Gardeners' Question Time: Exbury Gardens
Kathy Clugston and the team are in Exbury, Hampshire.
Kathy Clugston is in the village of Exbury in Hampshire. She's joined by Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Wilson and Christine Walkden to answer the audience's horticultural queries.
This week, the panellists discuss the best way to eliminate horsetail and green fly, pollinator-friendly plants for year-round flowers, and the use of the word 'dirt'.
Stepping away from the questions, Pippa Greenwood meets Exbury Gardens' Head Gardener Tom Clarke as he shows her around the dragonfly pond.
Producer: Daniel Cocker
Assistant Producer: Bethany Hocken
A Somethin' Else production for 麻豆社 Radio 4
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Questions and timecodes are below. Where applicable, plant names have been provided.
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Q 鈥� Are there any organic or non-toxic methods for eliminating mare鈥檚 tails?
(3 minutes 48 seconds)听
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Matthew 鈥�
Rodgersia
Hosta
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Q 鈥� How do I propagate my lobelia tupa?
(6 minutes 32 seconds)听
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Matthew 鈥�
Echium pininana
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Q 鈥� What can I do to get rid of green fly on my rose?
(9 minutes 16 seconds)
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Q 鈥� How important is it to plant hedging plants at the same depth that they were planted at in the nursery?
(11 minutes 3 seconds)
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Feature 鈥� Pippa Greenwood meets Exbury Gardens鈥� Head Gardener Tom Clarke to marvel at the dragonfly pond
(14 minutes 40 seconds)
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Matthew 鈥�
Iris, flag
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Q 鈥� What pollinator friendly plants do you recommend for year-round flowers under deciduous trees such as oak trees?
(20 minutes 26 seconds)
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Christine 鈥�
Cyclamen
Cyclamen hederifolium
Cyclamen coum
Hesperantha
Sternbergia lutea
Puschkinia
Scilla
Muscari
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Matthew 鈥�
Comfrey
Japanese anemone
Digitalis
Sarcococca
Brunnera
Omphalodes
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Pippa 鈥�
Snowdrops
Waldsteinia ternata
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Q 鈥� I lost an acacia dealbata in the storms. I鈥檇 like to plant another one. Can I prune it as a shrub or is it happier being a tall tree?
(25 minutes 26 seconds)
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Matthew 鈥�
Arbutus 脳 andrachnoides
Sophora Sun King
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Q 鈥� I have recently cut down some old apple trees that had canker. What fruit trees can I now plant against an east facing fence?
(31 minutes 33 seconds)
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Pippa 鈥�
Morello cherry
Plum
Damson
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Christine 鈥�
鈥楳irabelle鈥� plum
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Q 鈥� What shrubs and climbers do you recommend for bees in the middle of winter?
(30 minutes 44 seconds)
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Christine 鈥�
Ivy
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Pippa 鈥�
Witch hazel, Hamamelis
Winter-flowering honeysuckle, Lonicera fragrantissima
Sarcococca
Wintersweet, Chimonanthus praecox
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Q 鈥� What gardening jobs can the team suggest for me to join my husband in the garden 鈥� bearing in mind I have dodgy knees, a temperamental back, and I don鈥檛 really enjoy getting dirt under my fingernails?
(36 minutes 10 seconds)
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Matthew 鈥�
Pelargonium
Camellia
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