IT will be one of the biggest garden parties' held in Hampshire this year.
BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a birthday party with some 3,000 invited guests in Winchester.
Hosting the garden party this Saturday for the fourth time, will be Sparsholt College, where the programme maintains a garden.
Although the programme visits 50 venues with local gardening societies around the land each year, this particular occasion is the only one when the two million listeners can apply to get a ticket for a recording.
Tickets applications closed some weeks ago when numbers reached capacity at more than 3,000.
Two recording sessions will be held with a full panel of gardening experts including Eric Robson, Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew, John Cushnie, Bunny Guinness, Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank.
Peter Gibbs, BBC Weather Centre presenter, and sometimes programme chairman, will be conducting a straw poll survey with the crowds on temperature.
On view will be the programme's famous GQT Garden of the South and the Potting Shed.
Reflecting Gardener's Question Time's post-war beginnings, the college, through lecturer Rosie Yeomans, has created a small war-time garden complete with Anderson Shelter, chickens, rabbits and pigs.
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