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Delicate flowers: no summer garden is complete with sweet pea’s ruffled, ephemeral beauty. Photograph: Richard Johnston

Frilly but not fragile: how to grow a hardy sweet pea

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
October 13, 2018, 00:00

Sow by the end of November for bigger, stronger, longer-flowering plants

Freshly harvested courgettes sit next to nasturtiums in an Irish garden. Photo credit Richard Johnsto

End of season in the kitchen garden: tidy up and get ready for next year

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
October 6, 2018, 00:00

Prepare beds, mulch, think about planting fruit trees and hardy crops – and save seeds

The violet, drumstiock flowers of Allium ‘Globemaster’ , an early summer flowering bulbous plant. Photograph: Richard Johnston

Time to plant your sleeping beauties

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
September 29, 2018, 00:00

Fionnuala Fallon: Autumn is here, but think of spring and plant as many bulbs as you can

Wild-flower meadow. Photograph: Moment/Getty

Go wild in the garden and make a meadow

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
September 22, 2018, 00:00

You don’t need huge space to grow a meadow garden – and now is the time to sow it

Nigella seed heads drying in a glasshouse. Photograph: Richard Johnston

Gardening: It's always a pleasure to return to the joy of propagation

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
September 15, 2018, 00:00

Fionnuala Fallon: Watching a plant spring to life from a seedling or cutting is utterly magical

An armful of freshly picked summer flowering hardy annuals. Photograph: Richard Johnston

Gardening: Get next summer all sown up

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
September 8, 2018, 00:00

Fionnuala Fallon: Hardy annuals will happily endure an average cold Irish winter

Dig in: the joy of green manure in the garden

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
September 1, 2018, 00:00

Green manure is a plant crop designed to be grown and dug back into the soil to improve its structure

St Brigid’s Hospice on the Curragh in County Kildare Photo Credit Richard Johnston

A Kildare hospice garden that soothes the soul

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
August 25, 2018, 00:00

How I wish every hospice and hospital garden could be like the one at St Brigid’s Hospice

Watering cans at the ready. There are many rain barrels/water butts, which can be easily sourced from good garden centres and local authorities. Photo Credit Richard Johnston

Harvest water: the garden will thank you

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
August 18, 2018, 06:00

No amount of watering is going to be as good for plants as sweet, clean, cool Irish rain

Tomatoes ripening in an Irish glasshouse in late summer. Photograph: Richard Johnston

Prune, sow and eat tomatoes: 8 things to do in the August garden

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
August 11, 2018, 06:00

It's a busy month in the gardening year. Time to tidy the summer pots and start planting for winter greens

A Peacock butterfly feeding on the nectar-rich flowers of oregano growing in Ashtown Walled Garden in the Phoenix Park. Photograph: Richard Johnston

Let your garden be a bonanza for butterflies

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
August 4, 2018, 00:00

Late-summer flowers like marigolds, lavender, phlox and daisies are all a valuable source of food for butterflies

The Dublin garden of Olive and Alan Fitzpatrick. Photograph: Richard Johnston

How a lush and leafy Churchtown garden is weathering the drought

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
July 28, 2018, 00:00

No herbicides, fungicides or pesticides are used, not even organically-approved kinds

Many novice gardeners overlook hugely ornamental, floriferous species in favour of prettier-looking pot-grown specimens. Photograph: Getty Images

For flower power and staying power you can’t beat these summer climbers

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
July 21, 2018, 00:00

They might not look much in the garden centre but clematis and climbing roses will flower for you all summer long

View along the double herbaceous border at Altamont’s walled garden in Co Carlow, which is managed by nurseryman Robert Miller. Photograph: Richard Johnston

Down the garden path to Altamont’s walled wonder

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
July 14, 2018, 00:00

The walled garden and nursery at Altamont in Co Carlow is horticultural heaven

Freshly picked ruby chard. Photograph: Richard Johnston

How to beat the drought and keep the garden producing food

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
July 7, 2018, 00:00

Even with the hosepipe ban, you can coax a decent harvest over the coming months

27/06/2018- Home and Design .. One of the country’s best known gardeners Helen Dillon pictured in the garden of her new home in Monkstown, Co.Dublin . Photograph: Bryan O'Brien / The Irish TimesKeywords: garden flower plant planting property

First look at Helen Dillon’s new seaside garden in Monkstown

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
June 30, 2018, 06:00

After 45 years in her Ranalegh show garden, the celebrated TV gardener started from scratch at nearly 80, in a walled garden that's now open to the public

It’s tempting to water everything in sight, but you need to prioritise. Photograph: Getty

What to do in the garden this week

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
June 30, 2018, 00:00

Don’t cut that parched lawn and resist the urge to sprinkle every plant in sight

How to plant a perfect window box – and then keep it alive

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
June 23, 2018, 06:00

If you’re something of a serial killer when it comes to window box plants, then you’re probably not watering them enough

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