{"id":375916,"date":"2026-04-01T05:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/375916\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:34:09","slug":"diarmuid-gavin-a-celebration-of-northern-irelands-greatest-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/375916\/","title":{"rendered":"Diarmuid Gavin: A celebration of Northern Ireland\u2019s greatest gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Our expert explores the individuality and creativity behind 15 fabulous spaces\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carol Klein, Prue Leith and Diarmuid Gavin. Photo: BBC NI \/Waddell Media\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e0807e1a-e16b-49ba-aea3-7d610661249a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Carol Klein, Prue Leith and Diarmuid Gavin. Photo: BBC NI \/Waddell Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There is something compelling about stepping through a garden gate and discovering a world designed and planted by a passionate gardener on the other side. That was the premise at the heart of a new series, Greatest Gardens, which I filmed in the north of Ireland last summer and which is now being broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The gardening legend Carol Klein and I travelled the length and breadth of Northern Ireland in search of gardens that do more than simply please the eye \u2013 they tell a story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our expert explores the individuality and creativity behind 15 fabulous spaces Carol Klein, Prue Leith and Diarmuid Gavin.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65009,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-375916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-diarmuid-gavin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}