David Maxwell

Presenter of BBC Gardeners' Corner on @BBCRadioUlster. Gardening on @BBCRadio2 BBC TV news reporter for a decade. Before that @thetimes @CardiffJomec

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Find out which outside spaces inspired world famous author Jane Austen. BBC Sounds link below @ChatsworthHouse @JaneAustenHouse @JaneAustenBath @ChawtonHouse

https://t.co/2ZwdIzJoPo

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New daffodil inspired by BBC gardening show https://t.co/Z2oDEkAIKc

[BBC Radio Ulster @bbcradioulster]

🏡 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.
🎧 Listen @BBCSounds

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Join us for a gardening themed Christmas Party at Ballywalter Estate @BallywalterPark @bbcradioulster @FrancesLincoln @PimpernelPress @The_RHS https://t.co/oezbLlgRKd

[BBC Radio Foyle @BBCRadioFoyle]

🌸 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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@NI_LGA @The_RHS @Translink_NI @mea_bc @MidUlster_DC @ANBorough @KeepNIBeautiful @BestKeptAwards @ulstertatlermag Well done all

[BBC Radio Ulster @bbcradioulster]

🌸 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

[BBC Radio Ulster @bbcradioulster]

🌸 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

[BBC Radio Ulster @bbcradioulster]

🌼 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 🎧

[BBC Radio Ulster @bbcradioulster]

🌷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 🎧

[BBC Radio Ulster @bbcradioulster]

🌷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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@FosterRoisin @bbcradioulster @BelfastTrust @HoratiosGarden @AndySturgeon @BBCSounds Thanks Roisin - hope you can join us in the morning

[BBC Radio Ulster @bbcradioulster]

🏡 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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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 https://t.co/baOC8jck4U

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The wonderful @allaolkhovska who I spoke with on @bbcsounds Gardeners’ Corner last week. You can listen here about 6 mins in - https://t.co/WEmlYhSpF4

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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 - https://t.co/WEmlYhRRPw

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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 - https://t.co/WEmlYhRRPw

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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.

[BBC Radio Ulster @bbcradioulster]

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

https://t.co/sENW6PAEcS

[BBC Radio Ulster @bbcradioulster]

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.