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How to treat your tree ferns, caring for Christmas Cactus and orange Poinsettia?

Winter gardening inspiration with David Maxwell including; how to treat your tree ferns, caring for Christmas Cactus and orange Poinsettia?

With a wintry feel in the air, David Maxwell is joined in studio by experts Anna Hudson and Reg Maxwell to offer some gardening inspiration for colder days. The team will be taking questions on among other things the challenges of Christmas Cactus, and why one listener鈥檚 winter display of cyclamen is wilting. Also on the programme, David heads to a Jurassic world in County Kerry where Australian tree ferns have naturalised. At the Greenmount campus of the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise they are growing pink, white and orange Poinsettias alongside the traditional red ones. Anna has been harvesting some perennial veg you might not of heard of which David will be sampling on air. Contact the programme on gardenerscorner@bbc.co.uk

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56 minutes

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  • Sat 2 Dec 2023 09:03

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