In this week’s programme, David heads to the Green Spaces Community Growing Project near Warrenpoint where the volunteers are getting the garden ready for the season ahead. He finds out what attracts people to community gardening. In County Sligo, Lissadell House and gardens occupy a breath taking location. Immortalised in a poem by Yeats, work has been going on for the last 20 years to restore the gardens and plant hundreds of trees in this windswept location. Oliver Shurmann chooses Pachyphragma macrophyllum as his perennial of month. In studio, David is joined by Reg Maxwell and Claire McNally who will take questions live and provide some seasonal gardening inspiration. Contact the programme on gardenerscorner@bbc.co.uk
Why cactus are the ultimate house plant, the World Daffodil Convention and blue marigolds?
Gardeners’ Corner ‘Comes to Town’ roadshow from Ballymena
Easy ways to transform your garden this Easter
Why you should pre-sprout your courgettes, what to do if you can’t beat ground elder and the best-looking classroom you can find
Veg to sow now, celebrating Daffodils and Jekka’s 100 herbs
How to reduce the mowing and increase spring colour, the wonders of wild garlic and perennial of the month
Where to start in the garden this spring, Jimi Blake’s new borders and producing trees on an industrial scale
Gardening in a war zone and the Great Gardeners’ Corner Grow Along
How plants can help solve serious crimes, helping our hedgehogs and ‘Anya the garden fairy’
Clearing up after the storms, in search of the giant lobelia, and perennial of the month
What snow does for the garden, fixing rusty leeks and what to harvest in January
How to prune roses, plants for winter interest and preparing the garden for 2024
Gardeners’ Corner: Season by Season
Gardeners’ Corner at Christmas
Why to grow willow, the life in our soil and the gardening fundraiser
Winter wildlife, a garden for spinal injury patients and forcing daffodils
How to treat your tree ferns, caring for Christmas Cactus and orange Poinsettia?
How to care for Mahonia, protecting spring bulbs and herb of the month
Autumn highlights at Rowallane, pruning blackcurrants and getting those garlic bulbs planted
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