Digital garden planners are like spades — powerless unless masterfully steered by a human
AI garden-planning programs can be useful tools, but they can’t replace human imagination, experience — and the instinct to go rogue
Helen Dillon
Pretty blue home with big back garden in quaint country village for €295,000
Dating from 1900, attractive updated two-bedroom house in Glasson is just 15 minutes from Athlone town
Slice of Cotswold life in Delgany for €1.1m
Vico has a large garden laden with trees and shrubs with year round colour
Gardening: Patience with perennials will pay off
Not only will perennials endure for years, most will naturally bulk up over time
Polytunnel gardening could be your great escape
On rainy days a polytunnel offers warmth, seclusion and a leafy refuge
RTÉ has remade The Field. It is called Gardening Together with Diarmuid Gavin
Patrick Freyne: Gavin hasn’t had a land-hungry American visit yet, but it’s surely coming
Diarmuid Gavin invites us inside his Xanadu of split levels, balconies and fancy foliage
Gardening Together: Gavin is the Dark Knight to Dermot Bannon’s caped crusader
Gardening women: meet Fionnuala Fallon’s horticultural heroes
A “forest” of women across the world are connected by their love of plants and flowers
Write an essay and you could win a week-long culinary course in Italy
Food File: A competition for food lovers and a visual feast for children in the form of a book
Six great European gardens to discover on holidays
This week in the garden: Irish gardeners share their top places to visit on holidays
Dig in for summer: 10 things to do in the June garden
Lots to see and do this month plus garden festivals, workshops and open days to get you going
Sustainable gardens blossom at Bloom
Climate change is a focus for some of Ireland’s top gardeners at Phoenix Park festival
Nine things to do in the garden in April
Sow organic seeds, cut less lawn and let the wild things grow in your garden
Mulch: the great garden cure-all
Spread lightly at this time of year a good organic mulch helps to protect against the effects of summer drought
High in the Himalayas, an Irish plant-hunter’s paradise
Some of loveliest plant species in Irish gardens hail from the tiny Indian state of Sikkim
Suite sensation in Kilkenny
Travel Bag: Mindful skiing in Italy, stargazing in Clontarf and busy in Kelly’s
Down the garden path to Altamont’s walled wonder
The walled garden and nursery at Altamont in Co Carlow is horticultural heaven
First look at Helen Dillon’s new seaside garden in Monkstown
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
Eight great long-flowering plants for the June garden
Some hard-working flowers and shrubs will last all the way to September
Cheat’s guide to getting your garden ready for summer
Follow these steps then sit back and relax with a good (gardening) book
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
Our cool, rainy climate is heaven for sexed-up slugs
How to deal with spring slugs in search of food and prospective mates
Fionnuala Fallon: the best Christmas gifts for gardeners
From seeds to secateurs, some green gift ideas for the keen, and the casual, gardener
Secluded haven on Ranelagh’s secret street for €2.95m
Sandford Terrace, where Mary Robinson lived, is hidden away but close to the city
‘It’s like being the conductor of a fantastic horticultural orchestra’
Corkman Alan Power on becoming the new head gardener at the famous Stourhead
Diarmuid Gavin goes to pot with concept of city gardens
In a time of renting and mobility, why not tend your plants in transportable vessels?
How to make your garden a haven for bees
Trees, variety and a little wilderness – seven ways to lure pollinators to your plot
Ten great dahlias to grow this year
With a range of heights and in a spectrum of colours, dahlias are perfect for your garden
Our favourite houses of 2016
Trophy homes and stately manors may grab all the property headlines, but these are the real homes that captured our hearts
Top property sales 2016 – who bought and sold
The year saw a shift from D4 to D6 while the country market slowed on the previous year
Dublin 4 house contents auction features wine and a Maserati
Fine Georgian furniture, paintings and a pair of stone sphinxes from Helen Dillon’s garden also feature
A farewell to Number 45, as Helen Dillon closes the garden gate
The horticultural luminary has taught many gardeners innumerable lessons in generosity, bravery, joyfulness, editing and anti-snobbery
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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