Dominica Mckevitt

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Jobs to do in the garden
Sow delicous: Five great veg and fruit crops to grow this month

 Tomatoes: If you can lavish these hungry, thirsty, heat-loving plants with plenty of attention throughout the growing season, then they’ll rewar(...)

Box hedging in an Irish garden. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Dig in, it’s bare-root planting season

Like shiny-haired, doe-eyed contestants in a reality TV show, it’s the prettiest plants in fullest leaf and bonniest bloom – those exhibiting what the(...)

Snowdrops.
Finding magic in the February garden

It’s funny how the arrival of spring so often takes us by surprise. Each day a few more precious minutes of daylight until nature’s pendulum silently (...)

Seamus O’Brien, head gardener at National Botanic Gardens at Kilmacurragh – and now author
High in the Himalayas, an Irish plant-hunter’s paradise

Have you ever paused to wonder where the plants that grow in our Irish gardens and parks originally come from? It might be a surprise to learn that s(...)