Gardeners' Question Time

How do I get my magnolia to flower? What are the best gardening jobs in November? Are lawns going out of fashion?
Peter Gibbs and the GQT panel are in Richmond discussing winter-flowering cherries, mycorrhizal pellets and orchids. Joining Peter to offer their best tips and tricks are  horticulturalist, Ashley Edwards, plantswoman and broadcaster, Christine Walkden and horticulturalist and garden writer, James Wong.
Producer: Matt Smith
Assistant Producer: Will Norton
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Peter Gibbs visits the award-winning Burrow Farm Gardens in East Devon, where founder Mary Benger shares the story of transforming what was once a farm into one of Britain’s favourite public gardens.
Joining Peter are Anne Swithinbank, Matthew Pottage and Pippa Greenwood. They answer listeners’ questions on creating year-round privacy with hedging, choosing resilient plants for woodland-edge gardens and coping with lily beetles.
There’s advice on selecting trees for a hot urban garden, growing flowers for a May wedding, and encouraging shrubs and small trees to thrive in difficult conditions.
Also, the team explores the woodland garden where Burrow Farm began more than sixty years ago.
Producer: Matt Smith
Assistant Producer: Will Norton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
* If listening on BBC Sounds and you wish to view the plant list, please go to the Gardeners' Question Time website and open this week's episode page.

Kathy Clugston  dusts the cobwebs off the Gardeners’ Question Time archives for a spooky selection of supernatural gardening advice from the past 79 years of the program.
This Halloween special is packed with ghostly gardening tales, monstrous pumpkins, and poisonous plants.
The panel share advice on encouraging bats into the garden, managing an invasion of spiders and revisit a compost bin so overrun with worms that it burst open.
Along the way, Chris Beardshaw ventures into the infamous Poison Garden at Alnwick,  home to over 100 toxic, intoxicating, and narcotic plants.
Producer: Dulcie Whadcock
Assistant Producer: Will Norton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
* If listening on BBC Sounds and you wish to view the plant list, please go to the Gardeners' Question Time website and open this week's episode page.

Which plants can I plant now that will survive the winter? Can you recommend a low-maintenance shrub for the garden? What should I grow to get my gardening mojo back?
Kathy Clugston and the GQT team are in the New Forest sharing their tips and tricks for the garden. Joining Kathy are  head gardener at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Bethan Collerton, pest and disease expert, Pippa Greenwood, and garden writer and designer, Matthew Wilson.
Later on, GQT regular Matthew Pottage visits Russell Stevens, head gardener Kensington Gardens to see the relocated Chelsea Flower Show garden.
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Kathy Clugston presents a special Potting Shed edition of Gardeners’ Question Time, recorded at the Summer Garden Party at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey.
Away from the main stage, visitors drop into the famous GQT potting shed for one-to-one advice from the panel. Dr Chris Thorogood, Marcus Chilton-Jones, Frances Tophill, Matthew Wilson, Matthew Pottage and James Wong help tackle a wide range of gardening dilemmas, from rescuing sun-scorched rhododendrons and reinvigorating star jasmine to choosing climate-resilient hedging and trees for a changing climate. Also, James Wong explores the growing scientific evidence behind gardening’s benefits for our health and wellbeing.
Producer: Rahnee Prescod
Assistant Producer: William Norton
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4
* If listening on BBC Sounds and you wish to view the plant list, please go to the Gardeners' Question Time website and open this week's episode page.