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May issue of The Irish Garden Magazine








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May contents

 

GARDEN CARE

04 Ornamental garden

- trees, shrubs and flowers

10 Kitchen garden

- growing fruit, vegetables and herbs

18 Greenhouse and indoor plants

PLANTS AND GARDENS


20 GARDEN VISIT: Delightfully natural!

A grass drive leads to Meriel Murdock's charming country garden in Wicklow. Shirley Lanigan visited recently and found it full of irresistible lure and romance.

26 PLANT PROFILE: Amazing aroids!

The distinctive flower structure and somewhat reptilian shape and colouring of aroids, members of the arum family, sets them apart from other flowers, and aroid grower Deborah Begley is an avowed fan.


32 FLOWER GARDEN FEATURE

Have you tried making land art in your garden? It's as simple as can be, very satisfying and great fun.

70 HOUSE PLANT: Claire Woods suggests growing the beautiful, tropical lipstick plant

GARDEN DESIGN and KNOW-HOW

36 DESIGN DESK: Owen Chubb relates in words and pictures how he transformed a typical suburban garden on behalf of a client.

42 KNOW-HOW: feedback from our readers

Ask a question about a gardening problem

Pass on a useful tip to other readers,

 or tell us about your garden or plant success story ... and win a prize!

Expert advice and ideas for your garden

53 Shirley Lanigan on the value of a top-up garden course.

55 Rachel Darlington replicates a colour scheme of purple and red.



REFLECTIONS

50 GARDEN HISTORY: Charles Nelson explores some floral connections with Shakespeare.

56 NOTEBOOK: North Rae McIntyre

Self-sowing plants, geraniums, lady's mantle and valerian

57 NOTEBOOK: East Barry Murphy

Cyclamen survives, anemones thrive and dividing blue poppies

64 NATURE: Dick Warner reports on the damaging effects of escaped aquatic plants.

66 PEOPLE: Mr Bloom - Gary Graham outlines the life path that brought him to the Phoenix Park.

71 OVERLEAF: Newly published garden books

80 WEEKENDER: In the country with Mary Davies.

 

LIFESTYLE

41 FAVOURITE PLANT: Broadcaster Michael Ryan

54 STYLE ESSENTIALS: Lindie Naughton has compiled a selection of accessories and equipment for garden and conservatory.

60 COOKING: Niall Murphy's recipes for Pan-fried mackerel with roasted rhubarb and Summer berry tiramisu, and Caroline Byrne suggests wines to accompany them.

65 WELLBEING: Chocolate

72 GARDEN CENTRE EXPERIENCE: Florence Halliday won €300 worth of plants at Windyridge Nurseries, Dún Laoighre, Co. Dublin.

FEATURES

58 MEET THE GROWER: Fána Nurseries, Co. Cork.

76 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

85 GARDEN CLUB NOTES - what's on around the country in May.

78 UPDATE - events and news.

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