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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Why have my magnolia leaves turned brown? How do I care for a tamarisk? Why is growing poppies so difficult? Kathy Clugston and the panel are in South Staffordshire offering their top gardening tips. Joining Kathy to share their best horticultural advice is plantswoman Christine Walkden, RHS Bridgewater curator, Marcus Chilton-Jones and gardener Matthew Biggs. Meanwhile James Wong visits the Carbon Garden at Kew Gardens to learn about the importance of carbon in our ecosystem, low emission gardening and carbon-resilient trees.
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0:00.0 | I'm Mariana Spring, the BBC's social media investigations correspondent. |
0:06.0 | In my podcast, I've been investigating what happened to the daughter of a conspiracy theorist who died having rejected chemotherapy. |
0:13.0 | It would mean the world to me if I could make it that she wasn't just another in the long line of people that die in this way. |
0:19.0 | How does this reflect the rise of health conspiracy theories on social media and beyond? |
0:24.8 | The new series of Mariana in Conspiracy Land, listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:31.1 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
0:36.0 | Hello and welcome to Gardner's Question Time. This week were guests of Perton Parish |
0:40.9 | Council in South Staffordshire, a patchwork borough of picturesque villages, green spaces, busy borders |
0:47.3 | and wild hedgerows. Nestled between the buzz of Wolverhampton and the quiet charm of Shropshire, |
0:53.4 | you'll find canals winding through |
0:55.1 | countryside with a rich horticultural heritage. A few episodes ago, we heard how David Austin put |
1:00.9 | this place on the map, thanks to his legacy of world-renowned roses. Much further back in the 18th century, |
1:07.8 | the English landscape gardener Capability Brown left his mark on local estates like |
1:12.5 | Weston Park, Himley Hall, Patsal Park, and a bit further to the north, Trentham Gardens. |
1:18.6 | From the walled gardens of Wolverhampton's Wittick Manor to the Bluebell Woods of Kinver Edge, |
1:23.9 | nature in this region doesn't just bloom, it properly shows off, which brings me to today's |
1:29.6 | panel. No, they're not show-offs at all, but they do have a lot of knowledge on display. |
1:37.1 | Please welcome Lancashire's own Mother Nature, Christine Walkton, RHS Bridgewater Curator and |
1:42.8 | Staffordshire Bluebell, Marcus Chilton Jones, and always capable, |
1:46.8 | it's Lester's prime plantsman, Matt Biggs, your gardener's question time panel. |
1:58.4 | Later in the programme, we'll venture to another green patch of paradise, the Royal Botanic |
2:02.7 | Gardens queue, as the London Garden unveils one of its most ambitious projects yet. |
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