Gardeners' Corner

The weekly gardening programme for keen gardeners, with the latest advice, news and visits to gardens large and small around the province. Presented by David Maxwell.

Radio Ulster,355 episodes

Episodes

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What to do in the garden this Easter, grow your own soap and the sensory garden in an industrial estate?
Easter gardening inspiration with David Maxwell and guests.
19 Apr 2025,57 mins
The surprising secret to naturalistic planting…get the kids to do it and building community with big containers
Gardening inspiration for spring with David Maxwell and guests.
12 Apr 2025,57 mins
How to create your own spring spectacular, lessons from life with a living wall and Adam Frost’s shrub of the month
Gardening inspiration for spring with David Maxwell and guests.
05 Apr 2025,57 mins
The family adopted by bees, how to care for Camellias and what to grow under a hedge
Gardening inspiration for spring with David Maxwell and guests.
29 Mar 2025,56 mins
Colour combinations at Castle Ward, are heathers back in fashion? And plantsman Jimi Blake on his latest obsession with alpines
Gardening inspiration for spring with David Maxwell and guests.
22 Mar 2025,56 mins
Gardeners’ Corner Spring Special from RHS Wisley
Gardening inspiration for spring from RHS Wisley with David Maxwell.
15 Mar 2025,55 mins
How to grow Dahlias, the art of stone walls and Adam Frost’s shrub of the month
Gardening inspiration for spring with David Maxwell and guests.
08 Mar 2025,56 mins
Could you have hidden treasure in your garden? Why alpines are the ultimate no-fuss plants and early spring with Jimi Blake
Gardening inspiration for spring with David Maxwell and guests.
01 Mar 2025,56 mins
Storm-proof trees, winter gems at Ardgillan Castle and getting your Amaryllis to flower again
Gardening inspiration for winter with David Maxwell and guests.
22 Feb 2025,56 mins
Growing soft fruit without a garden, getting going with sweet peas, tomatoes and chillies, Adam Frost’s shrub of the month
Gardening inspiration for winter with David Maxwell and guests.
15 Feb 2025,57 mins
Why you should eat the rainbow, how to grow hellebores and easy hedging
Gardening inspiration for winter with David Maxwell and guests.
08 Feb 2025,56 mins
Storm Éowyn, from rugby to raking, and searching for special snowdrops
Gardening inspiration for winter with David Maxwell and guests.
01 Feb 2025,56 mins
How to have happy houseplants, pruning gooseberries and apples and taking the work out of gardening
Gardening inspiration for winter with David Maxwell and guests.
25 Jan 2025,56 mins
What to grow for winter wonder, summer down under and the tidy grow tunnel that gets vacuumed?
Gardening inspiration for winter with David Maxwell and guests.
18 Jan 2025,56 mins
What to do in the garden when the temperature drops, Adam Frost’s Shrub of the Month and dealing with invasive Bamboo
Gardening inspiration for winter with David Maxwell and guests.
11 Jan 2025,56 mins
Season by Season with Gardeners’ Corner
David Maxwell journeys through the four seasons in 12 months of Gardeners’ Corner.
04 Jan 2025,56 mins
Gardeners’ Corner at Christmas
Christmas gardening chat around a festive fire with David Maxwell.
21 Dec 2024,56 mins
Looking after your Christmas Tree, Perfect Pelargoniums at the Chelsea Physic Garden and Winter garden wildlife
Gardening inspiration for winter with David Maxwell and guests.
14 Dec 2024,56 mins
The best winter veg for small containers, bulbs lasagnes and Mount Stewart looks to the future
Gardening inspiration for autumn with David Maxwell and guests.
30 Nov 2024,56 mins
Gardeners’ Corner Autumn Highlights
Gardening inspiration for autumn with David Maxwell and guests.
23 Nov 2024,56 mins
Trees for small spaces, the magic of Medlars and the road to Chelsea begins
Gardening inspiration for autumn with David Maxwell and guests.
16 Nov 2024,56 mins
How to make leafmould? Tulip time and a visit to Trinity College Botanic Gardens
Gardening inspiration for autumn with David Maxwell.
09 Nov 2024,56 mins
The lost gardens of Castlewellan? Blankets for bananas in Glenarm and how to do hardwood cuttings
Gardening inspiration for autumn with David Maxwell and his expert guests.
02 Nov 2024,56 mins
Are chrysanthemums back in fashion? Greenhouse growing over winter and Derry Watkins’ special plants
Gardening inspiration for autumn with David Maxwell and guests.
26 Oct 2024,56 mins
Gardeners’ World presenter Adam Frost on his new garden and autumn trees at Brook Hall
Gardening inspiration for autumn with David Maxwell and his expert guests.
19 Oct 2024,56 mins
Gardeners’ Corner Roadshow from Coleraine
Gardeners’ Corner Roadshow from Coleraine.
12 Oct 2024,56 mins
Sarah Raven at Perch Hill and Tom Stuart-Smith at the Serge Hill Project
David Maxwell visits Sarah Raven at Perch Hill and Tom Stuart-Smith at Serge Hill.
05 Oct 2024,56 mins
The best bedding to plant now, irresistible irises and finding Fungi
Autumn gardening inspiration with David Maxwell and his expert guests.
28 Sep 2024,56 mins
How to preserve your summer veg, an exotic oasis in Howth and perennial of the month
Gardening inspiration for autumn with David Maxwell and his expert guests.
21 Sep 2024,55 mins
Growing and using blackberries, a backyard botanics and broadcasting about gardening over the last 100 years
Gardening inspiration for autumn with David Maxwell and his expert guests.
14 Sep 2024,56 mins