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Questions and time codes are below.

Where applicable plant names are listed.

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Q1 – I’ve tried everything to get rid of black fly from my broad beans – is there anything I can do? (1 minute, 40 seconds)

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Q2 – What’s best to follow tomatoes in my veg patch? (5 minutes 43 seconds)

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Q3 – Do you have any advice for growing Luffa? (7 minutes 28 seconds)

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Q4 – Climbing hydrangea that was affected badly by the frost last year; it has re-budded but the buds are very tiny. Is there any hope or should we think about replacing it? And if so, any suggestions to replace it – very dry, sunny conditions. (9 minutes 34 seconds)

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Christine – Any annual climbers like

Eccremocarpus scaber (Chilean glory-vine),

Cobaea scandens (Cup and saucer vine).

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Feature (12 minutes 40 seconds)

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Q5 – I have a 50-year old weeping silver birch tree which has died. What should I do?

(20 minutes 52 seconds)

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Q6 – 30ft by 6ft (9m x 1.8m) south facing but under trees – could the panel recommend some colour shade-loving plants?

(22 minutes 40 seconds)

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Christine – Tellima,

Lamium,

Cyclamen hederifolium (for autumn) and Cyclamen coum (for spring)

Scilla

Puschkinia

Anemone

Ranunculus

Schizostylis

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Matthew Pottage – Fatsia japonica (Spider’s web)

Eucryphia - nymansay

Hosta – Hadspen blue or Empress Wu

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Matthew Wilson – Silene – Fimbriata

Deschampsia – Schottland

Japanese anemones

Persicaria amplexicaulis Alba

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Q7 – Is there anything that I can plant now (mid-July) from seed that will give me a good display around mid-September?

(27 minutes 20 seconds)

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Matthew Wilson – Tithonia

Dahlia

Amicia zygomeris

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Christine – Calendula

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Correspondence – trees

Matthew Wilson – Cherry tree ‘Sunset Boulevard’

Crataegus pedicellata

Wisteria – Black dragon

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Matthew Pottage – Cornus kousa – ‘Chinensis’

Crab apple – Malus ‘B³Ü³Ù³Ù±ð°ù²ú²¹±ô±ô’

Conifer – Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Little Spire’

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Q8 – I am on my third Embothrium ‘Chilean flame’ tree which is now losing its leaves. What can I do to keep it alive?

(34 minutes 2 seconds)

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Q9 – Who or what inspired your love of gardening and how can we encourage younger generations to garden?

(36 minutes 58 seconds)

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