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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 655
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
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 have chosen to live in an area famous for it’s limest…
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 Sarracenia. Greg Sachno reveals how he’s created a small ga…
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’ Corner experts for a bit of help. This week presen…
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 Royal Portrush course for the world’s top golfers…
Tickling your weeds away, Brockagh Woods wildlife garden and what to do with the kids in the garden this summer
With the summer holidays here Gardeners’ Corner gets some inspiration on what to do with the kids in the garden from Amy Kelly. Presenter David Maxwell visits Shaun Boyd’s wildlife garden at Brockag…
Gardeners’ Corner at 40
Gardeners’ Corner celebrates 40 years of the programme with a garden party at Ballyrobert Cottage Garden in County Antrim. Among those attending former presenters and contributors with fond memories …
Taking the work out of weeding, Portnoo Market Garden, and creating community in Culmore
On the day of the summer solstice, Gardeners’ Corner heads to a market garden known across the globe on social media. Barrie Quinn has created Portnoo Market Garden in Donegal over the last 5 years.…
Chef Neven Maguire’s kitchen garden, reliable roses and a last visit to Kilcoan
This week David Maxwell heads to the kitchen garden behind chef Neven Maguire’s restaurant in Blacklion, County Cavan. There his grower Kevin, produces micro-greens, herbs and edible flowers just a f…
How to keep your plants watered while you’re away, Secret Gardens of Loughgall and Adam Frost’s Shrub of the Month
With many people counting down the days to summer holidays, presenter David Maxwell gets a question from one listener who wants to know the best way to water her pots when she’s away. Also on the pro…
Gardeners’ Corner live from Bord Bia Bloom 2025
Join David Maxwell and his guests live from Bord Bia Bloom in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. He catches up with designers, Linda McKeown, James Purdy and Leonie Cornellius who all picked up medals and visits…
Gardeners’ Corner at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025
Highlights from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025. David Maxwell explores the show gardens including the gold medal winning ‘The Glasshouse Garden’ by Jo Thompson and an alpine garden for the British…
Dominic West, Nigel Slater and Fergus Garrett kick off show season and a birthday bloom for Gardeners’ Corner
At the Festival of Gardens and Nature in County Laois, David Maxwell chats to actor Dominic West, food writer and broadcaster Nigel Slater and world renowned head gardener at Great Dixter, Fergus Gar…
The garden lost under a car park, taking on a mature garden and Adam Frost’s shrub of the month
With the arrival of an early summer, David heads to Bangor where a non-gardening couple took on a beautiful mature garden 9 years ago. Janet and her husband Carl had lived in South Africa, Germany an…
What to do in the garden this Easter, grow your own soap and the sensory garden in an industrial estate?
In this Easter edition of Gardeners’ Corner, there is double the gardening inspiration and know-how as two expert guests join David Maxwell in studio. Rosie Maye will be singing the praises of home g…
The surprising secret to naturalistic planting…get the kids to do it and building community with big containers
With the sunny spring continuing, Gardeners’ Corner visits a 19th century walled garden in Maghera. Once connected to the local rectory, it is now run by the council, and it features several distinct…
How to create your own spring spectacular, lessons from life with a living wall and Adam Frost’s shrub of the month
David Maxwell heads to Hillsborough Castle and Gardens where nearly 20,000 spring bulbs are blooming. Head Gardener, Claire Woods shows off the large collection of daffodils bred in Northern Ireland …
The family adopted by bees, how to care for Camellias and what to grow under a hedge
What do you do if you’re adopted by bees? That was the Watson family’s question when the insects started making honeycomb in their compost bin. Now with two hives, mum Julietta is always thinking how…
Colour combinations at Castle Ward, are heathers back in fashion? And plantsman Jimi Blake on his latest obsession with alpines
Autumn planting is rewarded with Spring colour and at Castle Ward the formal bulb display of hyacinths and primroses is at its height. David meets gardeners Searcha Kelly and Judy Walsh who, with th…
Gardeners’ Corner Spring Special from RHS Wisley
Gardeners’ Corner celebrates spring with a visit to the world-famous RHS Garden Wisley. Covering 240 acres, it’s one of five gardens run by the Royal Horticultural Society and it attracts around one …
How to grow Dahlias, the art of stone walls and Adam Frost’s shrub of the month
With the temperatures edging up, it’s time to get those Dahlia tubers planted up for the season ahead and that’s what David Maxwell found Ann FitzSimons doing when he dropped into her country garden …