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Persicaria ampexicaulis ‘fat Domino’. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Keep on blooming: late summer flowers that keep the garden going

Most keen gardeners can rattle off a list of the popular hardy perennials that act as the colourful mainstays of the late summer garden. Well-known e(...)

Bulbs: dig deep now and reap the rewards come spring

I love the magic, the promise and the muddy-fingered industry of planting flower bulbs in autumn. Not only does it feel like an expression of hope,(...)

Sculptural foliage of silver leafed Astelia, Schefflera hoi and tree ferns growing in the city garden of designer Bernard Hickie. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Sunny plants for shady places

Like most people, I don’t have a woodland garden. Which is not to say that I don’t have plenty of shady spots in the garden that are eminently suitabl(...)

June Blake’s exciting, contemporary garden in County Wicklow. Photographs: Richard Johnston
Don’t be afraid to dig deep in the garden this year

‘New beginnings”, “a fresh start”, “a new leaf”; these are the words that rattle round our heads in the fledgling weeks of a brand new year. In the(...)

Tunnel vision

If you belong to that growing band of Irish gardeners who are proud owners of a polytunnel, then this is the month when the latter should, by rights, (...)

Dahlias in fashion

In the way that some people remember their first kiss, I still remember the day as a young teenager that I fell in love with dahlias, after my (...)