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Peter Gibbs and the GQT team are in the Cotswolds to answer your horticultural queries.

How do you grow a decent sized cauliflower? Why should I tolerate slugs in my garden? What plants are the panel obsessed with?

The GQT team are in the Cotswolds to share all of their green-fingered tips with an enthusiastic audience. Raring to get rid of all our horticultural woes are garden designers Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson, and plant pathologist Pippa Greenwood.

Alongside the panel’s horticultural advice, Dr Chris Thorogood is in the Philippines to meet Anna Lee who tells him about all the ways her team are protecting the local plant life.

Producer: Dom Tyerman
Assistant Producer: Dulcie Whadcock
Executive Producer: Hannah Newton

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42 minutes

Last on

Sun 25 Jun 2023 14:00

Plant List

Plant List

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

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Q – How do you grow decent sized Cauliflower?

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Q – What can I do to save my lawn?

(4 minutes 50 seconds)Ìý


Matthew –

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Camassia

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Species Tulips

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TulipaÌýsprengeri

Ìý Erythronium mesochoreum


Q – What should I do with my overgrown 10 meter high trees? Ìý

(8 minutes 54 seconds)

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Feature – Chris Thorogood learns about plant poaching.

(13 minutes 20 seconds)


Q – How do you correctly dispose of weeds?

(19 minutes 34 seconds)


Q – Why should I tolerate slugs?

(23 minutes 16 seconds)

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Q – Have you ever encountered alkaline tolerate rhododendrons?

(29 minutes 02 seconds)

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Bunny –

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inkarho hybriden

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Q – What bright colours should I add to my shady border?

(33 minutes 31 seconds)

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Matthew –

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BrunneraÌýmacrophyllaÌý'Jack Frost

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luzula nivea

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silene fimbriata

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Pippa –

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Hosta

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Hellebores

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Native Blue Bells

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herbaceous geranium

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Q – What plants are the panel obsessed with?

(38 minutes 04 seconds)


Pippa –

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Daffodils

Snowdrops

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Bunny –

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Italian Parsley


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