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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Podcasts:
Cherrie takes a winter woodland walk to enjoy crocus and snowdrops in Maurice Parkinson's garden, finds out how to propagate plants from seed and division from Anne Fitzsimons and is joined in studio by Reg Maxwell for a masterclass on growing sweet pea.
Cherrie is joined in the studio by Brendan Little and Averil to answer your gardening questions from studio 8.
This week Cherrie goes visiting to enjoy the first signs of spring, snowdrops, primroses and hellebores, just some of the many plants in two Co.Down gardens.
Cherrie is joined in studio by Jim Bradley to talk about witch hazels, Keith Crawford tackles some winter pruning and Neil Porteous explains the benefits of using mycorrhizal fungus.
This week Cherrie visits Mountstewart gardens to talk to new head gardener, Neil Porteous about winter gardening jobs and then travels to the Armagh Observatory garden with Keith Crawford.
This week Cherrie is joined in the studio by Barbara Pilcher and Brendan Little to talk about winter gardening.
Cherrie McIlwaine is joined by Averil Milligan and Reg Maxwell as they answer questions from members of Ballywalter Womensâ Institute in the Village Hall, Ballywalter.
Cherrie takes a winter walk in Castleward on the shores of Strangford Lough, in the company of gardener, Andrew Dainty and Barbara Pilcher.
Cherrie is joined in the studio to talk festive gardening with Barbara Pilcher, Averil Milligan and Jim Bradley.
Cherrie McIlwaine takes the roadshow to Sentry Hill near Newtownabbey where Barbara Pilcher and Maurice Parkinson answer gardening questions from the audience.
Cherrie McIlwaine visits an award winning garden in Co. Down, finds out which is the best Christmas tree to buy and talks winter gardening in studio with Brendan Little.
In this week's Gardeners' Corner Cherrie finds out about planting up a winter container using sustainable plants, she talks to Revd Bill MacMillen about flower festival celebrations for his 80th birthday and Omagh Gardening Society invites new members to join.
Gardener's Corner Tree Week Phone-in, presented by Cherrie McIlwaine. Jim Bradley and Keith Crawford join Cherrie to deal with listeners' queries.
This week Cherrie travels to Bangor with the Gardeners' Corner Roadshow where Brendan Little and Averil Milligan answer questions from Ballycrochan Circle of Friends.
Cherry McIlwaine visits two very different gardens, an urban front garden in Belfast and a country garden amongst the drumlins of Co. Down
