Peter Gibbs and a panel of horticultural experts head to Bath.
Do you really need to wait until the freezing depths of winter before pruning a climbing rose? How do you start a compost heap? And what exactly is Fuchsia gall mite?
Garden designers Chris Bearshaw, Juliet Sargeant, and RHS Wisley curator Matthew Pottage are ready to answer questions from a live audience in Bath. On his way to the hall, Peter Gibbs takes a stroll with historian Professor Marion Harney through Bath's historic Pleasure Gardens - gardens which often feature in Jane Austen's writing.
Also on the programme, Ashley Edwards heads to Gladstone Park in North London to speak to garden designer Antonia Couling and artist Harun Morrison about their landscape garden feature The Anchor, The Drum, The Ship.
Producer - Bethany Hocken
Assistant Producer - Aniya Das
Executive Producer - Louisa Field
A Somethin' Else production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
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Questions and timecodes are below. Where applicable, plant names have been provided.
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Q – What are the advantages of pruning climbing roses in the depths of winter?Ìý Is it just a job creation scheme by Head Gardeners?
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Q – My fuchsia bush grows well at the beginning of summer but sadly by flowering time the ends of the shoots and the flowers are all deformed. Help please!
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Q – What to plant in a shady, cold at night, end of a long narrow, steep down-hill, typical Bath garden with a high Bath-stone wall on one side, and the Campden Springs running underneath down to the bottom.Ìý Am I reduced to ferns?Ìý
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Chris - Ìý
Asarum
Dryopteris wallichiana
Polystichum setiferum
Wild garlic
Narcissus pseudonarcissus, Wild daffodil
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Matthew -
Fatsia polycarpa ‘Needham's form’
Fatsia polycarpa ‘Green Fingers’
Fatsia polycarpa 'Spider's Web'
Eucryphia
Ribes laurifolium
Blechnum Chilense
Crinodendron
Embothrium
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Juliet –
Hakonechloa
MelicaÌý
Muehlenbeckia complexa
Galium odoratum
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Feature – Ashley Edwards heads to Gladstone Park in North London to speak to artist Harun Morrison and garden designer Antonia Couling about their landscape garden feature, The Anchor, The Drum, The Ship.
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Melianthus major
Verbena bonariensis
White Thyme
Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna'
Salvia africana-lutea
Gazania, African Daisy
Sedum Hylotelephium 'Chocolate Cherry'
Festuca glauca
Gaura
Perovskia
Geum ‘Totally Tangerine’
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Q – We’ve decided to start again with our allotment compost heaps, but there’s so much conflicting advice on what to do. What are your views?
(25 minutes 35 seconds)
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Q – In my garden last week there were many summer flowering perennials in full bloom such as tree poppy and summer flowering Clematis. If repeat flowering is the new normal, do I need to do anything differently for these plants over the winter?
(31 minutes 25 seconds)
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Q – I have two Monstera deliciosa which live on the top floor landing of our house. When aerial roots appeared I let them grow down the staircase. They’re now about 18 feet or 5.5 metres long. I’m fascinated to see how long they will grow in the house. When they reach the bottom of the house should I prune them, or put a pot of compost at the bottom for them?
(34 minutes 53 seconds)
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Matt –
Monstera deliciosa ‘V²¹°ù¾±±ð²µ²¹³Ù²¹â€™
Monstera deliciosa ‘Thai Constellation’
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Q – Is there a place in the modern garden for a garden gnome?
(38 minutes 5 seconds)
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