James Wong

So let's bring them on so you can have a good look at them.

[audience laughing] Please welcome ethnobotanist and author, James Wong; head of horticultural and landscape strategy for the Royal Parks, Matthew Pottage; plant pathologist, Pippa Greenwood; and horticulturist, TV presenter, and writer, Francis Tophill.

Your Summer Garden Party Gardeners' Question Time panel.

[audience clapping] What a lovely welcome, Wisley.

[laughs] Oh, yeah, and that sort of fills in any gaps as well.

Yeah.

And what would be a sort of good pruning schedule, James Wong?

I would recommend pulling some of the branches down and making them more lateral.

few weeks ago.

James Wong as well.

So a number of familiar faces there and you can ask a question and it's all part of the recording.

So you will then be heard on Gardener's Question Time on Radio 4.

Let's just have some quick suggestions, panel, for this dry stone wall.

Let's start with you, James Wong.

Um, so sedums would work brilliantly.

Things like sempervivums would work incredibly well.

I mean, it's just amazing what you can get growing into those little spaces.

So yeah, go to town.

James Wong and Chris Beardshaw suggesting plants for a dry stone wall in Penzance in twenty twenty-three.

On that same visit, Anne Swithinbank crossed the causeway to St Michael's Mount, where she joined senior gardener Jack Beesly to find out how the island's combination of shelter, sea, and sunshine allows them to grow some wonderfully exotic plants all year round.