GQT At Home: Episode Twelve
Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel show.
Peter Gibbs chairs the virtual, horticultural panel show with Pippa Greenwood, Matt Biggs and Chris Beardshaw dialling in from home.
Among the questioners this week is Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall, who appears on the programme for the first time to ask for the panel鈥檚 advice and insights on a historic variety of lavender.
As part of our GQT lockdown masterclasses, Anne Swithinbank presents a June Prune 101 and Matthew Wilson talks to botanical tattooist Rebecca Vincent about where to start with botanical illustration.
Producer - Laurence Bassett
Assistant Producer - Rosie Merotra
A Somethin' Else production for 大象传媒 Radio 4
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Questions and timecodes are below. Where applicable, plant names have been provided.
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Q 鈥� We鈥檙e postponing our summer fetes to October. What plants can I grow from cuttings that will be at their best at that time of year?
(1 minute 13 seconds)
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Chris 鈥� Dahlia
Stipa
Cosmos
Grapes
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Pippa 鈥� Genovese basil
Streptocarpus
African violets
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Q 鈥� Can you identify the problem with my sprouting broccoli which are pale with grey speckles on some leaves? I have had slug problems before.
(4 minutes 50 seconds)
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Q 鈥� I鈥檝e been growing two Bay trees for a few years which have reached around 170cm (67 inches) before the first leaf shoots, which I want to train into a ball. How do I get the trunk of the tree to thicken? It鈥檚 currently as thick as a bamboo shoot.
(8 minutes 16 seconds)
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Q 鈥� Please could the panel give me some ideas for colour in the garden between after the spring bulbs have gone and before the summer plants bloom.
(11 minutes 35 seconds)
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Matt 鈥� Clematis
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Pippa 鈥� Dicentra spectabilis
Iris
Forget-me-not
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Feature 鈥� Botanical Tattoos with Matthew Wilson
(16 minutes 45 seconds)
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Rebecca - Dog-rose
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Q 鈥� I moved my Golden Oats Grass (Stipa Gigantea) into a different position in the garden recently. It is now looking poorly with its leaves scorched and yellow. Should I not have moved it? What should I do next?
(21 minutes 7 seconds)
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Chris 鈥� Echinacea
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Q 鈥� I have three fruit trees planted against a sunny south-west facing fence. I have noticed some ant activity near my peach tree. I can鈥檛 see any signs of aphids but there are little nodules on the leaves and leaf stems. The leaves are also sticky. Should I be worried?
(25 minutes 13 seconds)
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Feature 鈥� Pruning in June with Anne Swithinbank
(27 minutes 29 seconds)
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Philidelphus mock orange
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Kolkwitzia Amabilis 鈥楤eauty bush鈥�
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Evergreens
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Osyris Lanceolata
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Pittosporum
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Rosemary
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Viburnum Farreri
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Q 鈥� My chives are acting strangely and the heads are falling off, about an inch down from the base of the flower. I鈥檝e had the original plant for over 30 years which has been split many times and this has never happened before.
(31 minutes 50 seconds)
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Sycamore tree
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Q - from the Duchess of Cornwall 鈥� What variety of lavender would Dee Lavender have been and is it possible to find it?
(35 minutes 18 seconds)
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Matt - Munstead Lavender
Lavender angustifolia 'Torramhor'听(lost variety)
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- Fri 19 Jun 2020 15:00大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 21 Jun 2020 14:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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