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Sixteen great books for gardeners this Christmas

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
December 15, 2018, 00:00

This year’s fine crop tackles everything from wartime gardens to a guide to propagation

Christmas wreath: everything to make it comes from the wild or from the garden. Photograph: Richard Johnston

Weave a seasonal spell: how to make a magical Christmas wreath

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
December 8, 2018, 00:00

Keep it natural with local, simple and seasonal willow, twigs and berried branches

David Austin rose ‘Strawberry Hill’ from Mr Middleton – €22

Giving to a gardener? Here's 35 great gifts for Christmas

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
December 1, 2018, 00:00

Trees to plant, gloves to wear, cards to write trowels to dig, seeds to sow and a pad to rest

Houseplants decoratively displayed are a favourite with Instagrammers

It’s the Seventies all over again as houseplants grow on us

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
November 24, 2018, 00:00

Thank Instagram for giving us endless images of spider plants, air plants and aspidistras dangling elegantly from vintage coat-racks or macrame pot-hangers

A Japanese acer in brilliant autumn colour in Heen Dillon’s old garden. Photograph: Richard Johnston

Five good value, fuss-free trees for small gardens

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
November 17, 2018, 00:00

November marks the start of bare-root season making it a good time to plant a deciduous tree

The Mottisfont glasshouse, one of the Alitex National Trust range

The great indoors: how to pick the best glasshouse for your garden

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
November 10, 2018, 01:00

Plants can grow with lush abandon all winter long in a good greenhouse

Freshly harvested Irish plums. Photo: Richard Johnston

The best fruit trees for a small garden

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
November 3, 2018, 00:00

Who has the space to grow apples, plums, pears, medlars or quinces? Anyone with a pocket-sized patch, that’s who

Seamus O’Brien, head gardener at National Botanic Gardens at Kilmacurragh – and now author

High in the Himalayas, an Irish plant-hunter’s paradise

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
October 27, 2018, 00:00

Some of loveliest plant species in Irish gardens hail from the tiny Indian state of Sikkim

Paperwhites: their tall, deeply perfumed, multi-headed ghostly white flowers can fill a room with their scent. Photograph: Mr Middleton

This week in the garden: Plan and plant now for the festive season

Gardens
Fionnuala Fallon
October 20, 2018, 00:00

With a little forward planning, you can have a beautiful addition to the Christmas table or a lovely gift for the flower-lover in your life

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

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