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

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Q – I’ve read that the coloured grow lights are best for fruiting and flowering plants. Is white better for supplementing plant growth during the winter?

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Q – You always advise on planting seedlings in a compost that is low in nutrients and then potting on to a more nutrient rich soil but, obviously, this is not what happens in nature - why is it we must do this?

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Q – In the winter, our neighbours’ trees block all the sunshine from our garden, but when the sun is high in summer, we get many hours of sunshine. How can I pick plants for these conditions?

(5 minutes 48 seconds)

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Q – I’d like to grow a living willow screen with an archway to divide my small garden. I’d like to plant a clematis or another climber, at least over the arch, to give it colour – is this realistic? And would I have to put the plants in a container or in the soil with the willow.

(9 minutes 5 seconds)

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Feature – Matt Biggs visits the Kennet & Avon canal near Bath to chat to a gardener who has chosen to create a garden on top of her moving canal boat.

(14 minutes 17 seconds)

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Q – What unorthodox spaces have the panellists gardened in?

(21 minutes 22 seconds)

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Juliet –

Bearded Iris

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Q – How to keep a bonsai tree happy and alive?

(17 minutes 23 seconds)

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James –

Ficus benjamina

Podocarpus, ‘Buddha Pine’

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Q – We have laminated glass fittings in our bright, north-west facing extension. My house plants aren’t thriving. The glass fittings are a normal transparent colour, but it absorbs most ultraviolet light - could this make a difference?

(19 minutes 18 seconds)

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Q – I’m having a long-running battle with fungal gnats. Are they harmful to the plants? Can you help?

(23 minutes 0 seconds)

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Feature – Bob Flowerdew shares his advice on growing the yellowhorn, xanthoceras sorbifolium

(26 minutes 29 seconds)

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Q – Please can you advise me about what is happening to my cycad?

(29 minutes 59 seconds)

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Q – What jobs are there that you suggest for a career in horticulture or agriculture - in particular, are there any less well-known jobs and ones that you recommend? And secondly, how did you get to where you are, today, on GQT.

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