St Mary's Walthamstow

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Kathy Clugston and an esteemed panel of gardening experts are in St Mary's Church in Walthamstow to answer the questions of a green fingered audience.

Joining Kathy on the panel are garden designers, botanists and alotmenteers James Wong, Matthew Biggs and Frances Tophill.

Later, Matthew Pottage provides a list of thriving trees that are sweeping the streets of London.

Producer: Matthew Smith Junior Producer: Rahnee Prescod

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett. For most of my career, I've been on live radio, and I love it.
0:13.3	But I've always wondered, what if we'd had more time? How much deeper does the story go?
0:19.2	I remember having this very sharp thought that what you do right now, this is it.
0:24.3	This defines your life.
0:26.0	I'm ready to talk and ready to listen.
0:28.3	I'm insulted by how little the medical community is ever bothered with this.
0:33.9	Ready to talk with me, Emma Barnard, is my new podcast.
0:37.0	Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to
0:40.4	Gardner's Question Time with me, Cathy Clugston. Today we're in Waltham Stowe Village, often named
0:46.4	one of the best places to live in London. And it's easy to see why. This corner of East London,
0:52.3	close to Epping Forest, has all the charm of a country village, cobbled
0:56.3	lanes, centuries old buildings, and shared green spaces that bring people together.
1:02.0	Waltham Stowe has a proud gardening tradition, from award-winning village in bloom projects to
1:07.6	buzzing community gardens.
1:09.3	This is a neighbourhood bursting with creativity,
1:12.1	care and green fingers. At his heart is St Mary's Churchyard, which has been officially
1:18.5	recognised as a site of local importance for nature conservation. More than 70 volunteers
1:24.0	help care for the space under head gardener Tim Hewitt through projects like
1:28.6	Burials in Bloom, where neglected graves are brightened up with new planting, and sand and gravel
1:34.2	beds that support drought-tolerant plants and ground nesting bees.
1:39.0	Well, our audience here is buzzing to put their questions to our panel of gardening pros.
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