Postbag Edition: Regent's Park, London

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When should we prune roses? What plants grow well in rubble and grass? What's infecting my Prunus avium?

Peter Gibbs and a team of horticultural experts are led on a guided tour of Regent's Park in London, while dipping into the GQT postbag to answer your gardening conundrums.

Leading the tour is head gardener and fellow GQT panellist Matthew Pottage, who's also joined by pest and disease expert Pippa Greenwood and head gardener Ashley Edwards.

Later in the programme, head gardeners Anna Rafal and Anne Tuomisto offer advice on pruning roses and designing a Mediterranean garden, as well as winter tidying with hibernating animals in mind.

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

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:07.0	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.0	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:14.0	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:26.0	I'm Alex von Tundselman.
0:27.4	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:32.7	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:37.6	Hello, I'm Cathy Clugston, and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4.
0:43.1	So grab those secateurs or sit back and relax, however you like to listen,
0:47.4	and enjoy the next 45 minutes of great tips, advice and dubious horticultural humour.
0:54.6	Hello, and welcome to another postbag edition of GQT.
0:59.1	Are you picking up the slightly distant background hum of a busy city,
1:03.6	or maybe even the faint cry of an exotic bird or animal?
1:08.0	Well, I'm in central London this week in the oasis of relative calm that is the
1:12.3	Regent's Park, home of course to London Zoo, but also home to some interesting horticulture.
1:18.2	And here to guide us through that is part of our very own GQT menagerie, panelist Matthew Potage.
1:24.8	Matt, you recently swapped the 240 acres of RHS Whizzley for a slightly larger
1:30.6	domain. Tell us about it. That's right. Yes, I've joined the Royal Parks as head of horticulture
1:36.4	and landscape strategy. And the Royal Parks covers, well, shall we go through them briefly? Let me see
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