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🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Why are my blueberry plants experiencing blueberry dieback? How can we prevent or treat an infestation of whitefly in an eco-friendly manner? Which plant have you been most tempted to steal and why?
Peter Gibbs and a panel of plant and gardening gurus offer advice to an audience of keen gardeners in Twyford, Reading. Joining Peter are house plant expert Anne Swithinbank, garden designer Bunny Guinness, and proud plantsman Matthew Biggs.
Later in the programme, we hear from GQT's Kathy Clugston who visits a garden designed for individuals with no sense of smell.
Producer: Matt Smith Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Executive Producer: Carly Maile
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0:47.9 | Hello, I'm Cathy Clugston, and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4. |
0:52.8 | So grab those secretars or sit back and relax however you like to listen and enjoy the next 45 minutes of great tips, |
0:56.0 | advice and dubious horticultural humour. |
1:00.1 | Hello and welcome to this week's GQT with me Peter Gibbs. Now we love travelling to all corners |
1:06.0 | of the UK with this show, but I must admit this week it's quite nice to be literally just down the road. |
1:12.8 | There's a stretch along the A4 between Maidenhead and Reading, which is known locally as the |
1:17.3 | floral mile because of a remarkable concentration of nurseries, fruit farms, garden centres, |
1:23.6 | and even a vineyard. It's a legacy of a time when the neighbouring villages of Twyford and Ruscom |
1:29.2 | were famous for the large numbers of market gardens supplying fruit, veg and flowers to Reading, |
1:35.4 | Windsor and the London markets. More recently, they've done a good trade in supplying a large |
1:40.2 | number of plants to a certain GQT Chairman's Garden. |
1:47.6 | Continuing that great growing heritage are our host today, |
1:50.3 | the Twyford and Ruscombe Horticultural Association, |
1:52.9 | which was formed in 1955, |
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