Earlsdon
Gardeners' Question Time
BBC
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
What’s the best way to grow swedes? Why doesn’t my hydrangea come to flower? Are artificial plants acceptable or downright outrageous?
This week, the GQT panellists are in Earlsdon to answer these questions and more in front of a live audience. Ready to share their insightful advice on all your plant predicaments are plant pathologist Pippa Greenwood, grow-your-own guru Bob Flowerdew, and conversant horticulturist Anne Swithinbank.
Alongside the questions, regular panellist Matthew Wilson visits GQT Producer, Dan Cocker to dig up all there is to know about weeds.
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| 0:54.5 | tips advice and dubious horticultural humour. |
| 0:59.8 | Hello and welcome to Welles, a suburb of Coventry about a mile from the city centre. |
| 1:05.7 | Today were guests of Earl's gardening club, a long established horticultural society |
| 1:11.1 | that proudly boasts a keen membership of green-fingered enthusiasts who compete at regular |
| 1:16.6 | flower and produce shows, sometimes with headline-making results. |
| 1:21.6 | In fact, according to the news pages of the Earls and Gardening Club's website, |
| 1:26.0 | last year's Flower Show featured one winner who celebrated their victory by, |
| 1:30.8 | and sensitive listeners might wish to cover their ears. |
| 1:34.0 | Fist pumping. |
| 1:36.0 | Steady on folks. |
| 1:39.0 | Now as well as being home to Erleston Gardening Club, |
| 1:42.0 | this corner of commentary is also famous as being home to Erleston Gardening Club, this corner of Coventry is also famous |
| 1:44.4 | as being the birthplace of Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine. |
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