Diarmuid Gavin

Filthy Garden SOS episode 6: The team takes on an ex-military man’s old garden, left to run amok since the death of his wife, by transforming it into a welcoming and well-ordered space. The idea of helping a proud old soldier rekindle his love of gardening brought Diarmuid, Danny and Penny to Fareham in Hampshire, to discover a cluttered, chaotic garden filled with garden ornaments, an abandoned pond crater and its substitute – a plastic swimming pool of fish.     Brian and his wife Margaret took enormous pleasure in their garden for decades but when ill health took its […]

Filthy Garden SOS episode 5: Diarmuid Gavin and his team transform a garden in Leeds used as a dumpsite, planning to transform it into three interconnected but distinct garden rooms.     It was the plight of four-year-old Theo that took Diarmuid, Penny and Danny to the village of Horsforth near Leeds, where his parents had created their own garden nightmare and he was banned from going outside. Andy and Kirsten had extended their new home, but that construction work had turned the garden into a dumping ground. With busy jobs in the fire service and supporting the NHS and

Filthy Garden SOS episode 4: The team transforms an overgrown garden in London belonging to an 86-year-old who is struggling to keep up her love of gardening, and her grandson, who hopes to learn from her.     Diarmuid Gavin, Danny Clarke and Penny Lamb help spruce up unsightly backyards. Filthy Garden SOS meets desperate owners whose out of control gardens are more dumpsite or jungle than sanctuary. For those willing to work hard to fix their problem, help is at hand from Diarmuid Gavin, Danny Clarke and Penny Lamb.   Filthy Garden SOS episode 4   Diarmuid Gavin Diarmuid

Filthy Garden SOS episode 3: A couple moved shortly before their twins were born and the overgrown garden next to them was so out-of-control that they used to pretend it wasn’t theirs. Parents of twins in County Durham have always been intimidated by the sheer size of their overgrown garden, but want it to be a safe place by the time their babies start walking.     Diarmuid Gavin, Danny Clarke and Penny Lamb help spruce up unsightly backyards, beginning in Bangor. For more than two years, mother Amber and daughter Shona have lived with a mountain of waste in

Filthy Garden SOS episode 2: The crew takes on an overgrown garden on behalf of a couple who struggle to maintain it. Diarmuid Gavin and his team visit a garden in Stockport that is so overgrown it has swallowed the greenhouse, and try and make it accessible for the owner’s wheelchair     Diarmuid Gavin, Danny Clarke and Penny Lamb help spruce up unsightly backyards, beginning in Bangor. For more than two years, mother Amber and daughter Shona have lived with a mountain of waste in their back garden. Diarmuid plans to give Amber the relaxing cottage-style garden of her

Filthy Garden SOS episode 1: A mother and daughter are living with a mountain of building waste in their back garden in North Wales. Instead of a lawn there’s rubbish and rubble from their extension build.     Diarmuid Gavin, Danny Clarke and Penny Lamb help spruce up unsightly backyards, beginning in Bangor. For more than two years, mother Amber and daughter Shona have lived with a mountain of waste in their back garden. Diarmuid plans to give Amber the relaxing cottage-style garden of her childhood, while Shona and Emily will have their own contemporary hangout space.   Filthy Garden