Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow to grow prize worthy pumpkins, a mushroom mystery and bringing back the posh cloche
This week at the National Trust’s Florencecourt in County Fermanagh, beds are being prepared for winter by new head gardener Lizzie Whyman. The garde…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Bangor’s dementia friendly garden, Narcissus ‘Gardeners Corner’ arrives and the mystery of the buried egg
This week, David visits the new sensory garden in Bangor’s Ward Park which as been designed with those living with dementia in mind. One listener get…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Autumn colour arrives, what to grow now and the backyard bargain garden
With warm colours all around, Gardeners’ Corner celebrates the arrival of autumn. At the National Trust’s Rowallane Gardens, David meets head gardene…
5 months ago
Jane Austen’s gardens: A Gardeners' Corner special
Where did the world-famous author Jane Austen find inspiration for her classic novels? Two hundred and fifty years after her birth, Gardeners’ Corner…
5 months, 1 week ago
Creating a sunken garden, how to grow asparagus and the bush with a froggy smell?
In Magherafelt, David Maxwell visits Yew Cottage garden where Philip Stewart is turning his pond into a sunken garden. He hopes to turn a ‘frost pock…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
How to ripen your pears, the magic of the moving Mimosa plant, and Kumquat curiosity
This week, David Maxwell heads to County Antrim where he meets a Canadian couple gardening in the shadow of Slemish. Judith and Hugh Jackson moved to…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Greening the grey in The Burren, Adam Frost’s shrub of the month and have you got Ireland’s smallest mammal in your garden?
Carl Wright never intended to make a garden when he bought an old cottage in The Burren. Had he known he’d become smitten with plants he wouldn’t hav…
6 months ago
Grow your own fly trap, Isaac Newton’s apple and the allotments with a view
David travels to the award winning Farmyard Nurseries in Carmarthenshire where Richard Bramley shows him the large collection of fly eating Sarraceni…
6 months, 1 week ago
Getting a garden wedding ready, plants to cut down on the strimming, and Adam Frost’s shrub of the month
What do you do when your son says he forgot to booking a venue for his wedding ceremony? You offer your garden of course and call in the Gardeners’ …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
How to get golf worthy grass with The Open’s greenkeepers, Is there an Ash come back? Foraging for micro nutrients
With The Open championship taking place on County Antrim’s north coast, David Maxwell gets some top tips on grass keeping from those who prepared the…
7 months, 2 weeks ago