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The weekly gardening programme for keen gardeners, with the latest advice and news.

The weekly gardening programme for keen gardeners, with the latest advice, news and visits to gardens large and small around the province. Presented by David Maxwell.

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Gardeners' Corner: Gardeners’ Corner from RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024

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25/05/2024

Gardeners’ Corner from RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024

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Gardeners’ Corner from RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024.

Highlights from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 with David Maxwell including; designers, plant experts, celebrities and local participants.

Gardeners’ Corner visits the most talked about gardening event of the year; the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.  Presenter David Maxwell tours some of the main avenue show gardens including the gold medal winning National Garden Scheme’s garden by Tom Stuart-Smith and the Muscular Dystrophy UK garden by Ula Maria which took best in show. He also meets up with CAFRE Greenmount graduate, Anna McLaughlin, who has been working with the team who created the Stroke Association Garden.   With celebrities including Joanna Lumley, Raymond Blanc, Prue Leith, Alex Jones and of course Alan Titchmarsh; David gets a sense of Press Day at the world famous event.  Inside the Great Pavilion he speaks to experts on Delphiniums, Foxgloves and carnivorous plants and he finds Northern Irish florist Allison Hood who took silver gilt for her floristry display.  Contact the programme on gardenerscorner@bbc.co.uk
 















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