Join David Maxwell and the gardening gang for a festive fireside chat at Kilcoan Gardens in Islandmagee. With home grown and handmade seasonal treats, four experts brave the winter weather for a fun filled Christmas get together. Ann Fitzsimmons and Mary Doris use fresh garden herbs and Christmas leftovers for a fuss free holiday meal, while Brendan Little and Cherry Townsend tour the gardens picking foliage for some last minute Christmas decoration. Also on the programme; Una Quinn introduces us to a Sweet Chestnut tree on the north coast which may have found its way to Castlerock because of the Spanish Armada, Amy Kelly on gifts to buy the gardener in your life and no prizes for guessing Jekka McVicar’s herb of the month for December!
Gardeners’ Corner Christmas special
Gardeners' Corner visits Cornwall
04/12/2021
Year-round herbs, pruning blackcurrants and wrapping up for winter
Hedges, SERC wellbeing garden and Glenarm’s new woodland walk
Growing bananas in Belfast? Planting spring bulbs in pots and how to take root cuttings
Gardening for climate change, making a wormery and the wonder of trees
Meet the Asters, Castlewellan’s autumn gold and a trip to Kiltumper
How to grow perfect pumpkins, bulb planting at Florence Court and ever heard of banana mint?
Green manure, rose rock and storing the autumn glut
Buying trees with the spend local card, autumn planting and annual edible flowers.
Glenveagh Castle gardens, Cluain na dTor and Brendan Little’s Kerrykeel courtyard
Gardening for medicine, memorial and marvel.
Late summer colour, Irish roses and Hunting Brook
Bee friendly gardens, Hillsborough honey and temperamental tomatoes
National allotments week, Hugelkultur and bodging with Bob
Visiting a vineyard, wilderness planting and a journalist turned social gardener
Health giving herbs, hybrid berries and raspberry crumble?
Bankside beauty, daylilies and drought
An urban oasis, jobs for July and a garden you don't need to water?
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