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A weekly date with Percy Thrower and his gardening friends.

This week he advises on: Planting blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes; cutting down chrysanthemums which have finished flowering; watering and care of a cyclamen plant.
His guest today is: Arthur Billitt who shows how a lot of colourful plants and shrubs can be grown in a backyard with the help of special but inexpensive cultivation methods. In this visit he shows the methods and tells of the preparatory work to be done during the winter for planting out next spring.
Produced by John Farrington in the BBC's Midland television studio
(A BBC telerecording)

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Guest:
Arthur Billitt
Producer:
John Farrington

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