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Peter Gibbs leads Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw in a horticultural discussion: How to 'dangle the carrot' keeping the wireworm from your potatoes; how sulphur can keep mildew off a grapevine and how to make a decent ericaceous compost. In addition, Bob Flowerdew uncovers the medicinal properties of common garden plants. And Dawn Isaacs visits a new RSPB garden to discuss how to create a bird-friendly garden. Questions answered in the programme: 1. When a rose grows seven leaves instead of five does that means it has gone wild? 2. My Hamburg grapevine growing in a south-facing glasshouse has become malformed and shows signs of mildew. How can I treat it? 3. Can you suggest hardy, tropical-looking plants for my garden? 4. Suggestions included: Fatshedera Lizei, Phyllostachya bamboo and Clerodendron bungei. 5. How can I prune my eucalyptus to encourage new shoots? 6. How can I keep the wireworms away from my potatoes? 7. Can you suggest blue-flowering plant (max. height 1.5m) to be grown in clay soil? 8. Suggestions included: Ceratostigma willmottianum, Canterbury Bells (Pritchard's variety). 9. What is the best way to make ericaceous compost? Produced by Lucy Dichmont A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.