Gardeners' Corner · BBC Radio Ulster

Gardeners’ Corner live from Bord Bia Bloom 2025

·56 min·5 clips
James Purdy turns discarded bottles into stunning garden sculptures at his gold medal-winning show garden.
Gardener's Corner broadcasts live from Bord Bia Bloom 2025, Ireland's largest gardening festival in Dublin's Phoenix Park. Host David Maxwell tours show gardens, interviews designers like James Purdy and Leonie Cornelius, and explores plant sales, sustainability themes, and community projects, offering practical tips and inspiration for home gardeners.

As heard by us

A grounded Bloom 2025 conversation about plant choices, garden design, and the energy of the live show.

This episode treats Bloom 2025 in Dublin's Phoenix Park as a working garden rather than a spectacle. It moves from the show gardens to the plant choices, then to the visitors arriving with trolleys and the small details that make a space feel finished instead of merely planted.

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Why you'd press play

Live from Bloom 2025, this is a companionable festival hour full of planting ideas and garden design detail.

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