Bob Brown

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Triona Noonan in her garden in Dun Laoghaire with some of her prized alpine and rock plants Photo Credit Richard Johnston
The new rock garden: petite plants are perfect for small space living

Say the words “rock gardening” to most young(ish) gardeners and they’re likely to gently wrinkle their noses and shake their heads in amused bewilderm(...)

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(...)

Time to get the garden ready for summer. Getty
Cheat’s guide to getting your garden ready for summer

 Few things remind us more forcefully of the fleeting, quicksand nature of time than a garden, especially the last few months where spring lasted(...)

Nettles: the soupy mix will transform itself into a smelly but impressively effective, nutrient-rich, liquid plant feed. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Nettles, borage, seaweed: just the tonic your garden needs

“Grasp the nettle” goes the famous saying, and that’s exactly what I’ve been doing over the last week, albeit with my hands gloved and wielding a long(...)

Two women embrace while watching sheriff’s deputies on duty at the scene in Berkeley where six Irish students were killed. They said hthey knew the victims. Photograph: AP Photo/Noah Berger
Berkeley: ‘Our condolences go to the Irish people’
  • US
  • June 16, 2015, 23:58

It was around midnight in California’s best-known college town when Berkeley police got the first call from Kittredge Street tenants and neighbours. A(...)

Andrea Jones photographing the gardens at Ballyfin House, Co Laois. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Picture perfect

Flick through the pages of any glossy British or American gardening magazine and you’ll almost certainly come across the work of award-winning photogr(...)