GQT at Home: Orchid Hunting and Clay Soil Planting
Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts.
Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts, including Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw, and Christine Walkden, who are on hand to answer the gardening queries of a virtual audience.
This week, the panellists offer up their advice on managing mistletoe, adding lime to soil, and planting for those ever-so British wet conditions.
Beyond the questions, Anne Swithinbank chats to Mike Waller and Sean Cole about hunting for orchids in the wild and Juliet Sargeant joins us from Brighton to tell the tale of her two favourite elm trees.
Producer - Daniel Cocker
Assistant Producer - Bethany Hocken
A Somethin' Else production for 麻豆社 Radio 4
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Questions and timecodes are below. Where applicable, plant names have been provided.
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Q 鈥� Will my amaryllis plant flower before Christmas?
(1 minutes 57 seconds)听
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Q 鈥� How should we manage mistletoe?
(4 minutes 50 seconds)听
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Q 鈥� I have an allotment. How and when do I add lime to my soil?
(7 minutes 39 seconds)
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Q 鈥� I have a one-hundred-year-old aspidistra. How do I care for it? Is it past it鈥檚 sell-by date?
(10 minutes 3 second)
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Chris 鈥�
鈥楥ast-iron plant鈥�
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Feature 鈥� Mike Waller and Sean Cole share their knowledge on searching for orchids in the British countryside
(15 minutes 4 seconds)
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Orchids:
Phalaenopsis
Bee
Green-winged
Burnt
Lizard
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Q 鈥� My garden has a clay-based soil. What plants don鈥檛 like cold wet conditions?
(19 minutes 30 seconds)
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Chris 鈥�
Dryopteris atrata
Matteuccia struthiopteris, Shuttlecock fern
Deschampsia
Hosta, 鈥楧evon green鈥�
Iris sibirica
Iris 'Gerald Darby'
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Anne 鈥�
Salix gracilistyla, 鈥楳ount Aso鈥�
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Q 鈥� Most of our indoor plants have withered in our garden room. We are trying to deal with a small fly - could this be the culprit?
(24 minutes 34 seconds)
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Anne 鈥�
Hedychium gardnerianum, 鈥楪inger lily鈥�
Strelitzia, Bird of paradise
Bougainvillea
Plumbago
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Feature 鈥� Juliet Sargeant鈥檚 tale of her two favourite elm trees in Preston Park, Brighton
(30 minutes 34 seconds)
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Q 鈥� I have a small south-facing back garden. It is divided into four large beds that are jam-packed with trees, shrubs, hardy perennials, and annual flowers. How often should I feed it, and with what?
(31 minutes 56 seconds)
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Q 鈥� What present would the panel recommend for the gardener that has everything?
(36 minutes 29 seconds)听
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Gardeners' Question Time
Horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts