TAKE your eye off the garden in autumn or winter and it can be quite forgiving, as the growth rate slows and then stops for a while before everything starts again the following spring.

Bloom proved that you can have an environmental message and still be ‘showy’, says Peter Dowdall

Brexit meant the Chelsea Flower Show was an all-UK affair, but it didn’t disappoint Peter Dowdall.

The Royal Horticultural Society’s annual flagship event, the Chelsea Flower Show kicked off on Tuesday morning. Widely regarded as the top flower and garden show in the world a medal at this festival which runs this week at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea can send a career to that of a superstar in the Horticultural world.

It may seem a world away from the stuffy offices of EU Headquarters in Brussels but the results of the Brexit referendum all the way back in 2016 are being felt on the Main Avenue at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in Central London this week.

Excitement is growing ahead of the Home & Garden Festival, writes Peter Dowdall.

According to reports, Brexit woes have led to a bloom in 'comfort plants'. In these times of uncertainty gardeners are seeking familiarity. Hannah Stephenson reports on the current bloom in comfort plants.

The Sustainable Seafood Garden hooked the top prize at Bloom yesterday.

A Kerry gardener has won a silver-gilt medal at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show in London.

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They've been abandoning higher ground.

Diarmuid Gavin, Garden designer, in conversation with Hilary Fennell

Peter Dowdall reports from a small scale but gold medal-strewn Chelsea Flower Show ‘17. 

Greening Grey Britain is an RHS initiative to convert dreary grey and tarmacked spaces into beautiful green and vibrant garden areas.

The world of showbusiness collides in London this week with the world of gardening in the form of the colourful explosion that is the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

Videographer Dan Linehan is checking out the sights and sounds of the Chelsea Flower Show in London.

The Chelsea Flower Show is world renowned but did you know this year's festival also featured stone balancing? It's a thing, we swear.

The Chelsea Flower show is kicking off today in London.

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Peter Dowdall on the work that goes on behind Chelsea Flower Show, organised by designer, Tom Harfleet.

An tIonad Glas, The Organic College in Dromcollogher, Co Limerick, holds its Annual Open Day on tomorrow, Sunday July 17 from 2-5pm.

 

Peter Dowdall took in the first few days of the international flower show this week and spent time talking to the some of the best and brightest gardeners and designers in the world of horticulture.

Gary Graham had a dream. The reality is bigger than anyone could have imagined, writes Fiann Ó Núalláin.

It’s the world championship of gardening and Ireland has just won gold.

An Irish gardener has won a gold medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

Members of Britain’s royal family and celebrities were the first to get a glimpse of this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, which features everything from a train carriage as part of a 550sq m planted-up station to a garden of bizarre gadgetry by Diarmuid Gavin which comes to life every 15 minutes.

Irish designer Diarmuid Gavin has backed a black Chelsea Flower Show designer who complained that gardening is filled with “double-barrelled” people.

 

Peter Dowdall first visited Mount Congreve in Co Waterford at age 10, and in an early spring return, he finds he is still lost for words to describe the intense beauty of a world class garden

Herbalist and gardener, Jekka McVicar talks about her Chelsea Flower Show garden to Hannah Stevenson.

Ford has revealed a number of new Ford Vignale vehicles and exclusive customer services that the company says will enhance the upscale product and ownership experience.

The Irish have two hot shots at glory on Main Avenue for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, writes Peter Dowdall.         

It might be time to christen the process of cutting back and cleaning up summer flowering perennials at this time of the year.

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There are many other campanulas species to source,upright and spreading, and many featured prominently in the recent Chelsea Flower Show. 

THE Celtic Tiger has a lot to answer for.

British MPs accepted tickets to events including Wimbledon, Chelsea Flower Show and a Paul McCartney show, all paid for by the powerful tobacco industry, an investigation has revealed.