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Michael Viney: Ability to identify plants vital, given their importance to food security and climate change
Seek and ye shall (mostly) find the detail of nature’s treasure trove
New free app helps identify flowers and trees and many species from animal and fungi kingdoms
Want to get children into gardening? You could start with sunflowers and a snailery
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Don’t hibernate: there’s plenty to do in the January garden
It may be cold and muddy but there’s pruning, planting and planning to be done
And sow it begins: Fionnuala Fallon’s picks her favourite seed packs for summer
Frilly flowers, tasty potatoes and onions worth waiting for can all be grown from seed
Ditch the peat, keep the lawn: Ten steps to a greener garden in 2020
Stop using pesticides, allow weeds to grow and go for pro-pollinator planting
Thought which counts: Cost of Varadkar’s gifts to foreign dignitaries
Green jersey at €60 a pop a staple of diplomacy with cufflinks, books and Celtic brooch
Take a leaf from this new crop of gardening books
Round-up of reads features no less than three octogenarians and one nonagenarian who have made outstanding contributions to horticulture
November is the time to sow sweet pea
November is the perfect time to plant this fast-growing, ultra-colourful and deeply scented annual climber
Christmas Star, Carmen, Snow Queen: an amaryllis for everyone
Plant its giant fleshy bulbs now and you should have tall, lily-like blooms for Christmas
How to love the natural world
National Heritage Week a prime opportunity to connect with our natural environment
Zoë Devlin: our unofficial ambassador for weeds, wasps and wagtails
The Irish botanist's love of observation has blossomed publicly only in retirement. Now, camera in hand, she is on a mission to record the island's plant life in all its glory
Spectacular Salvias guaranteed to satisfy
Vast, versatile plants are extraordinarily colourful, aromatic, long flowering and easy to cultivate
Finding hidden treasure in your garden
Herbalist Vivienne Campbell will walk your land and show you what’s good to eat and what cures are growing right under your nose
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