Wellcome Collection
Kathy Clugston and the panel are at Wellcome Collection, London.
Kathy Clugston and the panel are in London. Fielding your horticultural queries this week are Anne Swithinbank, Pippa Greenwood and James Wong.
This week, the team get suitably scientific as they answer questions from a live audience at Wellcome Collection, London, a museum exploring health and the human experience. The panel share their knowledge on vernalisation, chimeral variegation, and the process that makes watermelons from Bulgaria taste so sweet. They'll also be offering up some adventurous recommendations for climbers to grow in total shade and planting on a narrowboat.
Away from the questions, curator Emily Sargent shows regular panellist James Wong around the Rooted Beings exhibition at Wellcome Collection, an exhibition which asks us to reconsider our relationship to the plants we take for granted in our everyday life.
Producer: Dominic Tyerman
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� I鈥檓 moving onto a narrowboat in the autumn. I鈥檓 going to have some small, raised beds on the roof. Can you suggest plants that can tolerate being in full sunlight and are short enough to squeeze under bridges? Some plant suggestions for inside the boat, would also be appreciated!
(1 minutes 11 seconds)听
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James 鈥�
Thrift
Begonia pavoniana, 鈥楶eacock begonia鈥�
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Pippa 鈥�
Lemon thyme
Marjoram
Sage, 鈥楾ricolor鈥�
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Q 鈥� Can you recommend an attractive climber for total shade that isn鈥檛 hedera?
(4 minutes 11 seconds)听
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Anne 鈥�
Hydrangea
Pileostegia
Schizophragma
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James 鈥�
Ficus pumila, Creeping fig
Chilean bellflower, Lapageria rosea
Monstera
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Q 鈥� I have a nut garden consisting of box hedging, but I鈥檝e also got a box moth infestation. Is it worth treating or should I pull the whole thing out and start again?
(7 minutes 59 seconds)
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Q 鈥� Help! The soil in our garden is sandy having previously been a seabed 鈥� we regularly find shells. What should I add to it? Grit? Mushroom compost? Topsoil? Or all of them? I want to put plants that should be on the Romney Marsh back into the environment.
(11 minutes 25 seconds)
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Thrift
Sea kale
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Anne 鈥�
Horned poppy
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Feature 鈥� Curator Emily Sargent shows regular panellist James Wong around the Rooted Beings exhibition at Wellcome Collection, an exhibition which asks us to reconsider our relationship to the plants we take for granted in our everyday life.
(15 minutes 30 seconds)
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Emily 鈥�
Passiflora, Passion flower
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James 鈥�
Banisteriopsis caapi, Ayahuasca
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Q 鈥� I love my winter-flowering cherry tree, prunus 脳 subhirtella 'Autumnalis Rosea'. What factors stimulate flowering over such a long period of three seasons?
(22 minutes 18 seconds)
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Anne 鈥�
Viburnum 脳 bodnantense
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Q 鈥� How do I get the stripes back on my indoor plant? Since I鈥檝e divided it, the plant has faded back to green.
(26 minutes 33 seconds)
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James 鈥�
Sansevieria cylindrica
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Q 鈥� My rosemary plant developed a white fungus, which I had to remove from the plant, cutting off the dead branches, but the fungus came back. Can I save it?
(33 minutes 24 seconds)
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Q 鈥� Have the panel ever named their houseplants? And if so, is there a story behind them?
(36 minutes 35 seconds)
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Swiss cheese plant
Strelitzia reginae
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Pippa 鈥�
Yucca
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