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.

What to do in the garden this Easter, grow your own soap and the sensory garden in an industrial estate?
Apr 19, 2025 – 56:31
The surprising secret to naturalistic planting…get the kids to do it and building community with big containers
Apr 12, 2025 – 56:47
How to create your own spring spectacular, lessons from life with a living wall and Adam Frost’s shrub of the month
Apr 5, 2025 – 56:41
The family adopted by bees, how to care for Camellias and what to grow under a hedge
Mar 29, 2025 – 56:49
Colour combinations at Castle Ward, are heathers back in fashion? And plantsman Jimi Blake on his latest obsession with alpines
Mar 22, 2025 – 56:29
Gardeners’ Corner Spring Special from RHS Wisley
Mar 15, 2025 – 55:28
How to grow Dahlias, the art of stone walls and Adam Frost’s shrub of the month
Mar 8, 2025 – 56:37
Could you have hidden treasure in your garden? Why alpines are the ultimate no-fuss plants and early spring with Jimi Blake
Mar 1, 2025 – 56:34
Storm-proof trees, winter gems at Ardgillan Castle and getting your Amaryllis to flower again
Feb 22, 2025 – 56:44
Growing soft fruit without a garden, getting going with sweet peas, tomatoes and chillies, Adam Frost’s shrub of the month
Feb 15, 2025 – 56:39
Why you should eat the rainbow, how to grow hellebores and easy hedging
Feb 8, 2025 – 56:37
Storm Éowyn, from rugby to raking, and searching for special snowdrops
Feb 1, 2025 – 56:54
How to have happy houseplants, pruning gooseberries and apples and taking the work out of gardening
Jan 25, 2025 – 56:33
What to grow for winter wonder, summer down under and the tidy grow tunnel that gets vacuumed?
Jan 18, 2025 – 56:34
What to do in the garden when the temperature drops, Adam Frost’s Shrub of the Month and dealing with invasive Bamboo
Jan 11, 2025 – 56:31
Season by Season with Gardeners’ Corner
Jan 1, 2025 – 56:37
Gardeners’ Corner at Christmas
Dec 21, 2024 – 56:08
Looking after your Christmas Tree, Perfect Pelargoniums at the Chelsea Physic Garden and Winter garden wildlife
Dec 14, 2024 – 56:45
The best winter veg for small containers, bulbs lasagnes and Mount Stewart looks to the future
Nov 30, 2024 – 56:29
Gardeners’ Corner Autumn Highlights
Nov 23, 2024 – 56:45
Trees for small spaces, the magic of Medlars and the road to Chelsea begins
Nov 16, 2024 – 56:36
How to make leafmould? Tulip time and a visit to Trinity College Botanic Gardens
Nov 9, 2024 – 56:41
The lost gardens of Castlewellan? Blankets for bananas in Glenarm and how to do hardwood cuttings
Nov 2, 2024 – 56:52
Are chrysanthemums back in fashion? Greenhouse growing over winter and Derry Watkins’ special plants
Oct 26, 2024 – 56:41
Gardeners’ World presenter Adam Frost on his new garden and autumn trees at Brook Hall
Oct 19, 2024 – 56:57
Gardeners’ Corner Roadshow from Coleraine
Oct 12, 2024 – 56:04
Sarah Raven at Perch Hill and Tom Stuart-Smith at the Serge Hill Project
Oct 5, 2024 – 56:12
The best bedding to plant now, irresistible irises and finding Fungi
Sep 28, 2024 – 56:12
How to preserve your summer veg, an exotic oasis in Howth and perennial of the month
Sep 21, 2024 – 55:19
Growing and using blackberries, a backyard botanics and broadcasting about gardening over the last 100 years
Sep 14, 2024 – 56:14
Perfect plants for pots, the Quiet Garden and a remarkable life with trees
Sep 7, 2024 – 55:49
Gardening with dogs, Ardán garden in Howth and spotty apple harvests
Aug 31, 2024 – 56:04
Rabbit Proof Plants, June Blake on using red in the garden and National Allotment Week
Aug 10, 2024 – 56:04
How to have the perfect lawn, using farm troughs in the garden and Jimi Blake’s summer borders
Aug 3, 2024 – 54:14
Where are the bees this summer? Must have, no fuss, long flowering performers and making gardening child’s play
Jul 27, 2024 – 56:07
Kylemore Abbey: Connemara’s answer to Kew Gardens and Growing 1000 edible plants
Jul 13, 2024 – 56:06
20/07/2024
Jul 11, 2024 – 56:03
Creating cover, keeping the courgettes coming, and compost with Charles Dowding
Jul 6, 2024 – 56:42
Gardeners’ Corner Special: Garden Inspirations
Jul 3, 2024 – 55:55
The best roses for June and what to grow with them, 375 gardens to visit, and creating a garden for all life’s seasons
Jun 29, 2024 – 56:20
Gardeners’ Corner ‘Comes to Town’ roadshow from Enniskillen
Jun 22, 2024 – 56:10
How to grow an orchard on your patio, Bog Meadows wildlife garden and the taste of summer
Jun 15, 2024 – 56:36
How to stop the slugs, restricting running raspberries and Women’s TEC
Jun 8, 2024 – 55:59
Gardeners’ Corner live from Bord Bia Bloom
Jun 1, 2024 – 56:00
Gardeners’ Corner from RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024
May 25, 2024 – 56:00
Plants that take you from spring to summer, Lambeth palace garden and ‘Mervyn’ the robot mower
May 11, 2024 – 56:41
Sarah Raven’s passion for pots, Horatio’s Garden Belfast and No Mow May
May 4, 2024 – 55:57
Why cactus are the ultimate house plant, the World Daffodil Convention and blue marigolds?
Apr 27, 2024 – 55:57
Gardeners’ Corner ‘Comes to Town’ roadshow from Ballymena
Apr 13, 2024 – 55:11
Easy ways to transform your garden this Easter
Mar 30, 2024 – 56:44

Recent Reviews

Janis Staskowski

Redmond, Washington

I enjoy every show & learn so much!
Salad days.

Love it!

Good listening and great advice.
f2435

A favorite

One of my very favorite gardening podcasts. So thankful for the varied, kind personalities, the acceptance and willingness to learn along the way, and the humor and banter among all the hosts. I’m grateful to be able to listen from Connecticut in the US. Many thanks!
joandietitian

Where’s Monty Don?

Listening to this podcast is like listening to old men gossip, there are few facts and old, scientifically disproven info prevails. I’d encourage you to get new blood, permaculture designers, horticultural professionals, for example, people who don’t promote beer for slugs, growing only showy non-natives. It’s time all home gardeners imbraced helping the pollinators, wildlife and adapting to the climate crisis.
Lifecake devotee

What a treat

I live in San Francisco a world away from Ireland but find Gardner’s Corner enormously helpful as well as delightfully entertaining. I look forward to new episodes every week - I never miss a show. Funny, sweet, educational, inspiring… what a wonderful show. You don’t have to love gardening to enjoy this show (but it helps). Give a listen and find out for yourself!
LinaTheQueen

Pleasant.

Love the info, good show, nice to think of greener things while at work. I do wish David didn’t talk over folks so often- bit stressful.
Texjen

From the desert

I live in the desert but love listening to how people garden in Ireland. And David Maxwell runs the show so well.
Ken Phelp's bat

Great podcast

I listen from here in the USA. This is my favorite gardening podcast. I could listen to David Maxwell talk all day.
VA Jane

A weekly treat

Always looking forward to the next episode. Thank you for such wonderful gardening hints.
LrngToFly

What happened to Cherrie McIlwaine?

The previous host seems to have fallen off the face of the planet. A google search came up with nothing. She was on the BBC until the end of 2016. Hopefully she is enjoying an unforced retirement! I listened to her final podcast and there was no mention of her leaving. A listener from the US...
jennifair99

Helpful, lovely and inspiring

I've learned so much about gardening from this show, and the information is presented in a charming and beautiful way. It's an all-around lovely podcast!
greypatches

Wonderful Advice for Gardeners!

This show covers many different subjects all relating to gardening and I love to listen to it at any time of the year, be it in the winter planning my garden for the spring or in the middle of the growing season. Recommend to anyone!
Concerned About the World

Great with one exception

There are three hosts on this show and two are great. Unfortunately, one (Jim?) is very difficult to understand. He speaks too low, almost mumbling. Whenever someone calls in I dread that he should answer because I have to strain to hear what he is saying.
MikePerry

1st class gardening advice from the mother-land

Great host, great content, all delivered via the Emerald Isle :)