Cotswolds
Peter Gibbs and the GQT team are in the Cotswolds to answer your horticultural queries.
How do you grow a decent sized cauliflower? Why should I tolerate slugs in my garden? What plants are the panel obsessed with?
The GQT team are in the Cotswolds to share all of their green-fingered tips with an enthusiastic audience. Raring to get rid of all our horticultural woes are garden designers Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson, and plant pathologist Pippa Greenwood.
Alongside the panel’s horticultural advice, Dr Chris Thorogood is in the Philippines to meet Anna Lee who tells him about all the ways her team are protecting the local plant life.
Producer: Dom Tyerman
Assistant Producer: Dulcie Whadcock
Executive Producer: Hannah Newton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
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Plant List
Plant List
Questions and timecodes are below. Where applicable, plant names have been provided.
Q – How do you grow decent sized Cauliflower?
(1 minutes 30 seconds)
Q – What can I do to save my lawn?
(4 minutes 50 seconds)
Matthew –
Camassia
Species Tulips
Tulipasprengeri
Erythronium mesochoreumQ – What should I do with my overgrown 10 meter high trees?
(8 minutes 54 seconds)
Feature – Chris Thorogood learns about plant poaching.
(13 minutes 20 seconds)
Q – How do you correctly dispose of weeds?
(19 minutes 34 seconds)
Q – Why should I tolerate slugs?
(23 minutes 16 seconds)
Q – Have you ever encountered alkaline tolerate rhododendrons?
(29 minutes 02 seconds)
Bunny –
inkarho hybriden
Q – What bright colours should I add to my shady border?
(33 minutes 31 seconds)
Matthew –
Brunneramacrophylla 'Jack Frost
luzula nivea
silene fimbriata
Pippa –
Hosta
Hellebores
Native Blue Bells
herbaceous geranium
Q – What plants are the panel obsessed with?
(38 minutes 04 seconds)
Pippa –
Daffodils
Snowdrops
Bunny –
Italian Parsley
Broadcasts
- Fri 23 Jun 202315:00BBC Radio 4 FM
- Sun 25 Jun 202314:00BBC Radio 4 FM
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