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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In this week's programme with Cherrie McIlwaine, Barbara Pilcher advises on the tasks demanding attention this holiday weekend. There's a visit to the garden of award winning Floral Artist, the Rev. Bill McMillan and, even if your garden or balcony space is limited you can still grow your own.
Cherrie is joined by Averil Milligan and Keith Crawford answering questions from members of Crossgar Gardening Club
This week Cherrie visits Hillsborough and Mount Stewart to celebrate the two gardening festivals.
Cherrie is joined by Reg Maxwell and Brendan Little in the phone in studio to answer listeners problems.
The team visit Castlewellan Forest Park.
Cherrie is joined by Averil Milligan and Jim Bradley answering questions from the audience in St. Patrick’s Church Hall in Magheralin.
On the phone-in panel this week with Cherrie McIlwaine are Barbara Pilcher and Jim Bradley
Cherrie is joined in the studio by Jim Bradley and Barbara Pilcher to answer listeners gardening problems.
Easter flower arrangements; herbaceous borders and growing vegetables in this Easter edition of the programme presented by Cherrie McIlwaine
In Gardeners’ Corner this week, Cherrie visits urban gardens in the Titanic Quarter including an architectural garden featuring a very large area of water in the courtyard of the Metropolitan College. Also in the programme she talks to Reg Maxwell about Edwardian plants in fashion in 1912. Cherrie and Reg give suggestions for gardeners to plant their own memorial garden to Titanic. All of these plants are still in vogue now and include roses, delphiniums and fox gloves – plants from the herbaceous border which were fashionable at the time that Titanic was being built.
Cherrie is out and about this week with the roadshow, she is joined by Brendan Little and Maurice Parkinson who answer gardening questions from members of Belfast High School Old Girls’ Association.
Cherrie is joined in the phone in studio by Averil Milligan and Reg Maxwell to answer gardening problems.
This week Cherrie takes a spring walk at Mountstewart, hears from leading garden desginer Andy Sturgeon and Keith Crawford talks spring cleaning.
Cherrie is joined by Barbara Pilcher and Jim Bradley on the roadshow where they answer questions from Hillsborough Horticultural Society in the Village Centre, Hillsborough.
Cherrie visits the beautiful gardens of Mount Usher in Co. Wicklow.
