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Kathy Clugston and her horticultural experts are here to answer your gardening queries.

Is it worse to over water or under water hanging baskets? Does rhubarb have a life expectancy? Are south facing gardens worthy of the hype?
 
Kathy Clugston and the GQT team are in Worsley, at the stunning gardens of RHS Bridgewater to answer more horticultural queries. Joining her this week are garden designer Bunny Guinness, proud plantsman Neil Porteous and Marcus Chilton-Jones, curator of RHS Bridgewater.
 
Peter Gibbs visits Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where Head of Garden Design, Richard Wilford gives him a sneak preview of the brand new design of their famous herbaceous border.

Producer: Dan Cocker

Assistant Producer: Dulcie Whadcock

Executive Producer: Hannah Newton

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42 minutes

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Sun 6 Aug 2023 14:00

Plant List

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

 

Q – Which of the two is worse – over watering or under watering hanging baskets?

(1 minutes 28 seconds) 

 

Q – What’s causing the leaves of my roses to curl up and how can I save them?

(4 minutes 49 seconds) 

 

Q – Is having a south facing gardens as good as everyone says or are gardens in other directions a better choice?

(7 minutes 22 seconds)

 

Q – Why has my rhubarb stopped bearing fruit, and do they have a life expectancy?

(10 minutes 40 seconds)

 

Bunny –

 

Victoria Rhubarb

 

Feature – Peter Gibbs visits Kew Gardens to hear about their new Herbaceous Border.

(15 minutes 30 seconds)

 

Richard Wilford –

 

Phlomis Russeliana

 

 

Q – What’s the best hedging that will thrive in damp soil?

(21 minutes 59 seconds)

 

Neil –

 

Phormium Tenax

 

Marcus –

 

Dogwood

 

Cornus alba

 

Sibirica


Salix

 

Aspen

 

 

Bunny –

 

Hawthorn tree

 

Blackthorn

 

Hornbeam tree

 

Q – How do you deal with black flies on broad beans in a natural way?

(26 minutes 54 seconds)

 

Q – Have the panel experimented with chopping and dropping foliage to create mulch?

(28 minutes 49 seconds)

 

Q – What can I replace my Chaenomeles with that will thrive on a south facing brick wall?

(33 minutes 45 seconds)

 

Neil –

 

Clianthus Puniceus

 

Silver wattle

 

Bunny –

 

Rose

 

Daphne Jacqueline Postill

 

Cydonia Oblonga

 

Marcus –

 

Cercis Siliquastrum

 

Chaenomeles Cathayensis

 

 

Q – Where does the panel prefer to sit in their Garden and why?

(38 minutes 04 Seconds)

 

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  • Fri 4 Aug 2023 15:00
  • Sun 6 Aug 2023 14:00

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