Uxbridge: Floating Gardens, mealybugs and garden envy

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

Q – How do you successfully take cuttings from a hydrangea? (03’35”)

Anne Swithinbank –

Hydrangea paniculata, panicled hydrangea 

Matthew Biggs –

Hydrangea paniculata Pinky-Winky ('Dvppinky'PBR”), panicled hydrangea [Pinky-Winky]

Q – How do I get rid of mealy bug on my cacti and succulents? (06’31”)

Q – What advice can the panel give me, when transplanting my blueberry bushes from clay soil to my allotment? (09’14”)

Q – When would be the best time to repot my overwintered cannas? (12’13”)

FEATURE – Matthew Biggs visits Mount Vernon Cancer Centre where he meets Ginny Abu Bakr and Billy Styles to discuss how they’ve introduced gardening to cope with chemotherapy treatment (15’39”)

Anne Swithinbank –

Malus × zumi 'Golden Hornet', crab apple 'Golden Hornet'

James Wong –

Ipomoea purpurea, common morning glory

Q – Could the panel give some ideas please of bulbs that do well in full shade? (25’14”)

Anne Swithinbank  -

Chionodoxa 'Pink Giant', squill 'Pink Giant'

James Wong –

Eucomis

Eucomis comosa, pineapple lily

Eucomis vandermerwei 'Octopus', pineapple lily 'Octopus'

Phormium, new zealand flax

Fatsia, glossy leaf paper plant

Zantedeschia 'Hercules', arum lily 'Hercules'

Zantedeschia aethiopica, arum lily

Matthew Biggs –

Arisaema sikokianum, japanese cobra lily

Trilliums, wake robin

Podophyllum

Anemone nemorosa 'Robinsoniana', wood anemone 'Robinsoniana'

Roscoea

Q – What’s happening to the leaves of my double camellia? There’s lots of pale patches on them! (30’45”) 

Q – Please can you give us some advice about setting up and maintaining a floating garden that produces tasty food but excludes carrots, radishes, lettuces and tomatoes? (34’11”)

Anne Swithinbank –

Courgettes

French Beans

Q – Occasionally, I have garden envy. Do the panel members suffer from this? And if so, whose garden? (36’49”)