Light-loving lavender, dry shade and ‘the Autistic Gardener’

Join David Maxwell for the first Gardeners’ Corner of meteorological summer. This week, David finds out all there is to know about growing lavender in a northern climate from Moira Hart, who has acres of the perfumed plant in Wexford. Barbara Pilcher is planting in the dry shade of a mature beech tree in her garden and David chats to Alan Gardner from Channel 4’s ‘The Autistic Gardener’ about his own garden as late spring gives way to summer. Also on the programme, David is joined by experts Claire McNally and Maurice Parkinson to take on listeners’ questions, including suggestions for tall annuals in a shady garden, how to get a 20 year old clematis to keep flowering and what are Lofos plants and how do you care for them. You can contact the programme with your questions on gardenerscorner@bbc.co.uk