{"id":17081,"date":"2019-02-14T20:19:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T19:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=17081"},"modified":"2019-02-14T20:20:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T19:20:46","slug":"mount-stewart-to-host-gardeners-question-time-summer-garden-party-for-the-second-year-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/02\/mount-stewart-to-host-gardeners-question-time-summer-garden-party-for-the-second-year-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Stewart to Host Gardeners\u2019 Question Time Summer Garden Party for the second year running"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/press2-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17083\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>BBC Radio 4&#8217;s\nGardeners&#8217; Question Time (GQT) is returning to the shores of Strangford Lough\non Saturday 8<sup>th<\/sup> June 2019 to hold their annual Summer Garden Party\nin the beautiful surrounds of the National Trust\u2019s Mount Stewart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets go on sale\ntoday [Friday 15<sup>th<\/sup> February] for the event at which the gurus of\ngardening, including Matthew Wilson, Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness, James Wong,\nPippa Greenwood, Matt Biggs, Matthew Pottage, Anne Swithinbank and GQT chairman\nPeter Gibbs will be in attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TheGQT\nSummer Garden Party is Radio 4\u2019s biggest annual event \u2013 including recordings of\nthe BBC&#8217;s flagship gardening radio programme. Visitors will get the chance to\nmeet the GQT panellists, put their questions to them in person, and participate\nin demonstrations and horticultural happenings across the gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to\ntalks, demos and recordings with the Gardeners\u2019 Question Time team, some of the\nhighlights will include: recordings of BBC Ulster\u2019s Gardeners&#8217; Corner,\nillustrated talks by three renowned Irish Gardeners: Helen Dillon, Daphne\nLevinge-Shackleton and Jimi Blake, guided tours, plant sales and fun for all\nthe family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Neil Porteous,\nHead of Gardens at Mount Stewart said;<\/strong>\n\u201cWe are very excited that Gardeners\u2019 Question Time have chosen to come to Mount\nStewart for their Summer Garden Party for a second year. The National Trust\nloved hosting this event last year and we hope to make this year even better,\nin this, one of the most magical of gardens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Peter Gibbs,\nChairman of BBC Radio 4\u2019s Gardeners\u2019 Question Time said; \u201c<\/strong>We\u2019re delighted to be bringing our listeners back\nto Mount Stewart, a beautiful garden which played host to the GQT Garden Party\nfor the first time in 2018. We were overwhelmed by the response last year and\nare looking forward to a triumphant return\u2026 let\u2019s just hope we\u2019re as lucky with\nthe weather this time!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full programme\nof activities as well as how to take part in the recordings will be announced\nshortly and tickets will be available by visiting Mount Stewart\u2019s website from\nFriday 15<sup>th<\/sup> February: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/mount-stewart\">https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/mount-stewart<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Access to the\nGardeners\u2019 Question Time Summer Garden Party recordings and activities will be\nticketed: Adult \u00a311.50 &amp; Child \u00a35.75. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Gardeners&#8217; Question Time (GQT) is returning to the shores of Strangford Lough on Saturday 8th June 2019 to hold their annual Summer Garden Party in the beautiful surrounds of the National Trust\u2019s Mount Stewart. Tickets go on sale today [Friday 15th February] for the event at which the gurus of gardening, including &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/02\/mount-stewart-to-host-gardeners-question-time-summer-garden-party-for-the-second-year-running\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17086,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081\/revisions\/17086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}