Diarmuid Gavin

Diarmuid Gavin is an award-winning garden designer and broadcaster known for his distinctive and contemporary designs. After studying amenity horticulture at the Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin in Dublin, he established his own garden design business.

After twice winning the Royal Dublin Society Gold medal for garden design during the nineties, he displayed at the prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 1995 and 1996. His modern vibrant city garden in 1996 caused quite a stir, and led to a career in television where he developed an individual style in contemporary garden design.

Diarmuid has worked for all the main broadcasters on both radio and television in the UK and Ireland. For 8 years, his main programme Homefront was broadcast by the BBC and he has also been presenter and garden designer on Art of the Garden, Planet Patio, Diarmuid’s Big Adventure, Dirty Old Town, Diarmuid’s Pony Kids, Blood of the Irish and Top Of The Pops!

Diarmuid recieved Irish Film and Television Awards for both the Pony Kids and Blood Of The Irish documentary series.

A lockdown series Gardening Together with Diarmuid Gavin, which was filmed in Diarmuid’s own Wicklow garden was broadcast on both RTE and BBC 1.

He has competed on Strictly Come Dancing, cooked on Masterchef and Come Dine With Me, ventured to the Arctic Circle in 71 Degrees North and participated in quiz and game shows such as Mastermind, Pointless, The Weakest Link, The Chase and House of Games.

His studio has projects throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. His varied influences range from the work of Garret Eckbo, Roberto Burle Marx, Martha Schwartz and Derek Jarman’s garden at Prospect Cottage.

He is the author of 13 books on gardening and garden design including two with Sir Terence Conran.

Diarmuid lectures on garden design around the world and has served as an ambassador for the Prince of Wales Foundation for the Built Environment.

In 2022 the United Nations appointed Diarmuid as an ambassador for their Food and Agriculture Organisation.

In 2023 he was commissioned to create a garden to commemorate the coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla and on May 24th he hosted the Royal Couple when they opened the garden to the public.

In November 2023 he was awarded an Irish Design Institute award for the Coronation Garden.