Postbag Edition: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Gardeners' Question Time
BBC
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Where have all the worms gone in my garden? How do I use a glasshouse? Can plants survive without being watered for a month?
Kathy Clugston and a team of gardening experts explore the 70 acres of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, all while digging the GQT postbag to answer your gardening grievances.
Joining Kathy on this extensive tour are ethnobotanist James Wong, garden designer Neil Porteous, and Head of Gardens at Balmoral Kirsty Wilson. They're led around the garden by Head of Collections, David Knott.
Producer: Bethany Hocken Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Executive Producer: Carly Maile
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Nicola Cocklin. |
| 0:02.8 | Young people have been making history for years, but we don't often hear about them. |
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| 0:37.0 | Hello, I'm Cathy Clugston and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:42.5 | So grab those secateurs or sit back and relax however you like to listen |
| 0:46.9 | and enjoy the next 45 minutes of great tips, advice and dubious horticultural humour. |
| 0:54.4 | Hello and welcome to this festive edition of GQT. |
| 0:58.2 | We're in a city brimming with horticultural sparkle, Scotland's capital Edinburgh. |
| 1:03.1 | Hidden behind its Grand Georgian buildings and cobble streets are a number of special gardens, |
| 1:08.4 | lovingly tended by various trusts and green-fingered locals. |
| 1:12.6 | Two of note are the Archivist's garden that sits quietly behind the city's busy Princess Street |
| 1:17.6 | and the fragrant physic garden hidden away at the Royal College of Physicians. |
| 1:22.6 | Both designed in part by David R. Mitchell, a former curator of our venue today, the magnificent Royal Botanic |
| 1:30.1 | Gardens, Edinburgh. RBGE was established more than 350 years ago and as a collection of over 13.5,000 |
| 1:38.3 | plant species, offering locals and visitors, something we often get asked for, year-round inspiration. As winter casts |
| 1:46.7 | its chill, the gardens light up with seasonal warmth and wonder. So we are thrilled to be here |
| 1:51.7 | today answering some of the gardening questions you've been sending in by email and via social |
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