Dundee: Amaryllis, Monkey Puzzles and Australian Plants

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What is the best way to take cuttings of a monkey puzzle tree? What plants that are grown in Australia and would thrive in Dundee? Why hasn’t my Amaryllis flowered?

Kathy Clugston brings together a perfectly curated panel of gardening experts at the V&A Dundee to tackle these questions from an enthusiastic, plant-loving audience.

Joining Kathy on the panel are garden designers, botanists and allotmenteers Matthew Pottage, Kirsty Wilson and Neil Porteous.

Also, Matthew Pottage slips away for an exclusive look at the V&A Dundee’s fascinating exhibition Garden Futures: Designing With Nature, guided by curator James Wylie.

Senior Producer: Dan Cocker Junior Producer: Rahnee Prescod

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.0	My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.
0:11.1	You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.
0:14.0	Ho!
0:14.3	Ho! Ho! No, no, no.
0:17.5	I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.
0:20.4	Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay? It's Christmas kitchen disco season, surely.
0:26.4	Give me hip-hip Christmas bangers every day. Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland.
0:30.9	Get all kinds of Christmassy. Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:35.7	Hello and welcome to this week's Gardner's Question Time with me,
0:39.0	Cathy Clugston. Today were the guests of V&A Dundee, the stunning design museum that opened on the
0:45.0	waterfront in 2018 as part of a huge regeneration project in this area, stretching five miles
0:51.3	along the edge of the River Tay. The building itself is inspired by local geography,
0:55.9	representing the jagged cliffs of Scotland's East Coast
0:58.7	and the city's maritime legacy.
1:01.6	Inside, the museum is currently focusing
1:03.6	on how nature can stimulate creativity
1:06.0	in our home gardens,
1:08.1	or anywhere.
1:09.1	We'll hear more about that later in the program.
1:11.7	Just next door to the museum is Dundee Waterfront Gardens,
1:15.1	full of interesting plants, fun water features, and a landmark sculpture.
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