Creative Gardening

Kloe Wood Lyndorff and Adam Carveth set up their garden design and  experience business five years ago with the aim of connecting people with nature. As well as a range of garden design services, they offer boutique botanical themed accommodation and a variety of new tasting tours of The Garden […]

Magnolias are beautiful, glamourous plants, with their tulip-shaped, goblet-shaped or strap-petalled flowers. They are also very ancient; one of the first flowering plants on earth, they pre-date bees and their open flowers are pollinated by beetles. Mattie Keane from Future Forest shares how to choose and care for them. Some […]

It’s been four years since married couple Aimi Pinder and Lucy Smith landed their dream home on eight acres in the shape of a ‘crooked boot’ in Ballydehob. Since then they have created a thriving plant nursery business, supplying homegrown garden plants to local farmers’ markets and more recently Neighbourfood.ie.  […]

According to Biodiversity Ireland there are over 100 separate bee species in Ireland: this includes the native Irish honeybee (Apis Mellifera Mellifera), 21 species of bumblebee and 78 separate species of solitary bee. The different bees are active at different times through the year but most bees emerge in February […]

From the first moment of every day when we slip from between our cotton sheets, walk across our wooden floor and enjoy a reviving cup of coffee, almost everything we touch has originated in the soil and yet, although our civilisation has penetrated the depths of space, we rarely consider […]