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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Gardening Together with Diarmuid Gavin episode 6: Diarmuid helps design a garden for Rachel Kelly in Drumbo, County Down, who has a an eyesore in the garden she wants to forget. He also offers advice for gardeners with a bit of help from plant experts Paul Smyth and Colm O’Driscoll and reveals whether a huge greenhouse made of reclaimed materials
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Gardening Together with Diarmuid Gavin episode 5: This week, Diarmuid helps design a garden for Shane Auliffe in County Kerry, who wants to see a formal, grand garden from his window. He offers advice for gardeners with a bit of help from Mount Stewart head gardener Neil Porteous and shows viewers how to transform a terrace area as he makes
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Gardening Together with Diarmuid Gavin episode 4: This week he helps design a garden for Nichola McGregor in County Antrim, who wants to bring a bit of France to her garden in memory of her late partner. He also offers advice for gardeners with a bit of help from exotic plant expert Conrad McCormick and shows us how to rejuvenate
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Gardening Together with Diarmuid Gavin episode 3: This week he helps design a garden for the Hanway family in Howth, who have a shedload of ideas for their garden but no firm plan. For those wanting to live the good life themselves, Diarmuid gets advice from chef Rachel Allen, who helps him fulfil his dream of keeping chickens in the
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