Gardeners' Corner
Summary: Get all the gardening advice you need for every month of the year from the experts in our Gardeners’ Corner download. Presenter Cherrie McIlwaine and her panel of experts answer your queries from their many years of experience. This podcast is packed with gardening hints and tips in a compact thirty minute episode.
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This week Cherrie visits Hillsborough for the annual Garden Festival and also a community garden on the Shore Road where fruit and vegetables are at the top of the community’s wish list.
Cherrie is joined in the studio by Barbara Pilcher and Averil Milligan to answer listeners’ gardening questions.
Cherrie visits Glenarm in Co. Antrim and Helen visits Donegal in this week’s Gardeners’ Corner.
Cherrie takes the roadshow to Bangor where the Womens Institutes there put their questions to Barbara Pilcher and Brendan Little.
This week Cherrie visits Bangor walled garden, Keith Crawford plants a specimen tree and the beauty of alpines are revealed in Gardeners’ Corner.
Cherrie is joined in the studio by Reg Maxwell and Averil Milligan to answer your questions.
This week Cherrie visits Clandeboye Estate with Reg Maxwell and they are guided around the gardens by Lady Dufferin and head gardener Fergus Thompson.
This week Cherrie looks at flowers associated with Easter and unusual daffodils for the garden. She also finds out what vegetables are doing well in the greenhouse, how to plant up tubs and baskets for spring and what effect the snow has had on garden plants.
Cherrie has more gardening advice despite the weather, visiting a nursery school for a tree planting lesson, Helen Mark talks vegetables with Brendan Little and Ann Fitzsimons on lesser known bulbs for spring.
Cherrie and the roadshow team visit St. Mary’s Parish Church in Comber, Co. Down for this week’s programme.
This week Cherrie visits Keith Crawford's garden which is having a complete makeover. Helen Mark visits Brendan Little to talk vegetables and news of the Garden Show in Hillsborough.
This week Cherrie is in the phone in studio with Averil Milligan and Brendan Little.
This week Cherrie visits a beautiful woodland garden outside Cairncastle in Co. Antrim.
Cherrie is joined on the roadshow by Barbara Pilcher and Neil Porteous as the guests of the Belles of Belmont who put their gardening questions to the panel in this week’s Gardeners’ Corner.
Cherrie is joined in the studio by Reg Maxwell and Jim Bradley to answer listeners gardening questions.
