How to make the most of an autumn garden harvest
Properly harvesting and storing delicious produce is as challenging as growing it
How you can make the most of 'the magic fairydust' of foliage in your garden
Blinded by our love affair with flowers, we struggle to see what’s right under our noses
Georgian-style grandeur with modern comforts in Blessington for €4.85m
Built in the 1990s, the main house is on 62 lakeside acres with a coach house, mews, stables and yards
Meet Jimi Blake, the garden obsessive who became gardening royalty
New book shows all sides of this Irish horticultural genius and his beloved Hunting Brook in west Wicklow
Wonky stems and blowsy blooms: The new way to arrange flowers
Fashionable florists choose simple posies over imported flowers and ‘toxic’ foam
The miracle of lilac: long-living, sweet-smelling and very easy to grow
Grow them as a shrub or small tree in a lawn, an informal hedge, or even trained against a high wall where their foliage will act as a foil for flowering plants
Container gardening: five tips for creating brilliantly coloured pots
Now is the time to start planting pots that will burst into colour in high summer. Artist and gardener TJ Maher shares some of his secrets for maximising their impact
Gardening: Get next summer all sown up
Fionnuala Fallon: Hardy annuals will happily endure an average cold Irish winter
How to plant a perfect window box – and then keep it alive
If you’re something of a serial killer when it comes to window box plants, then you’re probably not watering them enough
The best gardens to visit in Ireland this summer
Get your fill of green, from tiny city gardens to lovely country spreads
Want to get children gardening? Here’s how
Start with small projects such as growing sunflowers, potatoes and even oranges
Peonies: Blousy beauties that last and last
Peonies, favoured for their blooms, are long lasting plants that can survive for decades
Root causes of success with prize-winning vegetables
The nonagenarian head of a family of champion growers shares his secrets
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