Sarah Price

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Jennifer Jewell: “I see hope and value in a self-sustaining cycle of living with plants, loving plants, learning plants, growing plants, knowing plants, interpreting plants.” Photograph: John Whittlesey
Gardening women: meet Fionnuala Fallon’s horticultural heroes

  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(...)

Sarah Price’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018 garden. Photograph: Clare Takacs
A Chelsea winner's guide to creating a tranquil garden

Subtle, thoughtful and planet-friendly, there is a delicacy and intelligence to the work of the British garden designer Sarah Price – one of the key s(...)

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 (...)

Ceramic ‘Girl Power Vase’ by For All Womenkind (€35, aprilandthebear.com )
Spread a little garden love this Christmas

Badly in need of some inspiration when it comes to choosing the perfect gift for the special gardener in your life? Then this one’s for you: Under €3(...)

View along the double herbaceous border at Altamont’s walled garden in Co Carlow, which is managed by nurseryman Robert Miller. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Down the garden path to Altamont’s walled wonder

There are some gardens that slowly seep into your soul to occupy a special place in your affections. Altamont in Ballon, Co Carlow, the former home of(...)

Sculptural foliage of silver leafed Astelia, Schefflera hoi and tree ferns growing in the city garden of designer Bernard Hickie. Photograph: Richard Johnston
Sunny plants for shady places

Like most people, I don’t have a woodland garden. Which is not to say that I don’t have plenty of shady spots in the garden that are eminently suitabl(...)

Cornelia Parker’s installation War Room in the Whitworth Gallery in the University of Manchester
The Whitworth: bigger is better for the ‘Tate of the north’

Think of a university gallery of contemporary art in an Irish context and the Douglas Hyde and the Lewis Glucksman Gallery come to mind. With a stu(...)