Postbag Edition: Blenheim Palace - Mites, Bees and Powdery Mildew

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What can I use to stop mites from destroying my nine foot Schefflera? Why haven't we seen many bees this year? How do I remove fungus growing on my hawthorn tree?

Peter Gibbs and his team of gardening gurus travel to Blenheim Palace in Woodstock for a postbag edition of GQT.

While Head Gardener Andy Mills leads Peter and the panel around the historic grounds, they also rake through the GQT inbox to answer your gardening queries. On the panel this week are garden designer Chris Beardshaw, house plants expert Anne Swithinbank and pest and disease expert Pippa Greenwood.

Later in the programme, the panellists receive a surprise question from English fashion and textile designer Dame Zandra Rhodes, who asks what she should do about her dying hydrangeas.

Senior Producer: Dan Cocker Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod  Executive Producer: Carly Maile

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:45.0	Hello and welcome to Ghana's question time with me Peter Gibbs.
0:49.0	This program last visited Spectacular Blenham Palace in Woodstock, Oxford in 2019.
0:55.0	And during that time we took questions from visitors to BBC's Country File Live event.
1:00.0	We were so impressed with the horticultural treasures on offer that we vowed to one day return to explore more of the grounds and so here we are five years later.
1:09.0	Well if you never experienced Blunheimm up close, it's sort of more country pile than country file.
1:15.8	One of the largest private homes in the country and a UNESCO World Heritage site,
1:20.9	the house is perhaps best known for once being the residence of Winston Churchill,
1:25.6	who was born in the palace exactly 150 years ago this coming November.
1:30.9	The striking palace architecture is one thing, but the parkland and gardens are pretty special too.
1:37.0	A 12,000 acres, scale is the first thing that springs to mind, quickly followed by grand ambition and a determination
1:46.2	to not rest on one's laurels.
1:48.4	The gardens have experienced plenty of change over the years, but one horticultural aspect you can't escape is the
1:54.0	influence of Lawrence Capability Brown who had a hand in Blenham's landscape in the
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