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A floral GQT summer

Amy Racs — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:28:10 +0000

This week we’re at the astonishing cut flower garden at Kelmarsh Hall, Northhampton: Some excellent suggestions for bouquet fillers.

Then, Matthew Wilson is forced to revise his attitude to Pelargoniums after a visit to specialist nursery.

Friday 20th August, 15:00

Sunday 22nd August, 14:00

Yew have to see it to believe it!

Amy Racs — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:37:03 +0000

Chris Beardshaw is on the impressive grounds of Gregynog Hall, Powys, Wales; finding out how to grow the perfect Yew hedge.

Joining him on the Gardeners’ Question Time panel are Matthew Biggs and Anne Swithinbank.

Listen on BBC Radio 4, 3pm Friday 8th August. Repeated at 2pm on Sunday 10th August.

Gardeners With Altitude!

Amy Racs — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:17:34 +0000

When the GQT panel learnt they were joining Blackshaw Head Optimistic Gardeners (aka Gardeners With Altitude), little did they know they would be answering questions in altitude too! I’m not sure they’ve ever recorded from the gallery of a chapel before, but that’s Hebden Bridge for you..

On air: Friday 23 July, 15:00 & repeated Sunday 25 July 14:00

The party continues..

Amy Racs — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:12:05 +0000

Back at the Gardeners’ Question Time Summer Garden Party to catch Peter Gibbs’ “Hot Pot “experiment – who knew that soil temperature could differ so greatly from one pot material to the other?

Meanwhile in the GQT Potting Shed, Pippa Greenwood meets GQT listeners and their diseased plants at the Pest & Disease Clinic.

Rosie Yeomans feeds back on a series of GQT trials being held at Sparsholt College.

The GQT Summer Garden Party!

Amy Racs — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:37:16 +0000

The best of the GQT Summer Garden Party, which this year took place at Sparsholt College, Hampshire. Highlights include Eric Robson as the reluctant flower-arranger, Bob’s Scrapheap Challenge and The Great Snail Swap.

All this and more gardening problem-solving from our indefatigable team of experts!

Friday 2nd July 15:00. Repeated Sunday 4th July 14:00.

To croc or not to croc?

Amy Racs — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:14:11 +0000

Radio 4′s Gardeners’ Question Time is in Leven near Hull, answering the million dollar question: Is there any point to crocking your pots?

Bob Flowerdew visits a nursery with a difference; while Matthew Biggs returns for an update from Emma Morris and family, as part of our Listeners’ Gardens series.

GQT heads north

Amy Racs — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:58:45 +0000

This week the Gardeners’ Question Time panel are in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire: Here’s everything you need to know about working with acid soil. Chairman Peter Gibbs ventures to Cambus O’May for a lesson on scots pine and silver birch.

Soil-free gardening

Amy Racs — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:39:20 +0000

Hydroponics in the home – listen to the ‘How To’ in this week’s Gardeners’ Question Time at 15:00 Friday and 14:00 on Sunday. In addition, Bunny Guinness, Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank tackle a gardening question from further afield than usual – a British army base in Afghanistan.

Gardeners’ Question Time has the answers!

Amy Racs — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:37:12 +0000

This week : Horticulturist Matt James investigates the dangers posed to the British countryside and waterways by invasive plants and Anne Swithinbank reveals the tricks of tulip cultivation.

The Q&A session comes from Nottinghamshire, with Bunny Guinness, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew.

Friday 30th April 2010, 3pm

Sunday 2nd May 2010, 2pm

Gardeners’ Question Time goes south

Amy Racs — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:23:36 +0000

This week, the GQT team are down in the deep south – well, Dorset actually. Matt Biggs, Chris Beardshaw and Anne Swithinbank are joined by chairman Peter Gibbs in Sturminster Newton. At the British Plant Fair, producer Howard Shannon suffers a wilting microphone – but the show goes on!

BBC Radio 4, Sunday 4th April 2010