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Hello, I'm Kathy 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 welcome to GQT. We're at the National Trust's

Mottestone Gardens this week on the south coast of the Isle of White

for a post bag edition of the program as we dive into the GQT

mailbox to help solve your gardening problems.

The manor at Motestown, nestled in a sheltered valley, is listed in the doomsday book,

but in fact the gardens in their current form are only a sprightly 60 years old having been planted in the 1960s.

We're standing in front of the beautiful Elizabethan Manor House.

To one side there's a beautiful cottage type garden with some formal hedging and on the other herbaceous borders with exotic plants

Tons of color still even this late in the season and we'll find out more as we go through the program.

Here to give us a tour today is senior gardener Ed Hinch. Welcome Ed.

Hello nice to meet you. Thank you for having us today. How long have you been here at the

gardens? I've been here for 26 and a half years now so I've enjoyed every

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