Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival: Anaerobic Digestion, Apple Maggots and Pyramid Orchids

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Snowdrops - do you mulch, feed, or leave them alone? What's the difference between anaerobic digestion and aerobic digestion? How do I get rid of apple maggots?

Peter Gibbs and the GQT team of experts return to Shepton Mallet to solve various gardening conundrums. On the panel this week are house plant guru Anne Swithinbank, pest and disease expert Pippa Greenwood, and garden designer Matthew Wilson.

Later in the programme, Anne Swithinbank and Dominic Weston discuss all things snowdrops ahead of Shepton Mallet's upcoming snowdrop festival.

Producer: Daniel Cocker Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod  Executive Producer: Carly Maile

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	Eleven climbers appeared to have died on the world's second highest mountain K2.
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0:10.0	Rock falls, avalanches.
0:11.0	Huge pieces of ice. All are big enough to kill you.
0:14.0	He just flew out into Devoid and he was gone.
0:17.0	How did it all go so wrong?
0:19.0	And is it really worth risking death to feel alive?
0:22.3	Why would somebody pay to go to a place called the death cell on a vacation?
0:27.4	Extreme.
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0:29.3	With me, Natalia Melman Petrazella.
0:31.8	Listen to the full series now.
0:33.4	First on BBC Sounds.
0:36.1	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:40.9	Hello, I'm Cathy Clugston, and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4.
0:46.4	So grab those secateurs or sit back and relax, however you like to listen, and enjoy the next 45 minutes of great tips, advice and dubious horticultural humour.
0:57.6	Hello and welcome to Gardner's question time with me, Peter Gibbs. It's the ultimate symbol of winter planting and one of the country's most recognisable perennials.
1:08.4	To some, it's a fairly ordinary low-growing bulb, but to others, it's one of the
1:13.1	crown jewels of British flora, provoking an obsession. I am, of course, talking about Galanthus,
1:20.1	otherwise known as the Snowdrop. And what better way to celebrate the Snowdrop than to visit
1:25.5	the Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival.
1:28.3	Come to Shepton Mallet this week and you'll see snowdrop-inspired events everywhere
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