Garden Blog

In February/March we start sowing for the season in earnest. No great quantity of anything as it is still quite early. Sowing at this time

Now we are into March, we are now winding up our various winter projects and the mower is out topping the luxuriant growth of grass.

The days are lengthening and the temperature is perceptibly slightly warmer. We decided to plant a tree fern into the open ground in a sheltered,

Last autumn, we took some hardwood cuttings of Berberis thunbergia ‘Atropurpurea Nana’, a fabulous small berberis which forms a fine square-sided, small hedge around 2

We are still planting at Glenarm, especially after a couple of bouts of prolonged rainfall – beauteous rain! In our lighter sandy loam, Magnesium becomes

Thankfully, the squirrel has forgotten about our luscious tree fern and the drama of its unfurling has been allowed to continue unmolested. The tulips have

The Irish spring continues to rage around us with cold, drying winds, overcast skies and very little in the way of rain. One old book

The biennials sown in June are now ready to go outside to bulk up for the late summer, before they are lifted and planted out

Late summer is a great time to take semi-ripe cuttings. At the moment, we have Abutilon ‘Nabob’, Buddleja colvilei, Lonicera brownii ‘Dropmore Scarlet’, Senecio glastifolius,

Nights are beginning to cool now and so we are making preparations for the autumn and winter. We have been growing many different types of

October is a good time to take all sorts of soft-wood cuttings. Most have ripened a little and they are no longer soft as the

The weather has been as wet as I’ve ever known it, which sadly fits the Met Eireann prediction that Ireland will be getting wetter over