Presenter of BBC Gardeners' Corner on @BBCRadioUlster. Gardening on @BBCRadio2 BBC TV news reporter for a decade. Before that @thetimes @CardiffJomec
Joined March 2009
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27 Sep 2025
Find out which outside spaces inspired world famous author Jane Austen. BBC Sounds link below @ChatsworthHouse @JaneAustenHouse @JaneAustenBath @ChawtonHouse
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18 Apr 2025
🏡 This week on #GardenersCorner, @DavidGMaxwell visits the enchanting Delta Sensory #Gardens @carlowtourism - a 2.5 acre site on the outskirts of #Carlow town - a place for adults & young people with disabilities to experience the 5 senses outdoors.
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12 Dec 2024
Join us for a gardening themed Christmas Party at Ballywalter Estate @BallywalterPark @bbcradioulster @FrancesLincoln @PimpernelPress @The_RHS bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00267…
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8 Nov 2024
🌸 Yew Cottage Garden 🌸
This week on #Gardenerscorner @DavidGMaxwell visits Yew Cottage Garden where award winning gardener Phillip Stewart is creating a new border with #herbaceous plants and conifers.
Saturday from 9am and on @BBCSounds 🎧
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7 Aug 2024
🌸 Keeping up with the Blakes 🌸
From Jimi's to June's - last week on 'GardenersCorner @DavidGMaxwell visited Jimi Blake at @huntingbrook in #Wicklow & this week he heads over the fence to visit Jimi's sister June @JuneBlakesGarde
🎧 Listen @BBCSounds
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8 Aug 2024
🌸 Keeping up with the Blakes 🌸
From Jimi's to June's - last week on 'GardenersCorner @DavidGMaxwell visited Jimi Blake at @huntingbrook in #Wicklow & this week he heads over the fence to visit Jimi's sister June @JuneBlakesGarde
🎧 Listen @BBCSounds
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23 May 2024
🌼 RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 🌼
This week on Gardeners' Corner @DavidGMaxwell is at @The_RHS Chelsea #Flower Show where he chats with @tomstuartsmith about his gold medal winning @NGSOpenGardens Garden.
Listen on Saturday from 9am and on @BBCSounds 🎧
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18 May 2024
🌷Passing on a passion for plants🌷 This week on Gardeners’ Corner @DavidGMaxwell hears listeners’ stories and visits two gardens that have inspired millions. @GreatDixter & @barnsdalegarden which was host to @GWandShows for 17 years.
Listen on @BBCSounds 🎧
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17 May 2024
🌷Passing on a passion for plants🌷 This week on Gardeners’ Corner @DavidGMaxwell hears listeners’ stories and visits two gardens that have inspired millions. @GreatDixter & @barnsdalegarden which was host to @GWandShows for 17 years.
Listen on @BBCSounds 🎧
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2 May 2024
🏡 This week #GardenersCorner & @DavidGMaxwell head to Musgrave Park Hospital @BelfastTrust - the spinal centre has been gifted an uplifting & beautiful outdoor space & garden for patients & staff @HoratiosGarden designed by @AndySturgeon
🎧 Listen after 9am @BBCSounds
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2 Apr 2024
Once thought extinct a group of these Wollemi pine will soon be planted at the wonderful @opwireland Kilmacurragh. It’s exciting times! More from the gardens in the latest #GardenersCorner @bbcsounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001xw…
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29 Feb 2024
The wonderful @allaolkhovska who I spoke with on @bbcsounds Gardeners’ Corner last week. You can listen here about 6 mins in - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001wq…
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24 Feb 2024
Two years to the day since the war began in Ukraine - this is the remarkable story of how a garden saved a family in Kharkiv close to the frontline. It’s 7.42 in here - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001wq…
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17 Nov 2023
After winning last year delighted that Gardeners’ Corner @bbcsounds again made it to the final 4 in the UK wide @gdnmediaguild awards 2023 held today @TheSavoyLondon Congratulations to @gardens_illustrated for winning podcast of the year and to all the other winners.
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21 Sep 2023
Gardeners' Corner this week heads to Lurgan to visit the green-fingered folk of Taghneven Allotment Gardens. @davidgmaxwell has a nosey at what they're growing in their raised beds & finding out how they are supporting the community
This Saturday at 9am
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21 Sep 2023
If you nurture a garden, you feed the soul, but Fred McIlmoyle takes this to a new level! At 81, he lives with lung cancer but his spirit shines through every day he tends his stunning garden. @DavidGMaxwell spoke to both him and his nurse Michelle Doherty.
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28 Jul 2023
💮 Dreamy Dahlias from the Farm House Flower Farm. Tune in to hear @DavidGMaxwell chat with Marryn Mathis about her favourite Dahlia's blooming now in Washington state (USA) 💮
🎧 Listen to BBC Gardeners' Corner tomorrow: bbc.in/47bqV2w
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22 Jul 2023
🏡 #GardenersCorner 🏡
@DavidGMaxwell asks 3 of his regular experts to choose one of their favourite gardens. Those featured include @RHSBridgewater #Manchester, @BirrCastle in #Offaly and Greenfort garden in #Donegal
🎧 Listen back @BBCSounds bbc.in/43AdExt
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