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Woman's Hour: Spring gardening, Succulents, Botanical cocktails

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Spring gardening, Succulents, Botanical cocktails

28/03/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Spring gardening, Succulents, Botanical cocktails

Jane Garvey visits Hyde Hall to talk spring flowers, vegetables, succulents and cocktails.

Jane Garvey visits Hyde Hall in Essex with Alys Fowler to discuss spring flowers, vegetable gardens, succulents and foraging. They also enjoy botanical cocktails with Lottie Muir.

Jane Garvey visits RHS Hyde Hall in Essex with horticulturalist and Guardian writer, Alys Fowler to discuss spring flowers, growing vegetables and foraging.

Matthew Oliver is in charge of planting plans for Hyde Hall's Global Growth Vegetable Garden - he tell how he hopes to inspire young people to grow their own. And Karen Robbirts who works on plant trials at RHS Wisley explains how they decide which ornamental plants and vegetables to test for their Award of Garden Merit.

Heather Cutmore is in charge of propagation at Hyde Hall and talks about succulents for indoors and out. And horticulturalist and mixologist, Lottie Muir mixes a couple of cocktails from her book Wild Cocktails from the Midnight Apothecary.

Presented by Jane Garvey
Produced by Jane Thurlow.

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