Postbag Edition: Belfast Botanic Garden

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

Q – What causes blind daffodils? (03’47”)

Q – I have two lemon trees, a lime tree and a mature olive tree. Could you please suggest an all-round liquid feed for them? (06’55”)

Q – My 40-year-old ponytail palm has grown too tall, should I cut it? (13’18”)

Q – What could I grow up a five-foot-high north facing fence on clay soil in the rainy veil of Glamorgan? (15’48”)

Neil Porteous –

Clematis montana var. grandiflora (M), white anemone clematis

Colin Agnew –

Viburnum

James Wong –

Hedera helix, common Ivy

Q – Why are my potato floury? (18’16”)

Q – Do you have any tips for preventing our banana plants from under developing? (22’52”)

Neil Porteous –

Musa basjoo, Japanese banana

James Wong –

Musa cavendishii, banana 'Dwarf Cavendish'

Q – How do I get rid of the lace bug? (25’17”)

Q – Can the panel suggest a tree to plant to a fill the gap and ideally add colour to what is now a very dark corner? (27’28”)

Neil Porteous –

Betula ermanii 'Grayswood Hill’, erman's birch 'Grayswood Hill’

Acer palmatum, Japanese maple

Acer palmatum 'Sango-kaku' (P), coral-bark maple

Kirsty Wilson –

Acer × freemanii Autumn Blaze ('Jeffersred'), freeman maple [autumn breeze]

James Wong –

Toona sinensis, Chinese cedar

Colin Agnew–

Acer campestre, field maple

Q – How do I control my Rosa lutea with losing the beautiful flowers? (32’47”)

Q – What plant are the panel still searching for? (36’25”)

Kirsty Wilson –

Cardiocrinum giganteum, giant Himalaya lily

Neil Porteous –

Acer pentaphyllum, chinese maple

James Wong –

Rubus Glaucas, andean blackberry