Hull: Venus fly traps, overgrown roses and controversial cucumbers

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Any tips on how to keep a Venus fly trap alive? How do I successfully grow a cucumber? What unusual fruit or vegetable do the panel think is underrated?

Kathy Clugston and a panel of horticultural experts are in the hot seat, as they answer the gardening queries from an audience in Hull. On the panel are head gardener Matthew Pottage, garden designer Bunny Guinness and curator of RHS Bridgewater Marcus Chilton-Jones.

Later, Hull-born panellist Matthew Pottage meets with Cllr Henry from Hull City Council, to learn more about their ‘Right to Grow’ initiative which allows people to grow on public land for the first time.

Producer: Dominic Tyerman Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Executive Producer: Carly Maile

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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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 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 GQT.
1:04.0	This week we're on the Humber Riviera, ready to help an audience of keen gardeners in Hull in East Yorkshire,
1:10.0	with everything from simple planting ideas to anguished cries for help.
1:15.0	Hull is the birthplace of the mathematician John Ven,
1:18.0	creator of the Ven diagram,
1:20.0	so I've been drawing one for GQT during the news.
1:23.0	If you take horticultural expertise, star quality and earthy humour,
1:27.6	right in the middle where they overlap is our panel.
1:30.7	They are award-winning garden designer Bunny Guinness,
1:33.7	curator of RHS Bridgewater, Marcus Chilton Jones,
1:37.2	and head of horticulture and landscape strategy
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