Postbag Edition: Rutland Flower Show

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Our pear tree, which was once thriving has died, what should I do with it? Are weeds plants with attitude or is it the other way round? What are your thoughts on using a wound sealer after pruning?

Join Gardeners’ Question Time for a floral-filled adventure at the Rutland Flower Show. This week, Peter Gibbs and a panel of passionate horticulturalists soak up the sights, scents and seasonal inspiration while digging into the famous GQT postbag, to solve your trickiest gardening conundrums.

Joining Peter under the big top are proud plantswoman Christine Walkden, and top garden designers Matthew Wilson and Adam Frost - ready with expert advice, clever solutions, and a few laughs along the way.

Senior Producer: Dan Cocker Junior Producer: Rahnee Prescod

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:39.2	Hello and welcome to Gardner's Question Time with me, Peter Gibbs.
0:43.4	Now, for the last two weeks, GQT listeners will have heard the programme broadcasting from our summer garden party,
0:49.1	the horticultural highlight in Radio 4's calendar.
0:52.2	But this year, there's a new kid on the Garden Festival block, based at Rutland Showground
0:56.9	in Oakham.
0:58.1	It's the inaugural Rutland Flower Show, and GQT has come to have a look.
1:03.5	This smallest of counties is a horticultural hotbed, home to familiar gardening royalty names.
1:10.5	Just down the road is Barnsdale Gardens run by Nick Hamilton,
1:14.2	being desired and built, of course, by his dad, Jeff Hamilton,
1:17.1	a familiar face on Gardner's World in the 1980s and 90s.
1:21.4	And in fact, today we're recording the program on what would have been Jeff's 89th birthday.
1:26.9	Our own Matthew Wilson is based near here too,
1:29.3	as is another regular panelist, Bunny Guinness.
1:32.4	Gardener's world presenter Adam Frost also calls Rutland his home.
1:35.5	So with such a gardening pedigree,
1:37.6	it made sense to host an event in the area.
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