North Shropshire
Gardeners' Question Time
BBC
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
What should I plant on the roof of my houseboat? Should I grow lilies in containers or flowerbeds? What is the worst gardening idea you’ve ever had?
The GQT panellists are back in North Shropshire to answer these questions and more in front of a live audience. Ready to share their insightful advice on all your plant predicaments are landscape architect Bunny Guinness, horticulturist Christine Walkden, and garden designer Matthew Wilson.
Alongside the questions, GQT Assistant Producer Rahnee Prescod chats to London Terrariums founder Emma Sibley about the history and creation of these pocket-sized jar-dens.
Producer: Bethany Hocken Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Executive Producer: Hannah Newton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
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| 1:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Gardner's question time. |
| 1:02.4 | This week we've popped the GQTT. Hello and welcome to Gardner's question time. |
| 1:03.0 | This week we've popped the GQT team into a wheel barrel and rolled them to the Petey Plains of North Shropshire. |
| 1:09.5 | We're in part of the area known as the March's Mosses, an area so large it can be seen from space. |
| 1:16.0 | The defining feature, as you can guess from the name, is Moss, which acts like a natural sponge |
| 1:21.0 | containing up to 90% water. As the most decays it creates new |
| 1:25.5 | peat and stores carbon. We call this a peat bog and it forms one of the rarest |
| 1:30.2 | habitats on earth. Nowadays the March's mosses are more terrestrial in nature |
| 1:35.2 | but enormous efforts have been made over the past few years to restore vast areas of |
| 1:39.4 | the peatland making it the ideal habitat for a unique set of flora and fauna to thrive. |
| 1:45.0 | Here to help me wade through the quagmire of questions about all sorts of plants |
| 1:49.0 | from our audience here in Shropshire, |
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