Tag Archive: Nature

Kildare Post Gardening Column – What to do this week in the garden

  Below you will find one of my three articles that appeared in the Kildare Post this week. This week I have focused on hanging baskets, home remedies to garden pests and the final… Continue reading

Wordless Wednesday – A Hidden Path

Paul’s Patch – A vegetable garden update

This is Paul’s second guest blog post for Beyond The Wild Garden and this time Paul is updating us on what has been happening in his vegetable patch since we last heard from… Continue reading

Wild Flower Lawns

You may remember a few weeks ago I posted an article from Bloom about a talk given by Gerry Daly. The talk was all about making gardening easier and how to make your… Continue reading

First Salad Harvest of the Summer

It is officially summer now that I have harvested my first salad from the vegetable garden. This year I have planted some fun salad items but unfortunately the multicoloured beetroot and things like… Continue reading

A postcard snap of Irish Gardens at Bloom

The postcard gardens at Bloom are a relatively new addition to the festival. In their second year now they offer amateur gardeners and gardening groups in Ireland an opportunity to showcase their skills… Continue reading

Wordless Wednesday – Splash of Red

Plant Focus – Lords and Ladies

Lords and Ladies, Arum maculatum, is a native Irish plant that I first noticed one autumn when I saw spikes of red, almost holly like, berries sticking out of the ground. I must admit I… Continue reading

A different kind of Horse Chestnut – Kildare Post Gardening Column

Below is my gardening column which appeared in the Kildare Post on 14 May 2014. I have had a bit more time recently to spend admiring my surroundings and was I happy to… Continue reading

Getting to grips with the garden – Kildare Post Gardening Column

Below is my gardening column that appeared in print in the Kildare Post on the 30th April 2014. At the time I was spurred on to catch up on the many gardening tasks… Continue reading