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Hello, I'm Cathy Clugston, and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4.

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. Hello and a warm welcome to

Gardner's Question Time. You find us today in the London Borough of Hillingdon. In nearby

rice-lipped woods, the winged seeds of the field maple will be spinning like whirligigs through the crisp air

as the leaves fall to the soil below, turning from yellow to burnt orange to delicate skeletons as they sink their nutrients into the soil ready for the frosts.

The soil itself has an ancient story that paints a picture of a very different rice-lip.

The discovery of a layer of black clay in 2018 has led scientists to believe that 56 million

years ago, the landlocked town may have been a wooded marshland sitting on a coastline.

The earth would have been very soggy, the climate subtropical, and the vistas positively oceanic.

Rice-lip-on-sea has a nice ring to it, isn't it?

Well, whatever the soil type, moisture levels or climatic conditions, our expert panelists have the solution to any plant-based problem.

Please welcome your GQT panel, ethnobotanist James Wong, self-described plant madman,

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