Postbag: RHS Urban Gardening Show

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What's the difference between anvil secateurs and bypass secateurs? What should I do with well-used compost? If you could design a gardening utopia, what would you include?

Peter Gibbs and his team of horticultural experts have packed up the wellies and travelled to Manchester for the RHS Urban Gardening Show. While exploring the exhibitions, they dig through the GQT inbox to answer your gardening queries. On the panel this week are self-proclaimed botanical geek James Wong, house plants expert Anne Swithinbank, and Curator of RHS Bridgewater Marcus Chilton Jones.

The GQT team are also joined by 'unusual houseplant' specialist Jacob James, 'Cloud Gardener' Jason Williams and landscape designer Conal McGuire, who provide some insightful knowledge on how we can create greener and more eco-friendly spaces in urban environments.

Senior Producer: Bethany Hocken Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod  Executive Producer: Carly Maile

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0:38.0	An excited hello from all of us here at Gardner's question time. We've packed
0:46.4	our trails and wellies and headed off on a city break. We're in Manchester at
0:50.4	the RHS Urban Garden Show, a celebration of the ingenuity, spirit and collective energy of those growing in urban environments.
0:59.5	Now we're in a calm oasis here in the grand indoor forest within Manchester's Mayfield
1:04.7	Depot, but elsewhere around the venue awaiting towers of terrariums, mushrooms
1:09.5	growing in buckets, and I've heard news at our feet will be robots scurrying about the
1:15.3	soil analyzing its health. There is inspiration a plenty. So do join us
1:20.6	listeners as we explore this cross section of the latest and best in urban
1:25.2	gardening from the wonderful world of houseplants, balconies on a budget and how to get
1:30.4	creative with those often shady spaces deep in the urban canyons.
1:35.2	We're looking forward to experiencing this brand new show and ready to answer your questions
1:39.5	from the Geekati inbox, Houseplank Queen and Switherbank,
1:43.0	Esnobotonist and indoor gardener James Wong,
1:45.9	and City Dweller and RHS Bridgewater curator
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