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🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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What would the panel plant in a garden for reflection? Are there any alternatives to perlite and vermiculite? Is the weather to blame for my shamefully small brassicas and tiny potatoes?
Kathy Clugston and a team of experts are in Rosewell, Midlothian, to solve the gardening questions of the audience. Joining Kathy are ethnobotanist James Wong, garden designer Neil Porteous and Head of Gardens at Balmoral Kirsty Wilson.
Later in the programme, James Wong meets researchers Dr Hannah Atkins and Sadie Barber to discuss the extensive process of naming plants.
Producer: Bethany Hocken Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Executive Producer: Carly Maile
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0:47.2 | Hello, I'm Cathy Clugston, and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4. |
0:52.1 | So grab those secateurs or sit back and relax, however you like to listen, |
0:57.9 | and enjoy the next 45 minutes of great tips advice and dubious horticultural humour hello and a warm Scottish welcome to gardener's question time we're in the former mining village of |
1:04.1 | rosewell in midlothian the county borders edinburgh to the south and is home to the largest centre for |
1:10.4 | animal related research in the world, the Roslyn Institute. |
1:13.6 | One particular discovery in 1996 made the Institute world famous. A memorable Time magazine cover stated, |
1:20.6 | Will there ever be another you heralding the arrival of what became the most famous sheep in the world, Dolly, |
1:28.7 | the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell. She was named, of course, |
1:33.3 | after the country singer, Miss Parton, who famously sang, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, |
1:38.8 | I'm begging of you, please, don't take my lambswool, I can mulch with that. |
1:46.7 | Sitting in front of me here in St. Matthews Parish Church Hall in Rosewell is a flock of passionate gardeners and making sure they don't have the |
1:51.8 | wool pulled over their eyes, but rather over their frosty December soils. Please welcome. |
1:56.7 | Head of Gardens at Balmoral, Kirsty Wilson, ethnobotanist James Wong and plantsman, Neil Porteus. |
2:02.6 | Always raising the bar. It's your gardener's question time panel. |
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