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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- Artist: BBC Radio Ulster
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Podcasts:
Cherrie discovers the secrets of creating new types of daffodils in Ringhaddy.
Helen Mark is joined by Brendan Little and Jim Bradley in the Gardeners' Corner phone in studio to answer your gardening problems.
Cherrie McIlwaine takes the roadshow to Londonderry where the members of Foyle U3A put their gardening questions to the team. Keith Crawford and Brendan Little are on the panel.
This week the team turn their thoughts to getting ready for spring and summer.
It's March and our gardens are picking up the pace. With the new growth come the challenges and with us to pick up your calls in a phone-in programme are Barbara Pilcher and Phil Rollinson...
This week Cherrie McIlwaine travels to Castle Espie to see what's happening there for gardeners, calls in to Vivienne Kirk's garden in Belfast to see signs of spring in the garden pond and on to Banbridge to take in the beauty of sculpture in the FE McWilliam garden.
This week we're in Mountstewart with Phil Rollinson where the gardens are bursting with spring energy, Barbara Pilcher takes us to Lisdoonan for a few tips on coppicing and Maurice Parkinson joins us in studio with ideas for planting in dry conditions and damp shade...
Cherrie McIlwaine is joined by Averil Milligan and Keith Crawford on the Gardeners' Corner roadshow as they answer gardening questions from Gilnahirk Horticultural Society.
Cherrie McIlwaine and Barbara Pilcher visit Susan Tindall's woodland garden outside the village of Spa in Co. Down and then make their way to The Argory in Moy, where they are accompanied by Harry Patterson on the snowdrop walk under the ancient lime trees.
This week, a practical visit to Maurice and Joy Parkinson's lovely garden at Ballyrobert Conservationist Chris Packenham with some good advice on keeping your garden a healthy wildlife zone And Reg Maxwell is here to talk about preparing the fruit garden
Cherrie McIlwaine takes the roadshow to Drumbeg where the local gardening club put their questions to the experts.
This week Brendan Little and Helen Mark are looking for great plants to cover walls - Avril Milligan sings the praises of plants with winter scent - and Kaye Coates from the Woodland Trust reminds us to recycle those Christmas cards and trees...
The team look ahead to 2011 and review 2010.
Cherrie McIlwaine is joined by Keith Crawford and Jim Bradley on the Gardeners' Corner roadshow as guests of Harmony Hill Presbyterian Women in their church hall, just outside Lisburn. Seasonal gardening topics are discussed and also a look ahead to spring.
In Gardeners' Corner this week, Cherrie and Maurice Parkinson join Kathleen and Finbar O'Brien in their country garden outside Newry where the orchard is planted up and Kathleen decides on planters for the front door. John and Kaye Campbell talk about gardening for 30 years at Donegore and Phil Rollinson joins Cherrie with seasonal advice on how to protect plants from snow and ice.