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Mary Keen, children who are keen and everything in between

David Maxwell presents the weekly gardening programme including; prolific garden designer Mary Keen, a chat with Rosie Maye and school children working hard on a water bowl.

This week, David visits Rosie Maye鈥檚 garden near Slane and hears about her love of Inter-planting and underplanting.

Prolific Irish garden designer Mary Keen chats about new autobiography, Diary of a Keen Gardener, and why even with her long career and expertise, she鈥檚 always learning and experimenting as a gardener.

Pupils from Hezlett Primary School and National Trust volunteers help plant ferns and unveil a new water bowl at Downhill Demesne, Castlerock.

Gardening expert Neil Porteous joins David in studio to help caller John, who鈥檚 worried about cutting his holly tree and Pearl, who鈥檚 wondering how best to overwinter potted gladioli.

Email the programme at gardenerscorner@bbc.co.uk

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  • Sat 22 Nov 2025 09:03
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