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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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Q1- 鈥� Is it too late to plant daffodil and tulip bulbs (1鈥�42鈥�)
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Q2 鈥� As well as Wassailing,鈥�what else can I do to get a really good crop of good sized apples this year? (5鈥�23鈥�)
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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�)
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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�)
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Anne Swithinbank - Clematis听脳听jeuneiana
Heuchera, Choral Bells
Tiarella听cordifolia, foam flower
Teucrium听fruticans, tree germander
Teucrium听chamaedrys听L., wall germander
听Lepidium sativum, persian cress / ornamental cress
Aethionema听grandiflorum, Persian stone cress
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Matthew Pottage 鈥�
Asplenium
scolopendrium, hart's tongue fern
Petroselinum crispum, curled parsley
Polypodium
Convallaria听majalis, lily of the valley
Dwarf woodland ferns
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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�)
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听Q5 - 听After 7 years, why has my Victoria plum barely grown and only produces one plum a year? (25鈥�21鈥�)
Prunus听domestica听'Victoria' (D), plum 'Victoria'
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Q6 鈥� 鈥� Should I give up on my dying pyracantha, that is essentially a twig now? (30鈥�15鈥�)
Pyracantha, Firethorn
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Q7 鈥� 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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