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Hello and welcome to the award-winning BBC Gardner's World magazine podcast, brought

to you by the team here at the magazine. Join us as we chat all things gardening with the

nation's favourite experts.

Hello, I'm Alan Titchmarsh.

Thanks for joining me in my podcast series Ask Alan.

I'll be answering your garden questions from a selection sent in by you,

the BBC Gardens World Magazine readers and podcast listeners.

In this episode, I'm joined by Kat from BBC Gardeners World magazine. I'm joined by Kat from BBC Gardeners World magazine readers and podcast listeners. In this episode, I'm joined by Kat from BBC Gardner's World magazine. And we're going to talk about pests and diseases, plant ones, not

human ones. Stay tuned for the wild card question at the end to find out if it's yours. And if it is,

a prize will be winging its way to you.

As gardeners, we do love to worry.

We want our plants to be healthy and to look good

and it can feel like such a sort of personal attack

when something you've carefully cultivated,

gets infested with something and you want it gone.

The first thing you need to do is work out what the problem is.

I would imagine you in all your years of answering questions get asked a lot. I've got this

plant and it's green and it's not looking very healthy. What's wrong with it? And you

well, I always say it's a bit like going to the doctor and describing the symptoms of your child.

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