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Questions and timecodes are below. Where applicable, plant names have been provided.

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Q – What did you plant in your garden early in your career that you regret, and what arrived opportunely?

(1 minute 47 seconds)

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Anne –

Bare-root gooseberry

Potentilla reptans (Creeping cinquefoil)

Verbascum

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Humaira –

Aquilegia

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Q – When I was 4, I was given this plant as a tiny seedling. Would you be able to help me identify the name of this plant?

(4 minutes 24 seconds)

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Anne –

Colocasia (Taro)

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Matthew –

Alocasia odora

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Q – A very good friend of mine will celebrate her 70th birthday at the end of May. I’d like to buy her a special and unusual plant to mark this special day. Could the panel please suggest a houseplant that’s either new or so unusual it’s unlikely she’ll already have one?

(7 minutes 18 seconds)

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Humaira –

Monstera Adansonii 'Archipelago'

Begonia maculata ‘°Â¾±²µ³ó³Ù¾±¾±â€™

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Matthew –

Calathea 'White Fusion'

SansevieriaÌýtrifasciata 'Bantel's Sensation'

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Anne –

Caladium

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Q – When you have daffodils in your garden, the advice is to deadhead. Down here in Cornwall, the roadsides are bursting with daffodils; these do not get deadheaded yet year after year they look fab. Why?

(10 minutes 54 seconds)

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Feature – Ashley Edwards on how and why to deadhead Ìý

(14 minutes)

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NarcissusÌý‘Rijnveld'sÌýEarly Sensation’

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Q – How can I preserve this tree for years to come?

(17 minutes, 21 second)

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Anne –

Populus nigra (black poplar)

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Q – What plants or shrubs would you suggest that would help absorb and mask the smells of frying onions, chips and burgers coming from a burger wagon parked about 20 yards from our small back garden?

(20 minutes, 20 seconds)

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Anne –

Philadelphus coronarius (Mock orange)

Philadelphus ‘V¾±°ù²µ¾±²Ô²¹±ô’

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Matthew –

Elaeagnus

Cotoneaster franchetii

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Humaira –

Sarcococca

Daphnes

Edgeworthia

Clematis armandii

Lilium regale

Cercidiphyllum japonicum

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Q – 7 years ago I was given a rubber plant cutting. It is now very unbalanced in appearance. I do not want to risk losing the plant altogether and would like to return it to its former symmetrical self. Any advice?

(24 minutes, 24 seconds)

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Feature – Hazel Gardiner on bringing the outside in this Spring

(28 minutes, 39 seconds)

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Paperwhite narcissus

Miscanthus

Calamagrostis × acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’

Ranunculus asiaticus 'Cloni Success Hanoi'

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Q – For our wedding favours, we would like to put a small terracotta pot on each place setting with a colourful flower growing in it. We wonder whether the panel might have any suggestions of plants we can grow to put in these pots.

(31 minutes, 12 seconds)

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Humaira –

Nigella damascene (Love-in-a-mist)

Tagetes (Marigolds)

Thyme

Mint

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Matthew –

Violas

Echeveria

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Anne –

Pelargonium crispum 'Variegatum'

Pelargonium 'Islington Peppermint'

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Q – Many buds on my rhododendron are dead alongside the living ones. Any idea of a diagnosis for this? How may I assist this rhododendron for future blossom?

(35 minutes, 16 seconds)

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Q – I would love to know what special, uplifting sounds do the panel look forward to hearing in their gardens every year.

(37 minutes, 11 seconds)

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