Staffordshire: Dogs, Gradient Gardens and Aphrodisiacs
What could I grow under my sycamore tree? How can I stop my dog from digging holes in my garden? What conditions do walnut trees grow best in? The GQT team have all the answers.
How can I stop my dog from digging holes in my garden? What conditions do walnut trees grow best in? If you could lose one pest from your garden, what would it be?
Peter Gibbs and a team of experts are in Staffordshire, to solve the gardening conundrums of the audience. Returning to the National Memorial Arboretum with Peter are grow-your-own legend Bob Flowerdew, pest and disease expert Pippa Greenwood and garden designer Bunny Guinness.
Later in the programme, is your garden on an gradient? Garden designer Matthew Wilson provides tricks and tips on the best way to effectively garden on an incline.
Producer: Dan Cocker鈥�
Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod鈥�
Executive Producer: Carly Maile
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.
Q 鈥� What can I do to stop my dog from digging holes in my garden? (01鈥�47鈥�)
Q 鈥� How can I keep my geraniums through the winter without a greenhouse? I do not like pots on window ledges (04鈥�39鈥�)
Q 鈥� We have several mature yew hedges that are up to 100 years old, all of them are doing well apart from one which has become very poorly - How do we help it survive? (7鈥�50鈥�)
Q 鈥� I've got two quince trees that are look infected 鈥� could they be suffering with quince tree disease? Is it treatable? (12鈥�52鈥�)
Feature 鈥� gardening on a gradient with Matthew Wilson (19鈥�09鈥�)
Q 鈥� What could I grow under my sycamore tree? (23鈥�42鈥�)
Bunny Guinness 鈥�
Salvia听pratensis听'Lapis Lazuli', clary 'Lapis Lazuli'
Filipendula听purpurea听splendens
Helleborus听脳听sternii, stern's hybrid hellebore
Polystichum听setiferum, soft shield fern
Polystichum, shield ferns
Pippa Greenwood 鈥�
Anthriscus听sylvestris, cow parsley
Cyclamen: hardy
Galanthus, anowdrops
Anemone听nemorosa, wood anemone
Waldsteinia听ternate, siberian waldsteinia
native bluebells
Q 鈥� What can I grow in a cold, small greenhouse that gives me colour this winter? (29鈥�07鈥�)
Pippa Greenwood 鈥�
Orchids
Cacti
Lettuces
Bob Flowerdew 鈥�
universal pansies.
yellow primroses
Hyacinthus, hyacinths
Galanthus, snowdrops
Bunny Guinness 鈥�
Camellias
Q 鈥� I'd like to know, what are the best conditions to enable a walnut tree to thrive? (32鈥�50鈥�)
Q - If you could lose one pest from your garden, what would it be? (36鈥�14鈥�)
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