Mount Stewart Gardens County Down

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Cluain na dTor gardens in Donegal. Photograph: Seamus O’Donnell
The secrets to growing an exotic Irish garden

There are times, surrounded by the gloomy, grey drip-drip of an endless Irish winter, when I wonder what it would be like to live in a country with an(...)

Kick up some leaves: five great Irish gardens to visit before winter arrives

What is it about autumn that fills most of us with gentle melancholy as well as a strange sort of restlessness? All it takes is a sniff of the toffee-(...)

Photograph: Richard Johnston
No garden of your own? Join a community and get growing

What do you do when you love to garden but don’t have a garden of your own? That’s the conundrum facing an increasing number of Irish people as apartm(...)

Drifts of bluebells flowering in the woodland gardens of Mount Usher in Co Wicklow. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Take a walk in the woods for inspiration for shady town gardens

If this were – deep sigh – a typical spring, then many Irish gardens would already be awash with the flowers and foliage of some of our loveliest wood(...)