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Gardening

Gardening

A touch of Clondeglass: Mountrath’s horticultural treasure

Paul Brady is greatly looking forward to restoring the late Dermot O’Neill’s once-flourishing 200-year-old walled garden in Co Laois
  • Ali Rochford
  • November 25, 2022
Gardening

A garden’s history seen through rose-coloured glasses

Visiting the luscious rose garden at Ardgillan in Fingal County is like taking a walk through the evolution of the most enthralling of garden flowers
  • Ali Rochford
  • July 22, 2022
Gardening

Grow as you go: how to get the most from your outdoor space, all year round

Summer is a time when our thoughts naturally turn to the garden. In this extract from their new book, Gardening Together: A Month-By-Month Guide to Getting the Most from Your Outdoor Space, Diarmuid Gavin and Paul Smyth offer some principles of planting and suggest the best herbs to cultivate
  • Diarmuid Gavinand
  • Paul Smyth
  • June 25, 2022
Gardening

Perennial pleasures of flowers on wonderful display at Bloom

This year’s Bloom in the Park flower festival celebrates the fact that, post-pandemic, gardening is now not for just a green-thumbed minority, but for everybody
  • Ali Rochford
  • May 28, 2022

Planting with purpose: This year’s garden trends prioritise biodiversity and a planet-positive approach

If 2021’s general trend was to inject pockets of joy into outdoor spaces, 2022 is the year of wild abandon in the garden.
  • Mary Cate Smith
  • April 23, 2022

Trees from above: meet the man breathing new life into garden design

Landscape architect Thijs Dolders is a firm believer that roof gardens add immeasurably to the liveability of cities
  • Ali Rochford
  • February 20, 2022

Some natural festive decorating on a grand scale

Ann Marie Durkin and her husband began restoring Coolamber in Lismacaffrey, Co Westmeath five years ago. Now she’s revamping its entire look in time for the festive season
  • Ali Rochford
  • December 19, 2021

Gardening: Making light of the long winter evenings

  • Ali Rochford
  • November 7, 2021

Everything in the garden is lovely at Sheppards sale

The annual garden statuary and furniture sale at Glantelwe Gardens in Durrow, Co Laois takes place this week
  • Ros Drinkwater
  • June 27, 2021

A life in bloom: how an off-grid pioneer and flower farmer is brightening up the Burren

Sarah Wall remembers doing her homework in the glasshouse nestled next to the tomato plants, so it’s no surprise the flower grower and ecology educator now helps others stay in touch with nature
  • Ali Rochford
  • June 27, 2021

Blooming marvellous: top tips from gardening gurus

Here’s how to make your own show garden at home, with a little help from some designers taking part in Bloom 2021
  • Ali Rochford
  • May 30, 2021

Poetry in motion: how the magic of daffodils goes well beyond early spring

Nial Watson of Ringhaddy Daffodils found his ‘profitable hobby’ of daffodil breeding quite by accident – but has become an expert and vocal advocate of the spring harbinger since
  • Ali Rochford
  • May 9, 2021

Gardening: Dahlias to die for, dahling

A group of committed dahlia growers around the country push the flowers to the limits of their performance – and here’s how you can plant the seeds for competition too
  • Ali Rochford
  • April 11, 2021

Meet the Dubliner in charge of an enchanting English jewel

Joe Whelan relishes his job as head gardener at Nymans, a National Trust property with an extensive collection of spring-flowering shrubs and trees from all over the world – and links to Birr Castle
  • Ali Rochford
  • February 21, 2021

Steps to take when you want your garden to throw shapes

Topiary has a place in every garden whatever the style, contemporary or cottage and everything in between
  • Ali Rochford
  • January 31, 2021

Gardening: Giving Kerry’s sleeping beauty new life

After years working in some of England’s most high-profile gardens, Alan Power is returning to Ireland to rejuvenate Derreen Garden on the Beara Peninsula in Co Kerry
  • Ali Rochford
  • November 22, 2020

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