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Questions and timecodes are below. Where applicable, plant names have been provided.

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Q – I’ve got some strawberry rhubarb growing in the garden. Last year it produced one good crop and then very little after that. Can you tell me what I’ve done wrong and how can I sort it out?

(1 minute 47 seconds)

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Q – In the last couple of years, the flowers on our hydrangeas started going brown before the others had even opened. What are we doing wrong?

(4 minutes 51 seconds)

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Q – What do plants do at night?

(7 minutes 22 seconds)

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Matt –

Araujia sericifera (cruel plant)

Epiphyllum oxypetalum

Zaluzianskya ovata

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Q – Each winter the lawn in my back garden resembles a ploughed field due to the excessive number of worm casts. I don’t want to harm them but would like to find a solution. Ìý

(11 minutes 29 seconds)

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Feature – Matthew Wilson and his wife, Jane, on how to secure blooming success

(14 minutes, 46 seconds)

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Ranunculus

Calendula

Lupin

Hollyhock

Sweetpeas

Alstroemeria

Dahlia

Chrysanthemum

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Q – I have a mixed border that’s looking very bitty. What could the panel suggest I plant to give some cohesion?

(19 minutes, 1 second)

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Matthew –

EupatoriumÌýcapillifolium 'Elegant Feather'

Panicum ‘N´Ç°ù³Ù³ó·É¾±²Ô»å’

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Pippa –

Alium

Verbena bonariensis

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Matt –

Bay

Roses

Clematis

Wisteria

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Q – What does the panel make of the current trend to pad out a bouquet of flowers with small cabbages?

(24 minutes, 13 seconds)

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Feature – Peter Gibbs speaks to Janet and Jo from Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst about collecting, storing and sowing seeds

(28 minutes, 39 seconds)

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Q – How can I cut back a very old and enormous Garrya elliptica which has taken over my front garden?

(32 minutes, 56 seconds)

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Matt –

‘James Roof’

Dryopteris erythrosora

Hart's-tongue fern

Cyclamen hederifolium

Euphorbia robbiae

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Matthew –

Osmanthus

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Q – Could you suggest shrubs and perennials that look good in or after rain? I already have Alchemilla mollis and a small group of Acers.

(36 minutes, 36 seconds)

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Pippa –

Hosta

Stachys lanata (³¢²¹³¾²ú’s-±ð²¹°ù)

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Matt –

Snowdrops

Dark Betula

Rhododendrons

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Matthew –

Cotinus (smoke bush) ‘Royal Purple’

Cotinus (smoke bush) ‘Candyfloss’

Hosta ‘Empress Wu’

Hosta ‘Empress Wu’

Hosta sieboldiana var. elegans

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