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Online Garden Designs looks to bloom and grow via partner network

The Co Kildare company is developing a contractor network, focusing on expansion in Dublin, Cork and the UK

Grab the gear to get that garden party started

Transform your outdoor space into a sanctuary of comfort and fun – summer 2023 is the season of the hi-tech, technicolour garden party, writes Anna Shelswell-White

Diarmuid Gavin on sea swimming, putting down roots and designing a garden fit for a king

The stunning Coronation Garden in the North, built to celebrate the crowning of Britain’s King Charles, is just one of many exciting projects the renowned garden designer is digging into, many of which are now closer to home

Room with a view – turning your garden space into the great outdoors

A designer’s eye is a great asset when it comes to bringing an outdoor space from drab to dramatic – particularly if you plan to host guests. Here, four garden and landscape designers share their thoughts on creating a functional and aesthetically pleasing area in which to entertain

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Gardening: Making light of the long winter evenings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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