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The journal
Reading for the Irish garden
Twenty pieces on soil, structure and the plants that actually settle in an Irish garden — written from twelve acres in Celbridge.
Soil & Ground
Reading the ground before you spend anything on it.
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Irish Conditions
Wind, salt and water — the three things that actually decide what lives here.
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Design Principles
Structure, depth and rhythm: the decisions that come before the plant list.
- Hedges and Boundaries: Choosing the Right Green Wall for an Irish Garden A boundary shelters, screens, encloses and feeds wildlife, and the material decides which of those it does well. Here is...
- How to Make a Small Irish Garden Feel Larger How large a garden feels has little to do with how large it measures. A handful of spatial decisions, most...
- Learning to See: Four Questions to Ask Before You Design Anything Before you draw a line or buy a plant, learn to read the space you already have. Four questions —...
- Repetition: The Quietest Trick in Garden Design Choosing three or four reliable plants and repeating them the length of a garden is the simplest way to make...
- The Four Layers: How to Plant a Border with Real Depth Most amateur borders read flat because almost everything in them is the same height. Thinking of a border as four...
- Bones Before Beauty: Giving a Garden Structure That Works in February The permanent framework of a garden — its paths, levels, enclosure and evergreen mass — carries it through the eight...
Choosing Plants
How to judge a plant on the bench, and what to ask before you buy it.
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Planting & Care
Getting them in the ground properly, and keeping them alive afterwards.
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