Wrexham County Borough: Rose Cuttings, Begonias and Hydrangeas

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Is there a foolproof way to take rose cuttings? Why have my hydrangeas turned from blue to pink? And do begonias have a lifespan limit?

Kathy Clugston is in the vibrant Wrexham County Borough, where an enthusiastic audience puts their gardening dilemmas to an expert panel.

Joining Kathy are celebrated garden designer and botanist James Wong, horticulturist Bethan Collerton, and Marcus Chilton-Jones, curator of RHS Bridgewater – the sharpest tools in the GQT shed.

Later in the programme, Kirsty Wilson shares her top tips for growing holly successfully.

Senior Producer: Dan Cocker 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	My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.
0:11.1	You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.
0:14.0	Ho!
0:14.3	Ho! Ho! No, no, no.
0:17.5	I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.
0:20.4	Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really
0:22.9	Slay? It's Christmas Kitchen Disno season, surely. Give me hip-hop Christmas bangers every day. Those Christmas
0:29.1	tracks that are straight out of Lapland. Get all kinds of Christmassy. Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	Hello and welcome to this week's Gardner's Question Time with me, Cathy Clugston.
0:40.9	Today we're in Wrexham County Borough in North East Wales.
0:44.5	Nowadays, the area might be best known for a fortuitous connection to Hollywood
0:49.1	via the home football team, but it's the local lawns, not the pitchers that we're
0:53.7	interested in today.
0:55.5	The area around Wrexham has strong horticultural credentials, recognised for community gardening,
1:01.2	wildflower meadows and formal estate gardens. Nearby Erdig Hall is a National Trust property
1:07.3	that's home to one of the most significant 18th century formal gardens in Britain,
1:12.2	including a nationally important ivy collection. And the borough of Wrexham itself has won significant
1:17.9	horticultural and community green space awards, notably gold for the last two years running
1:23.3	at Wales in Bloom, which is no mean feat. We clearly have a clued up audience today.
1:29.0	Just as well, we have an extremely talented panel
1:31.3	to answer their questions.
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