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

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Q – I’m moving onto a narrowboat in the autumn. I’m going to have some small, raised beds on the roof. Can you suggest plants that can tolerate being in full sunlight and are short enough to squeeze under bridges? Some plant suggestions for inside the boat, would also be appreciated!

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James –

Thrift

Begonia pavoniana, ‘Peacock begonia’

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Pippa –

Lemon thyme

Marjoram

Sage, ‘Tricolor’

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Q – Can you recommend an attractive climber for total shade that isn’t hedera?

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Anne –

Hydrangea

Pileostegia

Schizophragma

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James –

Ficus pumila, Creeping fig

Chilean bellflower, Lapageria rosea

Monstera

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Q – I have a nut garden consisting of box hedging, but I’ve also got a box moth infestation. Is it worth treating or should I pull the whole thing out and start again?

(7 minutes 59 seconds)

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Q – Help! The soil in our garden is sandy having previously been a seabed – we regularly find shells. What should I add to it? Grit? Mushroom compost? Topsoil? Or all of them? I want to put plants that should be on the Romney Marsh back into the environment.

(11 minutes 25 seconds)

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Thrift

Sea kale

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Anne –

Horned poppy

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Feature – Curator Emily Sargent shows regular panellist James Wong around the Rooted Beings exhibition at Wellcome Collection, an exhibition which asks us to reconsider our relationship to the plants we take for granted in our everyday life.

(15 minutes 30 seconds)

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Emily –

Passiflora, Passion flower

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James –

Banisteriopsis caapi, Ayahuasca

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Q – I love my winter-flowering cherry tree, prunus × subhirtella 'Autumnalis Rosea'. What factors stimulate flowering over such a long period of three seasons?

(22 minutes 18 seconds)

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Anne –

Viburnum × bodnantense

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Q – How do I get the stripes back on my indoor plant? Since I’ve divided it, the plant has faded back to green.

(26 minutes 33 seconds)

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James –

Sansevieria cylindrica

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Q – My rosemary plant developed a white fungus, which I had to remove from the plant, cutting off the dead branches, but the fungus came back. Can I save it?

(33 minutes 24 seconds)

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Q – Have the panel ever named their houseplants? And if so, is there a story behind them?

(36 minutes 35 seconds)

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Swiss cheese plant

Strelitzia reginae

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Pippa –

Yucca