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Using perennial flowers in your garden
Autumn is a good time for stocking your garden with new plants. And when it comes to planting, perennials are the proverbial “box of chocolates” – the choice is almost limitless and they are all so...
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Coppicing trees in the garden and coppice woodlands
Mature coppice in Herefordshire Whilst I was working with the BTCV (British Trust for Conservation Volunteers) a number of years ago (quite a number actually!), I completed a super training course in...
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Spring bulbs! early markers of the garden design year ahead
Russborough House, Co. Wicklow. Spring bulbs creating a beautiful and colourful floral carpet beneath mature Lime trees I was captivated by this colourful display on a weekend break to West Wicklow...
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Great autumn perennial plants – Joe Pye Weed
I was delighted to catch Carol Klein extolling the delights of the Eupatorium plant on BBC’s Gardeners’ World this week having just selected the fantastic variety Eupatorium purpureum subsp. maculatum...
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Catch Helen Dillon in Kenmare!
The fabulously friendly and go-getting Kenmare garden club are having Ireland’s premier gardener, Helen Dillon, to speak at their evening event to be held this Thursday, March 6th at 7.30pm sharp in...
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New perennial movement: wash out or taking root?
Grasses and perennials as used in my Bloom show garden for Barretstown With the Garden and Landscape Design Association’s (GLDA) seminar on the horizon this weekend, the focus is very much on the...
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Iris Beauty
Fabulous blue iris is at its peak in my garden at the moment. What a colour and it has a knock out scent too! Even in a small garden it is worth finding a spot for a strong germanica (bearded iris)...
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Sammy the Seal’s 20th Birthday Party and Plant Sale!
Discount Plant Sale as part of Wicklow’s seafood festival This weekend (Sunday the 19th July), we are opening the garden design studio as part of the Wicklow seafood festival to be held on the South...
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Little winter wonders to warm the gardener’s spirits
The brave snowdrop flower provides on of the first signs of life in the garden, as it emerges from its winter slumber. Snowdrops, Galanthus species, are part of the Amaryllidaceae family, having long...
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Good garden design can be as simple as getting the right plant in the right...
Whilst last week, we looked at some of the graceful floral forerunners of the spring, such as Snowdrop Galanthus nivalis and Winter Aconite Eranthis hyemalis, if we design our gardens carefully there...
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