Over the garden fence: Irish celebrities open up their gardens

For Darina Allen it’s the pond at the end of her garden, for Donal Skehan and Trevor Sargent it’s their vegetable plots, and for Peter Kelly it’s his polythene tunnel. Ahead of Bloom, Áilín Quinlan peeks over the fence into the gardens and personal oases of four well-known Irish faces.

Donal Skehan Chef and author

“I’ve got a busy life but it’s great fun and I really do enjoy it. I suppose it’s only in the last two years that things have become as crazy as they are.