Fionnuala Fallon
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Elegant styling with added garden room on popular Ballsbridge road for €2.5m
- New to Market
- August 13, 2020, 06:00
Set in a terrace of 11 houses, number 83 Anglesea Road has the distinction of being one of just three double-fronted properties on this popular Ballsb(...)

Make the cut: How to get great garden plants for free
- Gardens
- June 13, 2020, 00:00
Lockdown has given us anything, it’s a new appreciation for traditional propagating skills From the lengthy closure of garden centres to th(...)

Bloom to Zoom: garden fest is online with chats and tips
- Gardens
- May 30, 2020, 00:00
The pandemic has upturned this year’s gardening calendar, forcing the cancellation of festivals, talks, plant fairs, workshops and other green-fingere(...)

Veg out: May is the perfect time to sow carrots, peas, beans and more
- Gardens
- May 9, 2020, 00:00
May. It’s the month of lilac and hawthorn blossom, of columbines and violets in the woods, of freshly hatched seedlings and neat rows of spring-sown p(...)

Coronavirus: Supply chain shortages leave gardeners waiting for seeds
- Gardens
- April 3, 2020, 18:00
Forced to stay home as a result of Covid-19 restrictions and with far more free time on their hands, many people are happily dusting off their spades (...)

Coronavirus: Your 12-step guide to passing the time in quarantine
- Health
- March 20, 2020, 15:20
Social distancing is vital to preventing the spread of coronavirus amid the Covid-19 pandemic. It is also, as people across Ireland and the world are (...)

Gardening women: meet Fionnuala Fallon’s horticultural heroes
- Gardens
- March 7, 2020, 00:00
We all have our heroes and it’s not surprising so many of mine belong in one way or another to the world of plants. They include gardeners, de(...)

Stock up your bulbs: how a No Deal Brexit will hit gardeners
- Gardens
- September 21, 2019, 00:00
Brexit. Is there any other word that provokes such a potent mix of anxiety, ennui, fury and despair? As gardeners it’s made us realise how much we’ve (...)

Meet Jimi Blake, the garden obsessive who became gardening royalty
- Gardens
- September 14, 2019, 00:00
He’s been described by the Telegraph newspaper as one of the world’s “new plant gurus” and is chums with Monty Don (the mellifluous-voiced presenter o(...)

Want head-turning spring flowers? Now is the time to buy
- Gardens
- September 7, 2019, 00:00
When I recently mentioned to a non-gardening friend that I needed to order my spring-flowering bulbs before all the “must-have” varieties sold out, sh(...)