Gardeners' Corner

Gardeners' Corner Summer phone-in, presented by Cherrie McIlwaine. Barbara Pilcher and Neil Porteous answer listeners’ queries.

This week Reg Maxwell and Maurice Parkinson join Cherrie in the phone in studio.

This week Cherrie visits Hillsborough Castle gardens with Averil Milligan and their guide is Stephen Martelli.

This week Cherrie takes the roadshow to Urney in Strabane where Jim Bradley and Brendan Little answer questions from members of Urney Gardening Club.

Helen Mark is joined by Averil Milligan and Maurice Parkinson to answer listeners problems in the phone in studio.

Cherrie talks to the Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question Time team who are over recording two programmes in Glenarm Castle gardens. She also talks to Ballynahinch High School pupils and their teachers about how important gardening is in their school.

Cherrie is joined by Barbara Pilcher and Neil Porteous in the phone in studio to answer calls.

A visit to last week’s “Bloom” Festival in Dublin, growing in containers and the upcoming visit to Glenarm Castle by the BBCR4 Gardeners Question Time team.

This week Cherrie visits Darkley in Co. Armagh where Jim Bradley and Averil Milligan join her on the Gardeners’ Corner roadshow.

This week Cherrie visits the Chelsea Flower Show.

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.