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I had a friend who once had a glorious berrying cotoneaster outside the front window of their house. The tree was about 30 years old, with a corresponding mature umbrella shape. It looked good all year as it was semi-evergreen, with flowers in May ...

21 Feb 2020 at 07:00

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A gardening cat-astrophe!

Up until last year I have always had an official cat in the garden. I know they are thought to be a nuisance by many, and even a force for evil by some, but many will also agree that they are wonderful animals, clever, interesting and ...

26 Jan 2020 at 11:00

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February freeze vital to kickstart crops

We finally got our winter and for some reason it took us by surprise. It always does. Very often, December and January are mild, and when followed by a cold February, we get a terrible shock. The shock and put-uponness we feel, when ...

02 Mar 2020 at 08:00

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With green shoots showing, it’s time to start on the 2020 garden

Last week I wrote about getting out to see the green shoots already growing in the winter garden. This week, you can begin sowing new things for the coming year. Sweet pea is a great summer favourite and we can always buy trays of ...

11 Jan 2020 at 13:34

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Border crawl a reminder of the past

Crawling through a border at this time of the year, trying to pick out weeds and give a prettier background to the emerging snouts of bulbs and early perennials, it is easy to forget the scrum of plants that squashed up against ...

18 Jan 2020 at 13:34

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Plan ahead for annual flowers

It is here, early March – when many are still looking out the window, thinking about maybe getting stuck into a bit of gardening sometime soon – probably after St Patrick’s Day. Our national holiday in March is the day when, ...

15 Mar 2020 at 09:00

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The ever-changing face of gardening

I was listening to a radio programme recently and heard mention of a 50-year-old gardening club in England. They spoke about the prizes that were given back then for the best vegetables and flowers at the annual show. It ...

15 Mar 2020 at 06:00

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Kilkenny People Gardening Column

There is a great sense of anticipation to be felt in a garden at this time of year. It is around now that you find if that scrap of a stick poking up in the ground is going to begin to grow and grow up to be a great ...

16 Feb 2017 at 12:45

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Early green shoots can mean trouble

I am looking out at a sad sight at the moment – a mass of brown stems and twigs - bare and a bit miserable. It is the variegated ivy that covers the boundary wall near the house, knotted through with a big white ...

17 Feb 2020 at 07:00

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Harnessing the light in your garden

The light that comes into the garden in January and February comes in sideways. The sun hangs not far above the horizon for much of the day, so when it hits the garden it throws a completely different sort of ...

02 Feb 2020 at 12:00

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A festival of snowdrops!

Every year it gets bigger and better - Snowdrop month, a Carlow festival that happily creeps over the border into Kilkenny, a celebration of the little white beauty that is the native snowdrop. The white and ...

08 Feb 2020 at 12:19

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