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Suffolk Coast: green rooftops, unruly alexanders and dangerous pines

How can I control alexander plants? How can I encourage gage trees to flower? Do you have some tips for increasing biodiversity? Kathy Clugston and the team have the answers.

How can I control alexander plants? How can I encourage my gage trees to flower? What tips do the panellists have for increasing biodiversity?

Kathy Clugston and her team of green-fingered experts are by the Suffolk Coast to share their advice with an audience of garden enthusiasts.

On the panel are head gardeners Ashley Edwards and Matthew Pottage, and pest and disease expert Pippa Greenwood.

Meanwhile, Matthew Pottage explores the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. He dons his hard hat to get up close with a particularly dangerous local pine and admires the wollemi pine, a living fossil thought to be extinct for two million years until a small population was discovered in the Blue Mountains of Australia in 1994.

Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod
Senior Producer: Dominic Tyerman
Executive Producer: Carly Maile

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QÌę(1’26”): Is it safe to move my olive tree? If so, how and when?

QÌę(3’41”): Have you got any tips for sowing vegetables to ensure a long season?

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QÌę(7’05”): What can be done to control Alexander plants?

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Smyrnium perfoliatum ‘perfoliate alexanders’


QÌę(8’51”): I have a nine-year-old quince tree. It has black dust on it and the leaves are discoloured and falling off. What’s happening?

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QÌę(11’50”): The leaves on my houseplants have become brown, mottled and covered in tiny insects. My MonsteraÌę'Monkey Mask’is the worst affected. What’s the cause?

Feature: Matthew Pottage and Dominic Tyerman at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney

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AraucariaÌębidwillii Ìę‘Bunya-bunya pine’

Monkey puzzleÌę

WollemiaÌęnobilis Ìę‘Wollemi pine’

QÌę(23’25”): How can I reduce grass in my wild meadow roof?

QÌę(28’07”): I planted clematisÌętriternataÌę'Rubromarginata’last autumn but now the lower leaves are turning brown and red. What am I doing wrong?

QÌę(32’50”): I have two 10-year-old non-fruiting gage trees. How do I get them to flower?

Q:Ìę(35’01”) How would you increase garden biodiversity in one step?

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