Caterham
Gardeners' Question Time
BBC
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Is it too late to plant daffodil and tulip bulbs? What are the best ideas for planting under a shaded tree? How to maintain a lawn that is regularly used for football?
This week on Gardeners’ Question Time, Peter Gibbs and a hand‑picked panel of horticultural experts head to Caterham to tackle the green‑fingered queries of a live audience.
Peter is joined by Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Pottage and Anne Swithinbank.
Alongside these questions, we hear from Bethan Collerton  who visited Wrexham to find out more about the RHS 'It's Your Neighbourhood' Scheme and how it has benefited the community and the gardeners involved.
Producer: Matt Smith Assistant Producer: William Norton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. |
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| 0:22.2 | from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan. |
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| 0:30.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.5 | Hello and welcome to Garland's Question Time with me, Peter Gibbs. |
| 0:39.6 | The impressive ridge of the North Downs stretches a good hundred miles or more across southern |
| 0:44.2 | England, an imposing barrier of rolling chalk hills intersected by a number of deep valleys. |
| 0:50.2 | Some still being actively carved by water, others dry remnants left by prehistoric rivers long since vanished. |
| 0:58.4 | And it's nestled within one of those ancient dry valleys that you'll find the town of Catrum, our location for today. |
| 1:05.4 | We're here as guests of the Catrum and District Horticultural Society, which this year is celebrating an impressive |
| 1:11.3 | 140 years, and you're looking well on it. Yep, founded in 1886, the Society has been bringing |
| 1:19.6 | gardens together ever since. Through wars, weather, and changing fashions in gardening, |
| 1:24.7 | it's quietly carried on, sharing knowledge, building skills, |
| 1:29.0 | and putting on much-loved local horticultural shows. Proof, if anyone needed, that gardening is about |
| 1:35.5 | patience, community, and playing the long game. And speaking of experience and being in it for the |
| 1:41.7 | long haul, when it comes to gardening, this lot, |
| 1:44.9 | have seen it all, grown it all, and probably written the book on it too. Please welcome, |
| 1:50.3 | Anne Swinland Bank, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew Potage, your gardener's question time panel. |
| 2:10.2 | And later in the programme, is this your year to put a local community garden or green space on the map with a little help from the RHS? |
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