Dublin 5 Horticultural Society

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The golden flower heads of Stipa gigantea
Dig now for victory in the kitchen garden

Some people hate late February but not me. It gives us hellebores with flowers the colour of ballet shoes, crushed strawberries, storm-clouds and cuc(...)

Sheltered beneath that all-important protective skin of glass or polythene sheeting, plants enjoy a modified microclimate that facilitates growth.
Tunnel vision: Undercover gardening extends the growing season at both ends

If you’re the proud owner of a polytunnel or glasshouse, then you’ll already know that undercover gardening marches to the beat of a very different dr(...)

House plants decoratively displayed are a favourite with Instagrammers
It’s the 1970s all over again as house plants grow on us

Care to hazard a guess as to the rising stars of social media in this digitally-obsessed age of ours? No, it’s not the cosmetically-enhanced wannabes (...)

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

If someone suggested that you should spend your hard-earned money on something that looks distinctly unappealing and then expend quite a bit of physic(...)

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

When Helen Dillon and her husband, antiques specialist Val Dillon, announced in 2016 that they were putting their Ranelagh home up for sale, many hear(...)

A small informal herb garden
From basil to tarragon, how to get your herb garden going

Ask any seasoned kitchen gardener pressed for time and growing space to name a group of plants that combine impressive productivity and general all-ro(...)

Pond life: how to get your water garden fit for fish and flowers

A Cork reader asks for advice on how to give her garden pond a makeover: “Help! While our small garden pond has given us immense pleasure over the ye(...)

A carport surrounded by flowers, as seen at Bloom in 2014.
Tiny front garden? You can still have a tree or two and a nature-friendly space

Continuing our mini-series where I temporarily don the hat of horticultural agony aunt, this week’s query is from a reader in Dublin. “Help! While we(...)

A vibrant combination of pink comsos, scarlet roses and purple lythrum growing in Helen Dillon’s old garden in Ranelagh a few years ago. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Different colours in the garden will lift or lower your mood

Is there any other topic more subjective – or more divisive – to gardeners than colour in terms of how we perceive it, enjoy it and use it in our gard(...)