Chippy welcomes Gardeners Question Time (From Witney Gazette)

Chippy welcomes Gardeners Question Time

9:29am Tuesday 13th February 2007 in Witney By Tim Hughes

PLANT-lovers from around West Oxfordshire picked up invaluable advice from the experts during a recording of BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time.

Gardeners and allotment holders bombarded the panel with a range of horticultural queries during the recording at Chipping Norton Theatre, on yesterday evening.

The recording will go out as two programmes - the first being broadcast at 2pm on March 4.

Dispensing advice at the theatre were organic gardening expert Bob Flowerdew, pest and disease specialist Pippa Greenwood, and landscape gardener John Cushie. The chairman was Eric Robson.

Such was the level of interest in joining the audience for the recording, 201 free tickets for the event were snapped up within days of being released last month.

Stephen Birch, the theatre's Audience Development Officer, said: "The programme is celebrating its 60th anniversary - and as part of those celebrations it decided to come to Chipping Norton. It was nice to welcome them. We are a rural town in the Cotswolds with a lot of keen gardeners. This was a very appropriate place to come."