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Questions and time codes are below.

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Where applicable plant names are listed.

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Q – 2 and a half years ago I severely pruned my neighbours 100-year-old, very productive Bramley apple tree. Last year produced a much-reduced crop and this year nothing, not even a leaf. Can you recommend me ways of restoring the tree to life? (1 minute 40)

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Q – I have got an allotment. I like to grow lots of different vegetables, and I am trying to do something alternative next year. I was hoping to grow my squash and pumpkins vertically and wondered what you thought? (5 minutes 30)

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Q – I have a Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum) which I re-potted recently. It’s thriving and doing really well but all the new spathes are green rather than white and I wondered if you can advise on what I might do? (8 minutes 10)

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Q – Which perennials can be cut back to provide a second flush of flowers, and which flowers are only once. Is there a general rule? (11 minutes 15)

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Anne – Catmint (Nepeta)

Oriental Poppy (Papaver Orientale)

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Feature (13 minutes 20)

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Alpine Campanula (Campanula portenschlagiana)

Erodium

Phlox adsurgens ‘Wagon Wheels’

Alpine Alyssum Wulfenianum ‘Golden Spring’

Alpine Aubrieta

Arabis

Armeria maritima ‘T³ó°ù¾±´Ú³Ù’

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Q – We have a very large circular patch of ground in our lawn where we had a huge Conifer felled. The remaining stump which about 4-foot-high (1.2m) and wide is in the middle of it. Apart from having the stump ground out and reinstating the lawn – what can I do with the area? (23 minutes 15)

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Q – I am a big lover of hydrangeas and unfortunately one hydrangea has now got a disease on it. Do you know what it is? (26 minutes 55)

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Q – Can you tell me what is wrong with my plum tree? It’s called Coe’s Golden Drop and it’s a beautiful plum, but as soon as it ripens it always gets purple patch which then produces a brown lesion and the whole plum is destroyed. (34 minutes 20)

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Q – I have recently retired and will join my wife down at the allotment. What piece of wisdom can you give me that will make me look like a seasoned plantsman? (38 minutes)

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