Tulips, erythroniums and trilliums: aristocratic bulbs for planting season
As planting season begins in earnest, consider looking beyond the obvious for spring-flowering bulbs
We have a problem with squirrels in our garden. What can we do to keep them at bay?
Fionnuala Fallon: As charming as their arboreal acrobatics might be to watch, grey squirrels can be a real problem in Irish gardens
How can I create my own pocket forest?
Fionnuala Fallon: Autumn is an excellent time to collect the ripe seed of most trees
Organic market gardener Charles Dowding: ‘So many people are intimidated or confused by the advice available’
With 45 years as an organic market gardener under his belt, Charles Dowding has a feast of knowledge to share in his new book Compost
The best ornamental grasses for gardens: the ones to pick and how to grow them
The long-lasting feathers of ornamental grasses are one of their greatest charms
‘My 15-year-old tree is displaying blighting. How can I save it’
‘It has been displaying a blighting appearance for the past few years’
After a washout summer, the boxes of spring-flowering bulbs will soon start to arrive
The long, autumunal shadows herald the season of mucky fingers, hard physical work and great joy
‘Something ate my potatoes underground. What could have done this?
A cat might be the best form of defence against the likely rodent culprits
I moved my plant to a bigger pot and now the leaves are falling off. What can I do?
Since I repotted it into a bigger pot, its bottom leaves have started to droop and fall off
Autumn comes bearing gifts for the garden
The days may be shorter and darker, but there are still vivid pleasures to be found in the garden, from roses to doughty hawthorn and holly
How do I get rid of ant nests in my polytunnel?
There are simple things you can do to discourage them without resorting to harmful and often ineffective insecticides
A wealth of late-blooming plants are bright stars of the autumn garden
What the daisy family, Asteraceae, have in common is daisy-shaped flowers and ability to feed bees, butterflies, hoverflies and many other pollinating insects
‘Good looks aren’t enough for potatoes. They’ve got to taste delicious.’
Raymond Higgins grows champion-level potatoes from his allotments near Blarney in Cork
I want to go with peat-free gardening: how can I do it?
Fionnuala Fallon: Use of peat is gradually being phased out due to EU targets to mitigate climate change, support biodiversity, and protect wetlands
Forever flowers: the handful of biennials on my must-grow list
Canterbury bells, Sweet William, foxgloves and wallflowers are among my favourite flowers