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Horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts

A panel of horticultural experts answer gardening questions from a live audience. Recorded in a different location each week

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Gardeners' Question Time: From The Archives: Hot & Dry

From The Archives: Hot & Dry

BBC Radio 4 - Gardeners' Question Time, From The Archives: Hot & Dry

Horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts.

Kathy Clugston looks back over 76 years of hot and dry weather advice on this special archive edition of GQT.

Summer is upon us once again and gardeners all over the country have been finding various ways to adapt their gardens to the hot and dry conditions. The GQT team have sorted through the archives in search for some questions and answers from our horticultural experts over various episodes. 

They share their knowledge on how to water a garden without wasting too much water, what perennial flowers can survive dry conditions and require low maintenance, and how you can create a drought-resistant garden that supports wildlife and biodiversity.

And later we listen back to when Matthew Wilson visited the Beth Chatto Garden in Essex - to see how they adapt to the hot & dry summers

Producer: Daniel Cocker 
Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod 
Executive Producer: Hannah Newton

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