Uxbridge: Floating Gardens, mealybugs and garden envy

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Any tips on setting up and maintaining a floating garden that produces tasty produce? Do the panel suffer from garden envy? How do I get rid of the mealybug infesting my cacti?

Kathy Clugston and her team of horticultural champions are in Uxbridge, to solve the gardening grievances of the audience. On the panel this week are house plants expert Anne Swithinbank, proud plantsman Matthew Biggs, and ethnobotanist James Wong.

Later, Matthew Biggs re-visits Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, where he meets Ginny Abu Bakr and Billy Styles to discuss how they’ve introduced gardening to patients receiving chemotherapy.

Producer: Bethany Hocken Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod Executive Producer: Carly Maile

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4

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0:48.0	Hello, I'm Kathy Clugston and this is Gardner's Question Time from BBC Radio 4. So grab those secitaires or sit back and relax however you like to listen and enjoy the next 45 minutes of
0:55.4	great tips advice and dubious horticultural humour. Call, get back on the gate.
1:05.0	Yes, sir, sir, this.
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1:09.0	Understood, thank you, sir.
1:11.0	Make your way down the steps. There was 76 of them, so take your time.
1:15.0	Hello and welcome to Gardner's question time. I'm on secret manoeuvres this week.
1:21.0	Deep underground in Uxbridge in West London.
1:24.2	I have descended 76 steps and around me is a collection of rooms
1:28.7	that holds a very special place in history.
1:31.2	In the room I'm standing in right now, top secret operational decisions were made
1:36.3	concerning the brave RAF pilots keeping the Lufwaffe at bay in 1940. The rooms making up the Battle of Britain Bunker are now a museum 60 feet under.
1:47.6	Not a prime location for horticulture, you might be thinking, but in fact plants did have a close relationship with this underground bunker.
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