University of Reading

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What suggestions do the panel have to attract new gardeners to our community allotment? Should I replace my drought damaged slow growing conifers? What evergreen hardy plants for some winter interest can I have in my tropical themed garden?

Peter Gibbs and his team of scholastic horticultural experts are at the University of Reading for this week's episode of Gardeners' Question Time.

Joining Peter answer the audience's gardening conundrums are passionate plantsman Matthew Biggs, garden designer Juliet Sargeant, and self proclaimed botany geek James Wong.

Peter Gibbs speaks with Professor Sarah Dance about Reading University’s study into meteorology and their on-going research into predicting weather forecasts weeks in advance.

Producer: Dominic Tyerman

Assistant Producer: Dulcie Whadcock

Executive Producer: Carly Maile

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:41.8	Hello and welcome to GQT. We're at Redding University this week an institution with a proud
0:48.1	horticultural history. And not least because our esteemed GQT panelist Bunny Guinness and Pippa Greenwood are alumni.
0:56.0	They graduated a while ago now, to be fair.
0:59.4	So it won't be on campus today, but we've brought an equally learned panel with us to answer your gardening questions.
1:05.0	I can't promise you'll leave here with an M-Hort, but hopefully we'll be able to provide some degree of learning for you to take away.
1:14.3	So without further ado, please welcome your master's of horticulture,
1:18.0	garden designer Juliet sergeant, ethnobotenist James Wong,
1:22.0	and plantsman Matt Biggs.
1:24.0	Right who has our first question.
1:35.0	Hello, panel. I am Hannah Moore. I'm head gardener at Dippley Mill, which is in Hampshire.
1:42.0	My question is if a complete novice was thinking of
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