GQT at Home: Episode Twenty-Eight
Kathy Clugston chairs this week's gardening show with a panel of experts.
Kathy Clugston chairs this week's gardening show. Christine Walkden, Matthew Wilson and Pippa Greenwood join her to answer the questions.
This week the team are joined once more by a live virtual audience. The team discuss how they remember what they have planted and where, suggest the best salad leaves to grow outdoors over winter, and try to rescue a listener's dying rose.
Away from the questions, Peter Gibbs visits Wakehurst, Kew’s wild botanic garden in Sussex, to meet Living Collections & Conservation Manager Iain Parkinson, and Claire Ratinon chats to Sinead Fenton about her projects at Awesome Farm.
Producer - Jemima Rathbone
Assistant Producer - Rosie Merotra
A Somethin' Else production for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 4
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Q – How do the panel remember what you have planted and where? (1 minute 15)
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Q – I grew aubergines for the first time this year. I don’t know the variety. My first fruit turned out to be a mutant monster aubergine. Can the panel explain why this happened? (3 minutes 40)
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Q – I am a lockdown gardener. I have had variable success of growing rocket over the summer and I would like to know if there are any salad leaves, I can grow outside in pots over winter? I live in North-West London and our garden is East facing with some sheltered sunny spots.Ìý (6 minutes 20)
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Pippa – Mizuna
Pak Choi
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Matthew – Carrots
Sweet peas
Scabius
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Christine – Perpetual spinach
Winter purslane
Kale
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Q – We have let the mistletoe dominate our old apple tree. The mistletoe started as a small bunch but over time it has increased so much the tree has some sorry looking branches. It has been suggested we remove as much mistletoe as possible, flush with the bark. If we did this would it return vigorously next spring? We want to keep the tree if possible. Please help. (10 minutes 30)
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Feature – Ian Parkinson and Peter Gibbs at Wakehurst, Kew’s wild botanic garden in Sussex (14 minutes)
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Q – I have a small wildlife pond in my garden. It measures about 2x1.5m (6.5x4.92ft)and it is about 60cm deep. Over the last 7-8 years the frog and toad population has been diminishing to the point where we have no frogs or toads for the past 3 years. Does the panel have any ideas to what happened and how to persuade them to come back? (18 minutes 45)
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Q – I rescued this rose from the almost dead section of the plant shop. I would like some help on how to help it.Ìý (21 minutes 10)
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Christine – Shrub Rose
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Q – I have an Apple tree in my garden which has been there for 12 years. The owners before staked it but didn’t do the best of jobs. It is now leaning quite a lot over to the neighbours’ side. Is there any way to encourage the tree to be more upright? (24 minutes 15)
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Feature - Claire Ratinon with Sinead Fenton of Awesome Farm (28 minutes)
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Calendula
Yarrow
Nigella
Cornflower
Painted sage
Snapdragons
Viola
Bellis
Primroses
Mallows
Alliums – Allium ‘moly’
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Q – I have made a terraced garden on a steep Easterly facing slope. I have planted a lot of different daffodils for spring interest. What annuals or perennials can I add to carry on the display when the daffodils are done? (33 minutes 45)
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Matthew – Luzula nivea
Brunnera – Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’
Fern
Dryopteris erythrosora ‘B°ù¾±±ô±ô¾±²¹²Ô³¦±ð’
Hosta ‘Halcyon’
Japanese anemones
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Christine – Elephant ears
Alchemilla molllis
Epimedium
Perennial geranium
Cyclamen – Cyclamen hederifolium
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Pippa – Tiarella
Pulmonaria
Herbaceous Geranium
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Q – Who would you invite to spend a day in your garden for companionship and inspiration? (37minutes 55)
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