GQT At Home: Episode Seventeen

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

Q – I’m looking to add some plants to my garden that remind me of my family. Do you have any suggestions of plants that match my family’s names (Dolly, Tom, Richard, Catherine?)

(51 seconds)

Matthew – Hosta ‘Catherine’

Pittosporum ‘Tom Thumb’

Colchicum ‘Dick Trotter’

Rose

Pippa – Narcissus ‘Peeping Tom’

Tomato

Matt – Cortaderia Richardii

Crocus Tommasinianus

Q – I’ve spotted some poppies flowering that I’d like to grow myself. When is the best time to collect the seeds and how should I try and grow them?

(3 minutes 57 seconds)

Q – Are banana peels a suitable fertiliser for runner beans and if so, how do you go about making it? If not, can you recommend any other organic fertilisers?

(5 minutes 55 seconds)

Matt – Roses

Tomato fertiliser

Q – We are in the process of renovating our concrete garden and have made space for two trees. Can the panel suggest some that would not cast a large shadow or grow much above 4-5m.

(8 minutes 5 seconds)

Matthew – Strawberry Tree Arbutus Unedo

Azara Microphylla

Matt – Topiary Tree

Hakonechloa macra 'All Gold'

Alliums ‘Globemaster’

Feature – Grow2Know founder, Tayshan Hayden-Smith, with James Wong

(11 minutes 43 seconds)

Tomato

Q – Are there any particular plants that would fair ok in extreme light and heat right up against a window? I live in a small flat with a large south-facing window and would love to line the windowsill with plants but don’t want them to get scorched.

(19 minutes 15 seconds)

Matt – Cacti and Succulents

Adenium Obesum

Aloes

Matthew – Palms

Yucca Elephantipes

Beaucarnea recurvata ‘Elephant’s Foot’

Bird of Paradise

Yucca ‘Puk’

Q – One of our Albus Lacinata trees, which we bought for our daughter’s wedding, is drying out and has started to drop its leaves. What should we do so that the lacinata is ready for the new wedding date?

(22 minutes 17 seconds)

Matthew – Tuberous begonia

Begonia Semperflorens

Cleome

Dahlia

Q – What is destroying the leaves of my Indian bean tree? It happens every year!

(26 minutes 12 seconds)

Matthew – Catalpa

Feature – History of Nasturtiums with Advolly Richmond

(28 minutes 38 seconds)

Nasturtium tropaeolum majus

Nasturtium indicum

‘East Indian Cress’

Watercress

Tropaeolum majus

Capers

Q – Why are my nasturtiums not flowering?

(32 minutes 37 seconds)

Q – Do you have any top tips on caring for succulents? Can you overwater them?

(34 minutes 21 seconds)

Matthew – ‘Mother-in-Law’s Tongue’

Q – When should a keen gardener go on holiday? Going away during summer seems crazy as there is so much to do.

(38 minutes 23 seconds)

Matt – Daphne

Winter Flowering Honeysuckle