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Ripe apples ready for harvesting. Photograph: iStock Season of mellow fruitfulness: grow your own fruit
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • October 17, 2020, 06:00

October/November are the ideal months to start growing apples, pears and plums

Flowers for cutting from the border. Photograph: Taryn Elledge-Penner of Quartier Collective Kilruddery House's walled garden wonder revived
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • October 10, 2020, 06:00

Another seasonal bounty of vegetables and flowers from its Victorian kitchen garden

Bex Partridge, from the new book Everlastings. Photograph: Laura Edwards Dried flowers enjoy a revival, thanks to Instagram
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • October 3, 2020, 06:00

Insta images of artful bouquets from dried foliage and flowers changing a dusty image

Harvested garlic. Photograph: Getty Move over potatoes – it’s time to plant onions, garlic and rhubarb
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • September 26, 2020, 06:00

Use potato beds to plant for spring colour and summer flavour

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The annual autumn rite of bulb planting is an important period in the gardener’s calendar Plant bulbs now to nourish bees and bring spring joy
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • September 19, 2020, 06:00

In gardening, September is the month of reckonings and new beginnings

Oliver and Liat Schurmann, owners of Mount Venus Nursery, Tibradden. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw 'You can produce so much from so little, once you have the know-how'
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • September 12, 2020, 06:00

How Dublin's Mount Venus Nursery survived and even thrived during the lockdown

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Ajuga reptans are suited to heavy, claggy soil. Photograph: iStock How to make the most of your wet weather garden
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • September 5, 2020, 06:00

Our naturally damp soil can often become waterlogged, but there are solutions at hand

Photograph: Richard Johnston ‘You could stick a broom handle in the Kerry ground and it would grow’
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • August 29, 2020, 06:00

American gardeners in Kerry: ‘When you make room for it, nature always finds you’

Adam Bermingham with his daughters Erica and Niamh at their home in Churchtown. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/The Irish Times A scientist’s experimental garden with its very own weather station
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • August 22, 2020, 06:00

Adam Bermingham’s approach to gardening has always been endearingly boffinish

Mark Grehan and his French bulldog, Finn, in his garden at his apartment in Cork Street, Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan ‘My city roof terrace saved me in lockdown’
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • August 15, 2020, 06:00

My outdoor room: Mark Grehan, florist and garden designer

For those with a small space, one challenge is often to try to make the area feel bigger. Photograph: iStock Six tips to make the most of your garden space
  • Gardens
  • Denise O'Connor
  • August 14, 2020, 06:00

Sort It: Plan the space to fulfil your needs well into the future, not just for the here and now

Valerie Duffy in her city garden in Rathmines. Photograph: Damien Eagers A downsizer's garden that makes the most of a shady situation
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • August 8, 2020, 06:00

Me and My Garden: Valerie Duffy’s city plot

Ross Flanagan and his garden in Harold’s Cross. Photograph: Alan Betson Joyful, jungly, slightly wacky: a career changer’s packed city garden
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • August 1, 2020, 06:00

Me and My Garden: Ross Flanagan

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Polytunnels are valuable pieces of real estate where every square metre of precious growing space should - ideally - be used throughout the year. Photograph: Getty Images Polytunnel gardening could be your great escape
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • July 25, 2020, 00:00

On rainy days a polytunnel offers warmth, seclusion and a leafy refuge

Older gardens are more likely to harbour certain common plant diseases. Garden out of control? Here's how to tame it
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • July 18, 2020, 00:00

Mature gardens may have lots of charm but need lots of TLC to get them back into shape

Des Doyle in the gravel gardens of Lavistown House. Photograph: Richard Johnston This jewel of a gravel garden needs weeding just once a year
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • July 11, 2020, 09:03

Des Doyle’s unique creation is ultra low-maintenance but also dynamic and very beautiful

Delphiniums in the garden. Photograph: Getty Let delphiniums bring your garden to new heights
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • July 4, 2020, 00:00

Dowdeswell’s delphiniums are the ones to pick – a hybrid all the way from New Zealand

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Anenomes in the garden. Photograph: Getty Summer drought, winter floods? These plants will survive it all
  • Gardens
  • Fionnuala Fallon
  • June 27, 2020, 00:00

Expert gardeners select the plants that have outperformed the rest in weather extremes

Property News

Property providers anticipate busy lockdown amid strong demand
Shop conversion and government buildings win Irish architecture awards
What sold for €540k-ish in south Dublin, north Wicklow and Cork city
Swift sale of writer's former Coliemore home for €3million
Interest in coastal cottages doubles as online property searches surge 50%

Home Refurb - Video Series

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Is it possible for you to see that your suister needs help, even if you are not the person that this should come from? Photograph: iStock ‘My sister preys on people’s weaknesses, and causes nothing but trouble’
There is complete meltdowns if we try to broach the subject of taking the pull-ups away. Photograph: iStock My four-year-old is fearful of sitting on the toilet
The last time I saw him, I knew he had met someone else. Photograph: Getty I can’t stop thinking about my childhood crush who rejected me

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1 ‘You guys are amazing’: Matt Damon’s message of support to Temple Street children, families and staff
2 Fresh, locally sourced food and incredible bakes delivered to your door from Cork’s Good Day Deli Lockdown meals: 50 great Irish restaurant food boxes to go
3 No 3 Woods Way, Mount Eden Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 Boxing clever in Donnybrook for €825k
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5 44 Fitzwilliam Square Dublin 2 Developer’s impeccably restored Fitzwilliam Square Georgian for €3.5m
6 There are some simple behavioural strategies, such as: don’t just meet for coffee, walk with coffee. Photograph: Getty Much of what we think about Covid-19 is wrong. We need to change the conversation
7 People living alone with the support of a carer may form a support bubble with one other household. Photograph: iStock Covid-19 Level 5 support bubbles: Everything you need to know
8 These lemon cheesecake bars are creamy and fluffy, with the addition of the sharp citrus notes. Photograph: Harry Weir Photography These lemon cheesecake bars are a little slice of sunshine
9 Brigid O’Dea: Being a city slicker, I’ve always dreamed of living rural. Photograph: Alan Betson No doctor, no pharmacy, no supermarket: I’m moving to an island
10 French writer, feminist activist and member of the Paris Council Alice Coffin. Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images Should women erase men from their lives? This writer thinks so
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