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

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Q – We’re postponing our summer fetes to October. What plants can I grow from cuttings that will be at their best at that time of year?

(1 minute 13 seconds)

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Chris – Dahlia

Stipa

Cosmos

Grapes

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Pippa – Genovese basil

Streptocarpus

African violets

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Q – Can you identify the problem with my sprouting broccoli which are pale with grey speckles on some leaves? I have had slug problems before.

(4 minutes 50 seconds)

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Q – I’ve been growing two Bay trees for a few years which have reached around 170cm (67 inches) before the first leaf shoots, which I want to train into a ball. How do I get the trunk of the tree to thicken? It’s currently as thick as a bamboo shoot.

(8 minutes 16 seconds)

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Q – Please could the panel give me some ideas for colour in the garden between after the spring bulbs have gone and before the summer plants bloom.

(11 minutes 35 seconds)

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Matt – Clematis

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Pippa – Dicentra spectabilis

Iris

Forget-me-not

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Feature – Botanical Tattoos with Matthew Wilson

(16 minutes 45 seconds)

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Rebecca - Dog-rose

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Q – I moved my Golden Oats Grass (Stipa Gigantea) into a different position in the garden recently. It is now looking poorly with its leaves scorched and yellow. Should I not have moved it? What should I do next?

(21 minutes 7 seconds)

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Chris – Echinacea

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Q – I have three fruit trees planted against a sunny south-west facing fence. I have noticed some ant activity near my peach tree. I can’t see any signs of aphids but there are little nodules on the leaves and leaf stems. The leaves are also sticky. Should I be worried?

(25 minutes 13 seconds)

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Feature – Pruning in June with Anne Swithinbank

(27 minutes 29 seconds)

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Philidelphus mock orange

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Kolkwitzia Amabilis ‘Beauty bush’

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Evergreens

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Osyris Lanceolata

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Pittosporum

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Rosemary

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Viburnum Farreri

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Q – My chives are acting strangely and the heads are falling off, about an inch down from the base of the flower. I’ve had the original plant for over 30 years which has been split many times and this has never happened before.

(31 minutes 50 seconds)

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Sycamore tree

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Q - from the Duchess of Cornwall – What variety of lavender would Dee Lavender have been and is it possible to find it?

(35 minutes 18 seconds)

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Matt - Munstead Lavender

Lavender angustifolia 'Torramhor'Ìý(lost variety)