Paraic Horkan’s hints tips and tricks for everything gardening. Here you will find all you need to keep your garden looking it’s best, while keeping up to date with what you should be doing in the garden.
The August plant of the month is the wedding cake tree, which is also known as the cornus controversa variegata. The wedding cake tree is a small deciduous tree with beautifully layered horizontal branches. The stems and branch’s are red. This contrasts beautifully with its white, variegated foliage in spring, …
The July plant of the month is the climbing rose. Climbing roses are absolutely stunning at this time of year in all gardens, and they are so easy to grow. Large, double scented blooms on strong, vigorous stems make climbing roses one of the the most popular, flowering climbers. Climbing roses …
The ever-increasing popularity and sophistication of gardening has not gone unnoticed by the criminal world in Ireland. Garden crime is a reality, with over 2 million euros worth of garden machinery, tools, bicycles, lawn mowers and garden ornaments stolen in Irish gardens every summer. According to An Garda Síochána, the most likely …
Japanese Knotweed is a fast-growing plant. It is covered in white flowers from July to November, propagating itself all summer long. It produces edible, asparagus like shoots and forms large, bamboo like stems that grow up to 7 feet tall in one season… what’s not to like ? Well… Japanese Knotweed is …
