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

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Q – Are there any organic or non-toxic methods for eliminating mare’s tails?

(3 minutes 48 seconds)Ìý

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Matthew –

Rodgersia

Hosta

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Q – How do I propagate my lobelia tupa?

(6 minutes 32 seconds)Ìý

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Matthew –

Echium pininana

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Q – What can I do to get rid of green fly on my rose?

(9 minutes 16 seconds)

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Q – How important is it to plant hedging plants at the same depth that they were planted at in the nursery?

(11 minutes 3 seconds)

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Feature – Pippa Greenwood meets Exbury Gardens’ Head Gardener Tom Clarke to marvel at the dragonfly pond

(14 minutes 40 seconds)

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Matthew –

Iris, flag

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Q – What pollinator friendly plants do you recommend for year-round flowers under deciduous trees such as oak trees?

(20 minutes 26 seconds)

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Christine –

Cyclamen

Cyclamen hederifolium

Cyclamen coum

Hesperantha

Sternbergia lutea

Puschkinia

Scilla

Muscari

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Matthew –

Comfrey

Japanese anemone

Digitalis

Sarcococca

Brunnera

Omphalodes

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Pippa –

Snowdrops

Waldsteinia ternata

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Q – I lost an acacia dealbata in the storms. I’d like to plant another one. Can I prune it as a shrub or is it happier being a tall tree?

(25 minutes 26 seconds)

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Matthew –

Arbutus × andrachnoides

Sophora Sun King

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Q – I have recently cut down some old apple trees that had canker. What fruit trees can I now plant against an east facing fence?

(31 minutes 33 seconds)

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Pippa –

Morello cherry

Plum

Damson

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Christine –

‘Mirabelle’ plum

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Q – What shrubs and climbers do you recommend for bees in the middle of winter?

(30 minutes 44 seconds)

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Christine –

Ivy

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Pippa –

Witch hazel, Hamamelis

Winter-flowering honeysuckle, Lonicera fragrantissima

Sarcococca

Wintersweet, Chimonanthus praecox

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Q – What gardening jobs can the team suggest for me to join my husband in the garden – bearing in mind I have dodgy knees, a temperamental back, and I don’t really enjoy getting dirt under my fingernails?

(36 minutes 10 seconds)

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Matthew –

Pelargonium

Camellia