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Phil McCann from the RHS answers your gardening questions

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RachelMumsnet · 29/06/2010 10:04

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is the UK's leading gardening charity. As a charity the RHS helps to bring gardening into people's lives and support gardeners of all levels and abilities; whether they are expert horticulturists or children who are planting seeds for the very first time.

Phil McCann, PR Manager for RHS Gardens, with support from gardeners at the four RHS Gardens, will be answering questions from Mumsnetters throughout this week. Whatever your query - from carrot fly to container vegetable growing, wisteria pruning to water-free gardening - Phil and the RHS team are on hand to give you advice and information.

Phil, who was previously Assistant Producer on BBC's Gardeners' World, is a trained horticulturist, a keen and knowledgeable gardener and allotment holder, a member of the RHS Vegetable Trials Committee and garden writer. Phil will be checking this thread each day and answering your questions on this thread along with his colleagues at the RHS. Final day for questions is Monday 5th July.

In return for posting a gardening question we will automatically enter you into a prize draw to win a pair of tickets to the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show next week. Each ticket will allow an adult and two children under the age of 16 into the show free of charge. Tickets will be valid on any day from Thursday 8 July to Sunday 11 July. For more information about the show visit www.rhs.org.uk/hamptoncourt.

JustineMumsnet · 29/06/2010 10:42

Dear Phil,

I was hoping to plant a New Dawn climber to go up the back wall of my house. I have left a hole (60cm x 60cm) in my patio to plant it in but there is only about 1.5 feet until you hit the water table. Will it mind having it's roots so damp? Should I go for a container and if so what size of container New Dawn would be happy in? Or is a container a non starter?
Any advice you can offer would be much appreciated.
Thank you!

JustineMumsnet · 01/07/2010 08:37

Thanks Phil - that's very helpful and I'll get cracking on planting.

JustineMumsnet · 05/07/2010 09:23

On my way to flower show this am - hoping to meet Phil McCann and get some inspiration for my mudpit of a back yard.

RachelMumsnet · 05/07/2010 13:44

Wow thanks to all of you who sent in questions. I think catinthehat has just summed things up when she says, ' I think we like this chap'. Huge thanks to Phil for joining us this week - and working so hard to answer such a vast number of questions. We'll be archiving this thread to make it a little easier to follow and we'll certainly see about getting Phil to join us later in the year for an Autumn Q and A.

A quick reminder that today is the last day for sending questions to Phil. As we said at the beginning of the thread, if you've sent in a question to Phil, you've been entered into a comp to win tickets to the RHS Hampton Court Flower show next week. We'll be announcing the winner this evening.

RachelMumsnet · 06/07/2010 13:37

Congratulations to isthatporridgeinyourhair who has won a pair of tickets (each allowing 1 adult and 2 children) for the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show. We'll be contacting you by email porridge, to let you know how to go about claiming your tickets.

Big thanks once again to all of you who joined in this Q and A and again to Phil for doing such a sterling job answering our questions. We'll be linking to an edited archive of this thread shortly.

RachelMumsnet · 07/07/2010 10:11

Great news Porridge - I emailed you yesterday asking for your details so we can get the tickets over to you - did you receive it? If not, could you please email us ([email protected]) your address/phone number and let us know which day you'd like to go along (any time for Thursday 8th - Sunday 11th July) Also can you confirm you're happy for us to pass on your details to Jennie - our contact at the RHS. Have a great day Porridge (Justine went along on Monday and said it was amazing)

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