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

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Q – I remember my Dad saying to Mum, in regards to an Uncle’s tomatoes: ‘he must have flooded them too soon’. Have any of the panel any clue what he meant?

(3 minute 4 seconds)

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Q – My tomatoes seem to be taking an age to ripen from green to red. What might be delaying them?

(5 minutes 15 seconds)

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Q – I would like to make an ideal bottomless pot to plant mint in the ground. What should it look like?

(8 minutes 45 seconds)

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Q – I’ve recently fitted some decking in our back garden. As it’s a viewing spot, what tall plants can I grow to view from our seating area? The garden is full sun and clay, and I’d prefer to grow from seed.

(10 minutes 42 seconds)

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James –

Echinacea

Rudbeckia

Stipa tenuissima

Briza maxima, Greater quaking grass

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Bob –

‘Fig Leaf Hollyhock’

Foxglove

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Anne –

Vernoniae

Verbena

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Feature – Peter Gibbs visits the national collection of Pelargoniums at RHS Wisley

(14 minutes 12 seconds)

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‘S³Ù±ð±ô±ô²¹°ù’

‘Mini stellar’

Dwarf zonale

Zonartic

Australe

Gibbosum

Graveolens

Hirtum

Abrotanifolium

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Bob –

‘Paul Crampel’

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Q – What plants can be grown to encourage slugs?

(21 minutes 12 seconds)

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Anne –

Hosta

Lettuce

Lupin

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Q – My Jasmine hasn’t produced more than one or two flowers in five years. Should I be feeding it, or am I being impatient?

(23 minutes 47 seconds)

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James –

Cape jasmine

Star jasmine

Trachelospermum

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Q – My chard has bolted for a second year. What am I doing wrong, and what can I do next year?

(26 minutes 44 seconds)

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Feature – Kirsty Wilson waxes lyrical about her favourite tree, the Ginkgo biloba

(30 minutes 0 seconds)

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Maidenhair fern, Adiantum

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Q – I’ve taken over an old bottle garden. The garden needs restoration. Can the panel suggest plants that might do well in here?

(33 minutes 6 seconds)

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James –

Leucobryum glaucum, ‘Bun Moss’

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Anne –

Cryptanthus, Earth star

Dracena surculosa, Gold Dust

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Q – Do the panel have any plants that they have a love hate relationship with?

(37 minutes 1 seconds)

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Bob –

Aubergine

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James –

Mahonia

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Anne –