With daylight at a premium the work goes on in two stand-out gardens visited by Gardeners’ Corner this week. At Musgrave Park Hospital in South Belfast, the charity Horatio’s Garden is creating a garden for spinal injury patients designed by Chelsea gold medal winning designer Andy Sturgeon. Helen Mark meets the new head gardener there and chats to Andy about this ‘high maintenance’ space. At Glenarm Castle the Walled Garden has recently been named Historic Houses 2023 Garden of the Year. The gardeners there are forcing daffodils for flowers at Christmas, sowing seeds and overhauling the hot border. In studio David is joined by gardener Claire McNally and wildlife expert Katy Bell who will be offering some advice on wildlife in the winter garden. 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
Last-minute rose pruning made easy, Lissadell House, and perennial of the month
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
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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