The Irish Times

Gardening: Seven blooming great free designs to try at home

Annual garden festival Bloom goes virtual with design packs, competitions and talks

Sat Jun 05 2021 - 06:00

'You can produce so much from so little, once you have the know-how'

How Dublin's Mount Venus Nursery survived and even thrived during the lockdown

Sat Sept 12 2020 - 06:00

This jewel of a gravel garden needs weeding just once a year

Des Doyle’s unique creation is ultra low-maintenance but also dynamic and very beautiful

Sat Jul 11 2020 - 09:03

Summer drought, winter floods? These plants will survive it all

Expert gardeners select the plants that have outperformed the rest in weather extremes

Sat Jun 27 2020 - 00:00

Bloom to Zoom: garden fest is online with chats and tips

The annual garden festival is cancelled because of the coronavirus, but there is plenty for gardeners to do this weekend

Sat May 30 2020 - 00:00

Sustainable gardens blossom at Bloom

Climate change is a focus for some of Ireland’s top gardeners at Phoenix Park festival

Sat May 25 2019 - 00:00

Bloom 2018: everything you need to know about the garden festival

Pick of the prize winning gardens and don't forget to try gins laced with botanicals in a new distillery zone

Wed May 30 2018 - 10:53

Supergrass: transform your patch into a prairie with these elegant grasses

No other group of plants has the same ability to add movement, life and texture to a garden

Sat Mar 24 2018 - 06:00

Monty Don the sell-out star of Carlow Garden Festival

BBC ‘Gardener’s World’ presenter heads a long list of experts at popular nine-day event

Sat Jul 15 2017 - 06:00

Park yourself in Dublin’s finest garden

New exhibition highlights role Phoenix Park has played in capital’s history

Sat Apr 01 2017 - 06:00

Irish Gardens to visit this summer

At this time of the year many are looking at their most florierous and leafy best

Fri Jun 10 2016 - 16:30

Gardens: Plant some seeds of inspiration

Next year’s catalogues are out, and there are lots of interesting new plants to consider growing

Sat Dec 26 2015 - 11:00

Bulbs: dig deep now and reap the rewards come spring

Now is the time to plant bulbs that will give you armfuls of spring and summer flowers

Sat Sept 19 2015 - 05:04

Grow: Wade into a sea of vibrant spring flowers

Visit June Blake’s Wicklow garden to see a sea of tulips and other blooms

Sun Apr 19 2015 - 09:00

The hardy boys of the garden

Autumn-sown plants have a significant headstart on spring-sown, producing larger, more vigorous and much earlier-flowering plants

Sat Sept 13 2014 - 01:56

Seat success

The perfect garden chair is beautiful, comfortable and hard-wearing. No wonder it’s become the holy grail for design engineers

Sat Aug 31 2013 - 01:00