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Last broadcast on Sun, 26 Feb 2012, 14:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness and Anne Swithinbank are on the panel. Eric Robson chairs.
Matt James explores how the slag heaps around Cornwall's polluted and now defunct tin mines are being cleaned up and replanted as a massive new park.
Producer: Howard Shannon
A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4.
The Harlequin ladybird
Does it spell trouble for we gardeners and our native ladybird varieties?
Matt James meets the team at Heartlands Gardens near Redruth
Once the site of a derelict and highly polluted tin mine; soil remediation has removed all the toxins.
The old shaft works
A focal point for the Heartlands Gardens themed on where Cornish miners have worked around the world.
Questions answered in this week’s show
1. An age-old quandary for every gardener is finally answered - are snowdrops the last flower of the winter or the first of spring?
2. Armed with a dramatic sample of an oozing branch, one gentleman wants to know why the branches of his otherwise healthy Conference pear have exploded?
3. Following last year's disaster of wilting flowers across the UK, a lady asks the team if they would plant Busy Lizzies this spring?
4. The panel tries to get to the bottom of a mysterious hole in flower buds as they are asked - "what is eating my Camellia flower buds?"
5. Ahead of a move to Cambridge, a father wonders if his daughter can take her autumn raspberries when she moves house?
6. One lady appears to have the perfect growing conditions in her Cornish garden (sun, right soil, good light) so why can't she grow hollyhocks?
7. With a 68 acre garden to maintain, a lady asks how can her bluebells fight back against invasive wild garlic?
8. A lovely way to end the show as marital harmony is threatened. "My husband wants a monkey puzzle - I hate them - in the panel's eyes, what are the pros and cons of planting?"
Broadcasts
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Fri 24 Feb 201215:00
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Sun 26 Feb 201214:00
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