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

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Q – I’m having a baby soon and also 16m (52ft) of mixed borders which are bursting into life – is there anything we can do now to minimise maintenance for the next few months and ensure everything is blooming in the summer?

(2 minutes 50 seconds)

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Q – How can you tell when potatoes are ready to dig up?

(5 minutes 34 seconds)

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Q – Please can you identify this plant I saw at Wallington Hall.

(7 minutes 56 seconds)

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Anne – Thalictrum aquilegiifolium (Meadow-rue)

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Q – Could you give me some perennial planting suggestions for a sloping earth bank of 4ft (1.2m) in permanent shade.

(9 minutes 36 seconds)

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Chris – Bergenia ‘Bressingham White’

Trachystemon orientalis

Dryopteris

Polystichum

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James – Mind-your-own-business

Pachysandra

Galium

Vinca

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Feature – History of The Chelsea Flower Show

(12 minutes 52 seconds)

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Q – I love Alliums but mine never stay upright – can you help. I garden in clay soil.

(16 minutes 32 seconds)

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Chris – Allium ‘Summer Drummer’

Allium sphaerocephalon

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Q – I’m worried my Alliums have Allium Stripe virus – what can I do?

(18 minutes 27 seconds)

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Q – Which plants are most memorable (both positive and negative) for the panel from Chelsea Flower Shows gone by?

(20 minutes 7 seconds)

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Chris – Lamium orvala

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Anne – Carex

Ophiopogon

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Q – Can the team suggest something I can plant against a wall that will give pleasure to the neighbour whose door opens out to it?

(23 minutes 33 seconds)

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Chris – Pileostegia viburnoides

Lonicera ‘Graham Thomas’

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Anne – Robinia hispida

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James – Jasmiium polyanthum

Jasminum sambac

Trachelospermum jasminoides

Campsis

Clianthus

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Feature – Sue Biggs, Director General of RHS

(29 minutes 22 seconds)

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Q – I have two Rhododendrons (loderi type) in pots which were beautifully in bloom until suddenly one day the flowers turned brown and wilted. The same thing happened to my container-grown Camellia, Hydrangea, Azaleas, Acers, Astilbe – what is going on?

(35 minutes 33 seconds)

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Q – What are the panel’s day jobs, and what do you do day-to-day?

(39 minutes 22 seconds)