Presenter of BBC Gardeners' Corner on @BBCRadioUlster. Gardening on @BBCRadio2 BBC TV news reporter for a decade. Before that @thetimes @CardiffJomec
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joined March 2009
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Find out which outside spaces inspired world famous author Jane Austen. BBC Sounds link below @ChatsworthHouse @JaneAustenHouse @JaneAustenBath @ChawtonHouse
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002k3…
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New daffodil inspired by BBC gardening show bbc.com/news/articles/ce801p…
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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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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… – at Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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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 - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001wq…
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…
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.
Coronation flowers: Shane Connolly's floral arrangement fit for a king bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-i…
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What a joy to be at Fairview Primary School in Ballyclare this morning in their remarkable environmental garden - you can listen to the programme again here - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001kg… and you can find more school gardening here bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0… @bbcni @FairviewFPS
New gardening programme with schools from across NI - watch it here - bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0… - @keepnorthernirelandbeautiful @educationauthority @emmamajury @davidgmaxwell @rspb_ni @ulsterwildlife
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In studio this morning with @irishrainforest and Brendan Little - also visiting @powerscourt_estate - listen again to #GardenersCorner on @bbcsounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jk…
Delighted that #GardenersCorner has won Radio Broadcast of the Year at the @GdnMediaGuild awards @TheSavoyLondon today for our special programme on Victorian gardener William Robinson. Listen again here - bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016q5… @GravetyeManor #gmgawards
It’s #bookweekni and @diarmuidgavin and I have been chatting about the importance of reading @bbcni - you can watch it here bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0… and he’ll be joining me live on @bbcradioulster #GardenersCorner this morning at 9am @librariesni
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Join me for a walk with @mccarthy_nic_ at Oxford Island - do you know why it’s called an island? @mccarthy_nic_ bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0chkdw…
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