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🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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How can I control alexander plants? How can I encourage my gage trees to flower? What tips do the panellists have for increasing biodiversity?
Kathy Clugston and her team of green-fingered experts are by the Suffolk Coast to share their advice with an audience of garden enthusiasts.
On the panel are head gardeners Ashley Edwards and Matthew Pottage, and pest and disease expert Pippa Greenwood.
Meanwhile, Matthew Pottage explores the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. He dons his hard hat to get up close with a particularly dangerous local pine and admires the wollemi pine, a living fossil thought to be extinct for two million years until a small population was discovered in the Blue Mountains of Australia in 1994.
Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Senior Producer: Dominic Tyerman Executive Producer: Carly Maile
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0:00.0 | Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy. |
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0:44.0 | Hello, I'm Kathy Clugston and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4. |
0:50.0 | 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. |
1:01.2 | Hello and welcome to GQT. We're on the Suffolk Coast this week, a 50 mile stretch taking |
1:07.3 | in heritage coastline, sandy beaches, tiny fishing villages and areas of outstanding natural beauty. |
1:14.2 | A wander through the grassy dunes here reveals sea kale, yellow-horned poppies, sea buckthorn, thrift and sea holly. |
1:22.1 | Our exact location is the picturesque town of Southwold, |
1:25.2 | which was listed in the doomsday book in 1086 as a fishing port. That once booming |
1:31.2 | industry has been in decline since the mid 20th century, |
1:34.4 | but the seagulls are still very much a feature as you may be able to hear. |
1:38.4 | We have cast our net wide and scooped up some of Suffolk's keenest gardeners, angling for some answers to their problems, |
1:45.6 | and ready to troll through them are pest and disease expert, Pippa Greenwood, |
1:49.9 | head of horticulture and landscape strategy at the Royal Parks, |
1:53.5 | Matthew Potage, and from Horatio's Garden London, |
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