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Is it too late to plant daffodil and tulip bulbs? What are the best ideas for planting under a shaded tree? How to maintain a lawn that is regularly used for football?

Is it too late to plant daffodil and tulip bulbs? What are the best ideas for planting under a shaded tree? How to maintain a lawn that is regularly used for football?

This week on Gardeners鈥 Question Time, Peter Gibbs and a hand鈥憄icked panel of horticultural experts head to Caterham to tackle the green鈥慺ingered queries of a live audience.

Peter is joined by Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Pottage and Anne Swithinbank.

Alongside these questions, we hear from Bethan Collerton 鈥妛ho visited Wrexham to find out more about the RHS 'It's Your Neighbourhood' Scheme and how it has benefited the community and the gardeners involved.

Producer: Matt Smith
Assistant Producer: William Norton

A Somethin' Else production for 麻豆社 Radio 4.

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42 minutes

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Sun 25 Jan 2026 14:00

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Q1- Is it too late to plant daffodil and tulip bulbs (1鈥42鈥)

Q2 鈥 As well as Wassailing,what else can I do to get a really good crop of good sized apples this year? (5鈥23鈥)

Q3 鈥 With our warming climates and buds coming early. What are the key things we should do over the next couple of months to ensure that plants like roses, hydrangeas, wisteria don't get burnt out or exhausted? (10鈥23鈥)

Q4 - An old rockery is struggling beneath a mature sycamore, within a steep, chalky front garden. What are the best ideas for reimagining and planting this challenging 4脳2 metre space? (15鈥17鈥)

Anne Swithinbank - Clematis听脳听jeuneiana

Heuchera, Choral Bells

Tiarellacordifolia, foam flower

Teucriumfruticans, tree germander

Teucriumchamaedrys听L., wall germander

Lepidium sativum, persian cress / ornamental cress

Aethionemagrandiflorum, Persian stone cress

Matthew Pottage 鈥

Asplenium scolopendrium, hart's tongue fern
Petroselinum crispum, curled parsley

Polypodium

Convallaria听majalis, lily of the valley

Dwarf woodland ferns

FEATURE: Bethan Collerton visits Wrexham to find out how the RHS 鈥業t's Your Neighbourhood鈥 Scheme benefited the community and the gardeners involved. (21鈥33鈥)

听Q5 - After 7 years, why has my Victoria plum barely grown and only produces one plum a year? (25鈥21鈥)


Prunusdomestica听'Victoria' (D), plum 'Victoria'

Q6 鈥 Should I give up on my dying pyracantha, that is essentially a twig now? (30鈥15鈥)

Pyracantha, Firethorn

Q7 鈥 My brother and I like to play football in our back garden. Our dad moves the goal around so that we don't wear away the same patch of grass. Do you have any suggestions to help our grass and my dad? (36鈥02鈥)

Matthew Pottage 鈥

Lolium perenne, perennial rye grass

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