GQT at Home: Cuddly Conifers and Creamy Miscanthus
Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts.
Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. Matt Biggs, Bunny Guinness and James Wong are on hand to answer the gardening queries.
This week our panellists share what unexpected wonders their gardens are displaying this Autumn season, whilst handing out a plethora of tips on pruning, training, and seeing your plants through the Winter.
Meanwhile, we join Juliet Sargeant as she shares the joys of watching Autumn set in and travel to East Sussex to hear Claire Ratinon's pitch for why everyone should grow their own vegetables.
Producer - Hannah Newton
Assistant Producer - Bethany Hocken
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Questions and timecodes are below. Where applicable, plant names have been provided.
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Q – What’s going on in the panellists’ gardens?
(1 minute 26 seconds)
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Matt –
Virginia creeper
Forsythia
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Bunny –
Kale
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James –
Waterlily, ‘Helvola’
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Q – Do
plants shut down photosynthesis in full light? Can my strawberry plants
overheat?
(3 minutes 7 seconds)
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Matt –
Strawberry gauva
Lemon, ‘Four Seasons’
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Bunny –
Borage
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James –
Grapefruit
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Q – How do can I help my Camellia flowers show in amongst the plant’s leaf display? Any pruning tips?
(5 minutes 37 seconds)
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Q – How to train and prune my Pyracantha?
(8 minutes)
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Q – Are there any overhanging plants that can survive over the winter months?
(10 minutes 51 seconds)
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James –
Ivy
Gaultheria
Cyclamen
Hellebore
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Bunny –
Sedum ‘Dream Dazzler’ (SunSparkler Series)
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Matt –
‘P²¹²Ô²õ²â’
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Feature –
Juliet Sargeant waxes lyrical about watching Autumn set in
(14 minutes)
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Hogweed
Veronicastrum
Clematis tangutica
Crab apple ‘Red Sentinel’, Malus
Cork oak
Redwood
Prunus serrulata
Silver birch
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Q – Is
there anything I can do to retain my Gleditsia ‘Sunburst’s’ golden
leaves for longer? How hard should I prune it back when I’d like to raise the
canopy?
(17 minutes 24 seconds)
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Q – Why is my ornamental grass, the Miscanthus ‘Morning light’ not flowering?
(22 minutes)
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Matt –
Emmenopterys henryi
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Feature – Claire Ratinon joins us from East Sussex to encourage everyone to grow your own
(26 minutes 10 seconds)
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Meteor
‘Kelvedon Wonder’
Garlic
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Q – Could the panel suggest some shrub varieties to potentially replace our Conifer?
(30 minutes 10 seconds)
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Bunny –
Myrtle
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James –
Japanese maple
Schefflera taiwaniana
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Matt –
Athyrium otophorum var. okanum
Dryopteris erythrosora
Q – Can you identify this plant that flowers for one day?
(37 minutes 26 seconds)
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Matt –
Tigridia pavonia
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Bunny –
Daylily
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Horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts