Dublin 5 Horticultural Society
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The secrets to growing an exotic Irish garden
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- February 29, 2020, 00:00
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(...)

Dig now for victory in the kitchen garden
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- February 23, 2019, 00:00
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(...)

Tunnel vision: Undercover gardening extends the growing season at both ends
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- January 26, 2019, 00:00
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(...)

It’s the 1970s all over again as house plants grow on us
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- November 24, 2018, 00:00
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 (...)

Time to plant your sleeping beauties
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- September 29, 2018, 00:00
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(...)

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(...)

From basil to tarragon, how to get your herb garden going
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- May 12, 2018, 06:00
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
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- November 25, 2017, 08:00
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(...)

Tiny front garden? You can still have a tree or two and a nature-friendly space
- Gardens
- November 11, 2017, 08:00
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(...)

Different colours in the garden will lift or lower your mood
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- August 12, 2017, 08:00
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(...)