4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Kathy Clugston presents a special potting shed edition of the programme, with GQT's panel of experts taking questions from visitors at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
The panel answer questions on everything from how to maintain a bonsai tree to the best way to encourage a tomato plant to flower.
Later in the programme James Wong re-visits The Glasshouse Project’s show garden where he speaks to commercial director Katie Whittingham and volunteer Reba about using horticultural therapy to help rehabilitate former prisoners.
Producer: Dominic Tyerman
Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod
Executive Producer: Carly Maile
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0:45.0 | Hello, I'm Kathy Clugston and this is Gardner's question time from BBC Radio 4. |
0:50.0 | So grab those secateurs, or sit back and relax however you like to listen and enjoy the next 45 minutes of great tips, advice and dubious horticultural humour. |
1:01.0 | Hello and welcome to Gardner's question time, your weekly gardening companion. |
1:07.0 | Today we are reliving the glitz and glamour of last month's Chelsea Flower Show, bursting as ever with creative designs, show-stopping displays, and |
1:16.1 | award-winning plants like Prunice Starlight, a flowering cherry with an unusual star-shaped white flower, which won |
1:24.4 | rHS plant of the year, although I actually fancy getting my hands on the |
1:28.9 | third-placed plant, Agavee praying hands, with a wonderful sculptural curved leaves tipped with rusty red. |
1:37.0 | Well, the GQT team was on hand once again this year to provide helpful tips and inspiration, this time from our stand in the Grand |
1:45.3 | Pavilion, right in the heart of the action and buzzing with visitors in search of ideas to take home to |
1:50.8 | their own patches. To help them, we held a series of potting shed sessions throughout the week with a team of |
1:57.6 | all-star panelists and today we'll be hearing words of wisdom from Bunny Guinness, Bob Flardew and James Wong. |
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