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
Grow your own wedding flowers, living the ‘Good’ life and crunch time for two apple trees.
Perennials from seed, Tyrone wildflowers and sensational snowdrops
Show-off succulents, mossy lawns and shrubs for scent
Growing tea, revitalising your soil and gardening the mind
Coffee grounds, sweet pea and Matthew Wilson
Misbehaving squirrels, yacon and Christine Walkden
Snowdrops, whiskey barrels and greenfinches
Gardeners’ Corner at Christmas
Poinsettia, houseplants and olives
Climbing roses, winter veg and Matt Biggs
Christmas Trees, Winter Harvests and Lighting Up the Garden
Growing saffron, winter bird care and Bunny Guinness
Seeds of hope from Hiroshima, Monty Don and compost worms
Tulips with Sarah Raven, air plants and lawn care
Winter potting in Ardboe, tackling vigorous bamboo at Mount Stewart and a mediterranean haven in East Belfast
BBC Radio Ulster Gardeners’ Corner team revisit some Autumn Garden Visits.
Zero fuss plants, native hedges and green manures
Autumn colour, Horatio’s Garden and leaping lizard
Planting trees in hedgerows, Alan Power and Nerines
Designing a cosy garden space to meet friends and family, herbs for the autumn and Charles Dowding
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