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Feel like getting your hands dirty? These pointers will kick-start your garden's return to loveliness

‘We’re holding off taking orders until things become clearer’: some British suppliers suspend mail service

The pandemic’s black cloud came with a silver lining: the joy of digging and planting

Susan Lynch’s Vintage Rose Company is home to more than 2000 productive rose bushes

Enjoy your garden through the cold months while laying the groundwork for spring

Another seasonal bounty of vegetables and flowers from its Victorian kitchen garden

If we have learned anything, it’s a new appreciation for traditional propagating skills

Here are some fun ways to share the special magic of gardening in the months ahead

By late spring you’ll have hordes of baby plants ready to be planted outdoors, all for the price of a few packets of seeds

From peas to radishes, spuds to spinach, these will give you a harvest in no time

Spring has sprung and it’s time to get going in the garden

A “forest” of women across the world are connected by their love of plants and flowers

We can easily recreate the sense of an Australian rainforest, leafy Asian woodland or a sun-baked Mediterranean garden, at home

Itching to get going in the kitchen garden or allotment? Here’s a handful of crops to start growing now

It may be cold and muddy but there’s pruning, planting and planning to be done

The kind of gardens we want to create will radically evolve over the coming decade

Supermarkets are piled high with fruit imports but it’s not hard to grow your own

Some of Ireland’s loveliest gardens put on a fine display of autumn foliage

Now is the perfect month to plant spring-flowering bulbs including narcissus, crocus, scilla and allium

New book shows all sides of this Irish horticultural genius and his beloved Hunting Brook in west Wicklow

The gardening writer was in Ireland just before the same sex marriage vote

Deer find certain plants delicious, like camellia and roses, but they don’t like rhurbarb

While most roses will like space, a rich, fertile soil and full sun, there are some that will cope well with all kinds of conditions

Don’t buy from a garden centre in early autumn, propagate from seed sown now

Lots to see and do this month plus garden festivals, workshops and open days to get you going

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

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

These May flowers will bridge the gap between the spring bulb rush and summer

Let’s celebrate some of the loveliest flowering plants for the Irish garden

Sow organic seeds, cut less lawn and let the wild things grow in your garden

Follow the three Ds by using secateurs to remove any dead, diseased or dying wood

Not much happens in the January garden but it's a good time to find summer inspiration in seed catalogues

This year’s fine crop tackles everything from wartime gardens to a guide to propagation

Trees to plant, gloves to wear, cards to write trowels to dig, seeds to sow and a pad to rest

You don’t need huge space to grow a meadow garden – and now is the time to sow it

Fionnuala Fallon: Hardy annuals will happily endure an average cold Irish winter

No amount of watering is going to be as good for plants as sweet, clean, cool Irish rain

It's a busy month in the gardening year. Time to tidy the summer pots and start planting for winter greens

Even with the hosepipe ban, you can coax a decent harvest over the coming months

After 45 years in her Ranalegh show garden, the celebrated TV gardener started from scratch at nearly 80, in a walled garden that's now open to the public