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Award winning garden designer Diarmuid Gavin is leading a push to get Ireland growing, highlighting the health benefits of getting outside in the garden as well as giving clear and useful advice on how to best grow plants, herbs, flowers, fruits and vegetables.

GroMor 2017

GroMor 2017 is an initiative by Retail Excellence Garden Centres and growers across Ireland in partnership with Bord Bia, sponsored by Bord Na Mona and Westland Ho...

Join us on Saturday April 29th for our ever popular Polytunnel and vegetable growing event.

Discover how to make the most of growing under cover and what to plant and sow now in the vegetable garden.

This event is FREE so we hope that you can join us.

Now is the time to start frost-tender vegetables including courgettes, cucumbers, French beans and squash. You’ll find these on sale at the garden centre in Boyle and Lanesboro Road both as seed or as young plants, ready-grown for you. These plants are destroyed by cold weather so can’t be planted outdoors until after the last threat of frost has passed: luckily they grow at lightning speed, so it doesn’t matter that you’re starting them off...

Fill your garden with sweet peas for a summer full of scent and colour! You’ll find potfuls of seedlings on sale at the garden centre here in Boyle and Lanesboro Road right now, ready to go straight into the garden at the foot of a sturdy wigwam or obelisk. Put them near a door, seat or path so you can really appreciate their simple yet delightful flowers and lovely scent.

Sweet peas

Sweet peas thrive in the open ground or in conta...

April showers may feature this month – but so does increasingly warm sunshine, making planting and pruning a pleasure. Here are a few of the jobs to be getting on with this month:

General tasks:

• Clean water features scrubbing off algae, fallen leaves and other debris then rinsing before refilling.
• Rake over patches of coarse grass in the lawn to raise them up before mowing so they’re...