from across the country are James Wong, Kirsty Wilson, and Matt Biggs. This week, the panel investigates the mysterious case of buried eggs in one North London garden, discusses the best conditions for growing sunflowers, and considers the benefits of cultivating moss indoors. GQT's intrepid explorer Dr Chris Thorogood travels to the Philippines in search of the popular UK house plant, ...
GQT from the Archive: 75th Celebration
April 08, 2022 15:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBKathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. This week, Kathy, Ashley Edwards, Pippa Greenwood and James Wong unite to celebrate 75 years of Gardeners' Question Time. Through the mists of time and a smoky room in Ashton-under-Lyne, the team hear a snippet from GQT's first broadcast, reflecting on changing attitudes, and looking toward exciting horticultural developments. From the archive, Eric Robson talks to veterans at the walled allotments in ...
North Solent
April 01, 2022 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBKathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme. Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Wilson, and Christine Walkden answer the questions. This week the panellists suggest some easy-to-grow Euphorbias, as well as giving hope to one gardener whose Mimosa was destroyed in recent storms. They also puzzle over a lack of Granny's Bonnets this year, and come up with planting ideas for creating a screen. Away from the questions, Matthew Wilson speaks to Exbury Gardens head gardener Tom Clarke to learn about e...
Gardeners' Question Time: Exbury Gardens
March 25, 2022 16:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBKathy Clugston is in the village of Exbury in Hampshire. She's joined by Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Wilson and Christine Walkden to answer the audience's horticultural queries. This week, the panellists discuss the best way to eliminate horsetail and green fly, pollinator-friendly plants for year-round flowers, and the use of the word 'dirt'. Stepping away from the questions, Pippa Greenwood meets Exbury Gardens' Head Gardener Tom Clarke as he shows her around the dragonfly pond. Producer: ...
GQT at Home: Euryops and Euonymus
March 18, 2022 16:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBKathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. This week's panellists are the ever-knowledgeable Chris Thorogood, Bob Flowerdew, and Bunny Guinness. On this week's programme, the panel answer the question of whether it's possible to grow your own cup of tea. Keeping it in the kitchen, they also assess whether a passionfruit plant grown from seed will ever fruit, and explain what is going on with a confused ginger plant. Away from the questions, Matt...
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Postbag Edition
March 04, 2022 16:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBKathy Clugston is at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew with panellists Ashley Edwards, Matt Biggs and Anne Swithinbank. In a wistful turn about the gardens, some of the panellists remember the time they spent training at Kew, all the while sharing their advice on keeping plants alive when you go away on holiday, pruning plum and hawthorn trees, and planting for fragrant raised beds. Between the questions, the team visits Kew Gardens' Temperate House, learning all about the fascinating history ...
GQT at Home: Unseasonal Flowers and Leaves with Power
March 04, 2022 16:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBHorticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. Kathy Clugston is joined by Kirsty Wilson, Matthew Pottage, and Anne Swithinbank. Together, they answer your gardening queries. As the climate warms, more and more plants are flowering unseasonably early or else staying in flower for much longer. This week the panel tackles all sorts of untimely blooms, from a climbing rose to a woody rosemary plant. To investigate the issue further, Peter Gibbs speaks to University of Cambrid...
GQT at Home: Biodiversity Starters and Tips from The Archers
February 25, 2022 16:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBHorticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. Peter Gibbs is in the chair, with Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood, and Matt Biggs answering questions from a virtual audience across the country. This week, the panellists get excited about the growing seasons ahead, discussing their top tips for cultivating healthy coriander and gooseberry plants, when to cut back a buddleia to maximise its butterfly potential for the summer, and what "to chit your potatoes" means. Also, Clai...
Beth Chatto's Plants and Gardens: Postbag Edition
February 18, 2022 16:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBPeter Gibbs is at Beth Chatto's Plants and Gardens answering your horticultural queries with Christine Walkden, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson. This week, the team meet garden and nursery director David Ward and head gardener Åsa Gregers-Warg, who show them around Beth Chatto's gravel, water, and woodland garden, all the while sharing their advice on cultivating a moss lawn, growing an acorn from seed, and helping a plant through it's dormancy period. In the run up to spring, Kate Clark ...
GQT at Home: Romantic Blooms and Pineapple Brooms
February 11, 2022 16:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBPeter Gibbs hosts the gardening Q&A with Pippa Greenwood, Chris Beardshaw and Matt Biggs answering questions sent in by listeners. Love is in the air this week as our panellists share some romantic-sounding plant names. They also discuss the best course of action for an infestation of honey fungus, and give advice on creating a community garden. Away from the questions, Pippa Greenwood speaks to the Horniman Museum’s Head of Horticulture, Errol Fernandes, about their plans to plant a micro ...
GQT at Home: Floating Gardens and Grow Light Guidance
February 04, 2022 16:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBHorticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts, chaired by Kathy Clugston. Fielding questions from across the country, this week, are Juliet Sargeant, James Wong, and Pippa Greenwood. As the snowdrops begin to emerge from the soil, our panellists sit down to share their advice on using grow lights, nurturing bonsai trees, and battling an infestation of gnats. Away from the questions, Matt Biggs sets sail to meet one gardener who has chosen to create a garden on top of her c...
GQT at Home: Trees with Knees
January 28, 2022 16:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBGardening programme featuring a group of green-fingered experts, chaired by Kathy Clugston. Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness, and Bob Flowerdew dispense the horticultural counsel. This week, the panellists tell us what to look for when purchasing a new pair of secateurs. They also talk through how best to use your garden compost, and share planting ideas for a protective hedge around a listener's coastal allotment. We resume our great trees of GQT features with Anne Swithinbank, who this wee...
GQT at Home: Sowing Roots and Hanging Fruit
January 21, 2022 16:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBPeter Gibbs hosts the horticultural programme featuring the ever-knowledgable Kirsty Wilson, Matt Biggs, and Anne Swithinbank fielding questions from listeners across the country. This week, the panellists share their ideas on nature-based solutions to flooding, bestow tips on splitting dahlia tubers and offer some inspiration for growing in hanging baskets and containers, with sustainability in-mind. Beyond the questions, Claire Ratinon visits the Sowing Roots: Caribbean Garden Heritage in...
GQT at Home: Horticultural Healing and January Dreaming
January 14, 2022 16:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBKathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. This week's panellists are the ever-knowledgeable Matt Biggs, Humaira Ikram, and James Wong. Firmly embedded in the new year, the panellists share some motivating thoughts to get you back out into the cold with your secateurs in-hand, tips on looking after a young avacado tree, and design ideas for a high-rise garden. Beyond the questions, Ashley Edwards, Head Gardener at Horatio’s Garden, London, chat...
GQT From The Archives: Sustainability Special
January 07, 2022 16:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBPeter Gibbs takes a look through the GQT archives for top tips on sustainable gardening. Over the years the GQT panellists have shared plenty of knowledge on how to be a green gardener. They look at everything from how to make your driveway more environmentally friendly, to efficiently collecting rainwater at home. We also hear Hafsah Haferji's "how-to" on companion planting, and head back to RHS Wisley with Matthew Pottage and Environmental Researcher Tijana Blanusa to learn how trees hel...
GQT at Home: New Year's Trees
December 31, 2021 15:45 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBKathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. Matthew Pottage, Christine Walkden and Bob Flowerdew answer the queries ahead of the new year. This week, our panellists share their gardening resolutions for 2022, and suggest some ideas for a fast growing, thrifty hedge that can withstand bad weather. Away from the questions, Matt Biggs gives us his ultimate guide to planting trees in winter, and James Wong tells us about a magical tree found both in...
GQT at Home: A Partridge in a Pear Tree
December 25, 2021 08:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBAccompanying you this Christmas, Kathy Clugston hosts the gardening panel show. Bob Flowerdew, Christine Walkden, and Matthew Pottage are on hand to answer the gardening queries. Alongside the usual mulch of gardening goodies - a how-to on home-growing parsnips and skirret, a plant that tastes like an oyster, and the curious appearance of a partridge in a pear tree - Kathy brings humour in the form of the now-traditional GQT cracker jokes. Providing us with some trimmings foraged from the g...
Herstmonceux Castle: Postbag Edition
December 17, 2021 16:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBPeter Gibbs and the team are at Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex. Juliet Sargeant, Matt Biggs and Matthew Pottage are this weeks' panellists, ready to answer your gardening questions. Led by Herstmonceux's head gardener Guy Lucas, the team explores the castle grounds and learns about the sustainable gardening practices adopted in recent years. The panellists also tackle questions from listeners, including suggestions for what to plant around a thatched cottage, and when to prune plants tha...
GQT at Home: Orchid Hunting and Clay Soil Planting
December 10, 2021 16:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBKathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts, including Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw, and Christine Walkden, who are on hand to answer the gardening queries of a virtual audience. This week, the panellists offer up their advice on managing mistletoe, adding lime to soil, and planting for those ever-so British wet conditions. Beyond the questions, Anne Swithinbank chats to Mike Waller and Sean Cole about hunting for orchids in the wild and Juli...
GQT at Home: Festive Floral Ideas and Overwintering Wisterias
December 03, 2021 16:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBKathy Clugston hosts this week's gardening panel show. Horticultural experts Christine Walkden, Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw answer questions sent in by listeners from across the country. This week, the panellists divulge their best tips for encouraging your plants to fruit and flower, and also look into a listener's query about the mysterious plant growing from a tree trunk in her garden - could it be an orchid? Need some tips for your festive floral designs? Florist Hazel Gardiner...
GQT at Home: Rooftop Trees and Frilly Leaves
November 26, 2021 17:54 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBKathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. This week's panellists are the ever-knowledgeable Chris Thorogood, Pippa Greenwood, and Bunny Guinness. The team marks the beginning of National Tree Week by sharing some potted tree ideas for a rooftop terrace, as well as offering advice for a student science project. Meanwhile, Bob Flowerdew has some top tips for looking after fruiting plants over winter, and we head up to Edinburgh as Kirsty Wilson t...
Becontree Estate: Postbag Edition
November 19, 2021 16:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBPeter Gibbs and the panel are at Becontree Estate answering your gardening questions. Joining him this week are regular panellists Matt Biggs, Christine Walkden and Matthew Wilson. To celebrate Becontree's 100th birthday, community gardener Carole Wright shows Peter and the panel what the local community have grown on this otherwise urban estate. As they explore the estate, the panel answer questions from listeners, including how to grow a healthier Photinia and how best to cut back an unru...
GQT from the Archives: Winter Special
November 12, 2021 16:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBKathy Clugston has a look through the GQT archive for this special winter edition of the show. You'll hear from many of our regular panellists, plus a few friendly voices you may recognise from GQT shows of yore... Pull on your wooly socks and pick up your gardening tools, in true GQT style, we're reminding ourselves of the many jobs at hand through the winter season, including growing pollinators for those late-flying bees, making best use of your water butt, and planting for those spectacu...
GQT at Home: Sustainable Plots and Salad Pots
November 05, 2021 16:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBKathy Clugston hosts the gardening Q&A, with Anne Swithinbank, Matt Biggs and Chris Beardshaw answering questions sent in by listeners. This week, the panellists share some insect friendly planting ideas and explain how to keep the squirrels away from newly planted spring bulbs. And as we all strive towards a greener planet, they discuss the best carbon-capturing tree planting practices. Meanwhile, with COP26 well underway, Peter Gibbs investigates sustainable gardening around the UK. He sp...
GQT at Home: Water Forget-me-nots and Crumbly Compost
October 29, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBHorticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts, chaired by Kathy Clugston. A virtual audience of listeners from across the country puts questions to James Wong, Pippa Greenwood and Christine Walkden. The team gives its top tips on protecting your plants through winter, creating a pond with a whiskey barrel, and how best to use your household waste water. Throughout the COP26 summit, we'll be turning our gardening tools to the health of the planet. This week, Peter Gibbs take...
GQT at Home: Apple Celebrations and Ancient Specimens
October 22, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBKathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. This week's panellists are Pippa Greenwood, Christine Walkden and James Wong, answering questions from a virtual audience. Our green-fingered experts kick off the show with a seasonally appropriate discussion around those crunchy delights - apples! They also offer one listener some colourful design ideas for her shared space and reflect on the special gardening tools they've inherited from significant fi...
GQT at Home: Salvias and Soap Nuts
October 15, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBPeter Gibbs and his panel of experts answer your gardening questions. Joining him this week are Matthew Wilson, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank. This week, the panel are tasked with suggesting some herbaceous plants for a beautiful early June display. They discover one listener's natural alternative to laundry detergent, soap nuts, and share some other soap-alternative plants for the garden. Away from the panel, we explore the world of Amelanchiers with Christine Walkden, and Claire Rat...
GQT at Home: Cuddly Conifers and Creamy Miscanthus
October 08, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBKathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. Matt Biggs, Bunny Guinness and James Wong are on hand to answer the gardening queries. This week our panellists share what unexpected wonders their gardens are displaying this Autumn season, whilst handing out a plethora of tips on pruning, training, and seeing your plants through the Winter. Meanwhile, we join Juliet Sargeant as she shares the joys of watching Autumn set in and travel to East Sussex t...
GQT at Home: Autumn Trees and Miner Bees
October 01, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBHorticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts, chaired by Kathy Clugston. Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank, and Pippa Greenwood are on hand to answer the questions. This week, the panellists delight in all manner of bugs and bees in listeners' gardens, and encourage everyone to work harmoniously with these wonderful creatures. Meanwhile, Matt Biggs heads to Waterperry Gardens in Oxfordshire, founded by a champion for women in gardening, Beatrix Havergal. He speaks with the ...
RHS Chelsea Flower Show
September 24, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBKathy Clugston and the panel are at this year's Chelsea Flower Show answering your gardening questions. Joining Kathy are regular panellists Pippa Greenwood, Matt Biggs and Chris Thorogood. For the first time at Chelsea, we see container and small balcony showgardens, proving that you don't need a garden to be a gardener. Kathy and the team chat with designers Sara Edwards and James Smith about their sustainable and inventive creations. Meanwhile, Peter Gibbs steps out of the chair to be ...
GQT at Home: Creeping Thyme and Chimney Pot Design
September 17, 2021 15:00 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBPeter Gibbs hosts the horticultural programme with Pippa Greenwood, Matt Biggs and Christine Walkden. This week, the panellists get imaginative with planting ideas for a chimney pot garden feature. They also take on an unruly Jasmine, and suggest some fence climbing plants that will help attract wildlife. As autumn is approaching, Ashley Edwards explains how to bring in houseplants that were taken outside over the summer. Meanwhile, Matthew Wilson helps demystify all things plant food. Pr...
GQT at Home: Drying Flowers and Acer Bowers
September 10, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBHorticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts, hosted by Peter Gibbs. Joining him this week are Anne Swithinbank, Matthew Wilson, Christine Walkden and a virtual audience from across the country. Romance is in the air as the panel discusses wedding bouquet flowers, and one listener's life long love affair with lavender. There may be a few confessions along the way, as the panellists reveal the new plant temptations in their life. Away from the questions, Hazel Gardiner lead...
GQT at Home: Cannas and Cordylines
September 03, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBPeter Gibbs hosts this week's horticultural panel show. His experts, on hand to answer listeners questions, queries and quandaries, are Matthew Wilson, Anne Swithinbank and Christine Walkden. They are joined by a virtual audience from across the country. This week, the panellists explain how to move a Lupin when moving house, and share their top tips for cheering up a rather sad looking Cordyline. They also give some low maintenance, but suitably fragrant, planting ideas for a listener's cot...
GQT at Home: Seeds, Sets and Protecting Butterfly Eggs
August 27, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBHorticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts chaired by Kathy Clugston. Matthew Pottage, Pippa Greenwood and Matt Biggs answer questions sent in from listeners from across the country. This week, the panellists discuss how plants know when it is raining (no-one mention Wyndham). They also tackle the controversial subject of what to do with overgrowing ivy and divulge their greatest gardening regrets. Beyond the questions, Bob Flowerdew has some super saving tips, and Cherr...
GQT at Home: Parakeet Trees and Dinner Plate Leaves
August 20, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBKathy Clugston hosts this week's gardening Q&A. Anne Swithinbank, Christine Walkden and Bob Flowerdew answer questions sent in by listeners. This week, the panellists get inventive with solutions to a parakeet problem... rubber snake, anyone? They also share some great plant ideas for a Scottish sunroom, and look back on the best retro houseplants. Away from the panel, Matthew and Jane Wilson share the progress of their cut flower garden, and Advolly Richmond tells us the history of Alstroe...
GQT at Home: Allotment Plots and Happy Hollyhocks
August 13, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBKathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme with Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and James Wong. This week, the panellists field questions from the audience on common gardening phrases from the 1950s, slow flowering plants, and the fiddly job of nurturing a bottle garden. Away from the questions, Peter Gibbs takes a trip to RHS Wisley's extensive Pelargonium collection and Kirsty Wilson waxes lyrical about her favourite tree, the Ginkgo biloba. Producer - Hannah Newton Assistant Prod...
GQT at Home: Hugel Beds and Horseshoes
August 06, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBKathy Clugston hosts this week's gardening Q&A with a panel of experts. Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and Chris Beardshaw join Kathy to answer the questions sent in by green-fingered listeners. This week our panellists explain what a Hugelkultur bed is, and what you can grow in it. They share their garden memories and suggest some planting ideas for one listener's unique outdoor sculpture. We also join Dr Chris Thorogood as he learns about the history of botanical photography from exhibit...
GQT at Home: Crocheted Mushrooms and Vegetables for Schoolrooms
July 30, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBKathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. This week, a virtual audience of listeners from across the country puts questions to Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Bunny Guinness. Our panellists share their vegetable-growing nightmares, and suggest some fun planting ideas that young children can enjoy too. They also advise on the best trees and plants to recreate your own woodland in the garden. Matthew Pottage tells us about his favourite chi...
Horatio's Garden, London & South East: Postbag Edition
July 23, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBPeter Gibbs is at Horatio's Garden, London and South East, with Christine Walkden, Matt Biggs and Bunny Guinness, as regular feature presenter and Head Gardener, Ashley Edwards takes them round the garden. Together, they answer questions on adventurous Clematis, leafy Blackcurrant bushes and bendy Birch trees. Producer - Dan Cocker Assistant Producer - Jemima Rathbone A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
GQT at Home: Hostas and Heucheras
July 16, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBKathy Clugston and her panel of experts answer gardening questions. Joining her this week are Matthew Pottage, Christine Walkden and Anne Swithinbank. The panellists discuss a mystery pest targeting lily pads and share design ideas for shady areas of the garden. Away from the questions, Matt Biggs visits Tottenham Hotspur's Kitchen Garden, and Pippa Greenwood shares her favourite tree. Producer - Hannah Newton Assistant Producer - Bethany Hocken A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
GQT at Home: Alliums, Geraniums, and Cardiocrinum giganteum
July 09, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBPeter Gibbs hosts this week's horticultural panel show. Joining him from their homes to answer gardening questions are Humaira Ikram, James Wong and Matt Biggs. This week, the panellists discuss leggy Alliums, give tips for a Sunflower competition, and reveal their gardening sins. Away from the questions, Pippa Greenwood talks about the Big Butterfly Count and Kirsty Wilson tells us about the Himalayan Lily. For more information about the Big Butterfly Count visit: bigbutterflycount.butterf...
RHS Bridgewater: Postbag Edition
June 18, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBPeter Gibbs and the panel are at the newly opened RHS Bridgewater answering your gardening questions. Joining him this week are regular panellists Matthew Wilson, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew Pottage, along with Curator Marcus Chilton-Jones and Sylvia Travers, Team Leader of the Inner Walled Garden. Together, they answer your questions on pruning plum trees, unhappy rhododendrons and strange additions to the compost heap. Producer - Daniel Cocker Assistant Producer - Jemima Rathbone A Some...
GQT at Home: Insipid Leeks and Pest Control Techniques
June 11, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBKathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. Chris Beardshaw, Christine Walkden and Anne Swithinbank are on hand to answer questions from the virtual audience. This week, the panel tackles questions on a curiously dried out hot border, stubborn peony bushes and thinning out seedlings. Away from the questions, regular GQT panellist Matt Biggs kicks off our feature series by giving a fervent tribute to his favourite tree, the Handkerchief tree. P...
GQT at Home: Fish Tank Flowers and Gardening After Hours
June 04, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBPeter Gibbs hosts the show with a group of gardening experts. Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Pottage answer questions from the virtual audience. This week, the panellists tackle questions ranging from when you can first harvest your asparagus to what to plant in an old fish tank. They also solve the mystery of a funny-looking fungus, offer advice on regenerating a lawn which has been driven over, and share their favourite nighttime gardening activities. Away from the questions, w...
GQT at Home: Fertilised Vines and Garden Crimes
May 28, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBKathy Clugston hosts the gardening Q&A with a panel of experts. Joining Kathy and the virtual audience this week are Christine Walkden, Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw to discuss your questions on caring for Pilea plants, growing Hollyhocks and starting a gravel garden. Away from the questions, the panel delves into the controversial topic of peat and, to celebrate the inaugural National Hedgerow Week, James Wong meets with Sara Lom of the Tree Council to discuss all things hedgerow. ...
GQT at Home: Tasty Tomatoes and Anarchic Aloes
May 21, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBPeter Gibbs hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts - Bob Flowerdew, Matthew Pottage and Bunny Guinness - and a virtual audience of green-fingered listeners. This week, our panel answers your questions on temperamental wisteria, planting around a Wendy house, and what you can plant to encourage pollination in your garden. Away from the questions, Pippa Greenwood visits Rosy Hardy of Hardys Cottage Garden Plants to take a trip down Chelsea memory lane. Pr...
Oxford Botanic Garden: Postbag Edition
May 14, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBPeter Gibbs and the team are at the Oxford Botanic Garden answering questions from the GQT postbag. Matt Biggs, Pippa Greenwood, Dr Chris Thorogood and Head Gardener Mark Brent answer your questions on growing apricots, ruined potash, and why bees love the colour purple. Producer - Dan Cocker Assistant Producer - Millie Chu A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
GQT at Home: No Mow May and Dahlia Decay
May 07, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBKathy Clugston hosts the gardening Q&A with a panel of experts. Houseplant queen Anne Swithinbank, plantsman Matt Biggs and award-winning garden designer Chris Beardshaw answer the questions sent in by listeners on grasses gardens, planting orchards and recovering parterre gardens. Away from the questions, we get an update on Matthew and Jane Wilson's cut flower garden, and Juliet Sargeant sets the GQT listenership a challenge - No Mow May. Producer - Daniel Cocker Assistant Producer - Mi...
GQT at Home: Trampled Plots and Forget-me-nots
April 30, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBKathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. This week, she's joined by Matt Biggs, Chris Beardshaw and Anne Swithinbank to answer questions sent in by green-fingered listeners on compost, wildlife ponds and the eternal battle between hoeing and weeding. Away from the questions, Dr Chris Thorogood of the Oxford Botanic Garden tells you what to do in the event of unexpected frost, and garden designer Jacquie Felix Mitchell goes on a walk by the Riv...