Ridgewell

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

How do I keep my gladioli coming back? Why are my hellebores covered in black spots? Why do my courgettes go mouldy so quickly?

Kathy Clugston and a panel of plant and gardening experts are offering advice to an audience of keen gardeners in Ridgewell, Essex. Joining Kathy are grow-your-own guru Bob Flowerdew, garden designer Bunny Guinness, and gardener Matthew Pottage.

Later in the programme, we hear from Peter Gibbs about the increasing number of sponge cities in the UK.

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0:48.7	Hello, I'm Cathy Clugston and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4.
0:53.6	So grab those secateurs or sit back and relax however you like to listen and enjoy the next 45 minutes of
0:55.9	great tips advice and dubious horticultural humour hello and welcome to this week's
1:02.7	gqt we're in the village of ridgewell tucked into northwest essex a stone's throw from the suffolk border
1:09.4	it's a small picture perfect place there's a village the Suffolk border. It's a small, picture-perfect place. There's a
1:12.6	village green at the heart of the community, with a pub, a couple of shops and a primary school.
1:17.5	And next door to the school is St Lawrence's Church, where you find us today. We're guests
1:22.7	of Ridgewell Garden Society, a small but perfectly formed group with 70 enthusiastic members, many of whom are
1:29.3	experienced gardeners and allotmenteers. Bob Flaherjew came to do a talk here in 1997 on the topic of
1:36.2	no work gardening. That doesn't sound like you, Bob, at all. Well, it's a bit of a lie. It's a come on,
1:42.1	isn't it? There's no such thing as no work, but there's no such thing as hard work gardening. That is true. Well, we will see if Bob's wise words back then have paid off for the gardeners of Ridgwell. Joining Bob on the panel today are two gardeners who certainly don't mind a bit of hard work. From Stanford, it's designer Bunny Guinness. And fresh from the Royal Parks in London,
2:02.5	it's Matthew Potting. Please welcome Bob, Bunny and Matthew, your gardener's question time panel.
2:11.6	Later in the program, Peter Gibbs visits RHS Garden Wisley to soak up information about the
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