GQT at Home: Hugel Beds and Horseshoes
Kathy Clugston hosts this week's gardening Q&A with a panel of experts.
Kathy Clugston hosts this week's gardening Q&A with a panel of experts. Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and Chris Beardshaw join Kathy to answer the questions sent in by green-fingered listeners.
This week our panellists explain what a Hugelkultur bed is, and what you can grow in it. They share their garden memories and suggest some planting ideas for one listener's unique outdoor sculpture.
We also join Dr Chris Thorogood as he learns about the history of botanical photography from exhibition curator, Alex Moore. Meanwhile, in the dead of night, Pippa Greenwood is delighted by those beautiful, fascinating creatures - glow worms.
Producer - Jemima Rathbone
Assistant Producer - Millie Chu
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� If you could be in any garden in the UK or elsewhere, where would you be and why?
(1 minutes 12 seconds)
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Q 鈥� What evergreen flowers and plants could I plant as ground cover around my thirsty trees?
(3 minutes)
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Pippa 鈥�
Cyclamen
Waldsteinia ternata
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Chris 鈥�
Iris foetidissima
Iris foetidissima 鈥�Citrina鈥�
Daphne pontica
Cornus canadensis
Erica 听鈥楽pringwood White鈥�
Asplenium
Blechnum
Polypodium
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Bunny 鈥�
Asarum europaeum
Helleborus orientalis
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Q 鈥� There鈥檚 an unusual yellow residue in our asparagus bed. Is this something I should be worried about?
(8 minutes 3 seconds)
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Q 鈥� I have created a Hugel bed on my allotment, what can I grow on it?
(10 minutes 5 seconds)
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Feature 鈥� Chris Thorogood speaks with photography curator Alex Moore about his botanical exhibition, Unearthed: Photography鈥檚 Roots (13 minutes 25 seconds)
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Q 鈥� I have commissioned a 1.8m (5 feet 9 inches) sphere sculpture made of horseshoes for my husband鈥檚 birthday. We will stand it in a 1.2m (3 feet 9 inches) ground circle, what should I plant in and around it?
(20 minutes 16 seconds)
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Chris 鈥�
Clematis
Clematis alpina
Clematis 鈥楩rances Rivis鈥�
Clematis x durandii
Clematis viticella
Jasminum x stephanense
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Q 鈥� Can we dig up and move a tree peony? We want to replant the area.
(24 minutes 18 seconds)
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Feature 鈥� Pippa shares her delight in Lampyris noctilucam, also known as the glow worm.
(27 minutes 47 seconds)
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Q 鈥� Our lawn has been taken over by moss. Why has it appeared and what can we do about it?
(31 minutes 36 seconds)
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Bunny 鈥�
Euphorbia var. robbiae
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Chris 鈥�
Miscanthus
Fuchsia
Arbutus
Northofagus
Hydrangea
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Q 鈥� What are the most precious and sentimental things in your garden?
(35 minutes 30 seconds)
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Pippa 鈥�
Peony
Magnolia stellata
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