Pulham Market
Gardeners' Question Time
BBC
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Peter Gibbs and Gardeners’ Question Time panel visit visit Pulham Market.
Peter is joined by Bob Flowerdew, Christine Walkden and Bunny Guinness to answer questions on growing fruit in pots and choosing shrubs for deep shade, and discuss which farmyard manure is best to use on the allotment.
Along the way, the panellists explore the challenges of quince blight, champion strawberries grown in buckets, and share suggestions for gardening activities that are accessible and engaging for people with limited mobility.
Also, James Wong visits Kew Gardens to witness the spectacular (and pungent!) flowering of the Titan Arum, one of the rarest and most extraordinary plants in cultivation.
There are also practical tips for sowing carrots successfully and advice on whether a well‑travelled oleander can finally be planted out.
Producer: Matt Smith Assistant Producer: William Norton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:26.2 | The Martin Lewis podcast, listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.1 | Hello and welcome to Gardner's Question Time. |
| 0:33.2 | Today we're in the South Norfolk village of Pullham Market. |
| 0:37.4 | The name itself hints at its past with market added in the 13th century |
| 0:42.1 | when the village was granted the right to hold a weekly market. |
| 0:46.5 | Now while the stalls may have faded, that sense of community gathering very much remains. |
| 0:52.2 | And nowhere is that more evident than in the Pullam Market Horticultural Society, |
| 0:56.8 | which was founded in 1923, and last year marked a very special milestone, their 100th annual show. |
| 1:06.5 | They've only missed twice, once in 1944, when members had rather more pressing matters to attend to, |
| 1:13.6 | and once during the pandemic. |
| 1:15.7 | 100 years of dahlias and ruler-straight runner-beams, the quietly fierce business of the amateur showbench. |
| 1:23.0 | And if that isn't worth a party, I don't know what is. |
| 1:26.1 | This is a society that's always understood what |
| 1:28.8 | gardening's really for, not just the growing, but the gathering together. The talks, the visits, |
| 1:34.8 | the barbecues and the friendships. They're well connected to. Their partners at the Norfolk |
| 1:40.4 | Norwich Horticultural Society count his majesty King, King Charles the third, as their patron, |
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