Gardening

Borage, or Starflower, is definitely a plant you should consider adding to your garden, not only does it give months…

March is an important time to get the perennial pots in order (by ‘perennial pots’ I mean large planters that…

This week storm Doris has battered our gardens, damaging flowers and toppling a few trees along its way. Many a…

You may be one of them gardeners who talks away to themselves when you’re tending to your plants, maybe you…

I love snowdrops… I mean really love snowdrops – and not just from a gardening point of view, for me…

This past week I’ve been in a few garden centres and everyone has masses of spring flowering bulbs at reduced…

January means starting a new calendar, and one of the first things you do is flick through the pictures and…

Cold weather is good for plants. Although we tend to think about cold as being destructive or as being a…

Holly laden with red berries is a wonderful sight, and sought after at this time of year. Many gardeners who…

Many of us will have some climbing plants in the garden, Clematis Honeysuckles and Roses are just some of the…

This week I was in Lissellan estate near Clonakilty in Cork, and within the sprawling estate there was a beech…

I’ve long suggested that the off-season is a great time to visit ornamental gardens. Visit gardens in the summer surely,…

Currently I’m down in Cork city, and when here I’m trying to absorb as much of the fabulous Horticulture which…

As we know as gardeners some plants are prized for their flowers, some for their structure and others for habit,…

This year the Autumn colours on the trees, shrubs and plants in the garden has rarely been bettered, the combination…

The phrase ‘Putting the garden to bed for the winter’, ‘Giving everything a cut back’, ‘Cutting everything back’ are all…

The invasive weed Fallopia Japonica, otherwise known as Japanese Knotweed, has made some serious headlines over the past few years,…

This week Donegal Daily’s gardening columnist Gareth Austin explains that growing garlic is a lot easier than you might think!…

This past week I was out and about visiting gardens and giving consultations on everything from choosing plants for wet…

One of the problems facing many gardeners at this time of year is how long do you persevere with the…