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Peter Dowdall: What we can do every day to improve the planet

Ahead of the Irish Examiner sustainability event in the Glucksman on May 28, award-winning gardener Peter Dowdall explains why green really is an everyday colour

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Great yellow bumblebee and Atlantic salmon among endangered species in Ireland
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Vinegar, as opposed to urine, is the best way to treat a jellyfish sting.

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Vintage view: Collecting and pinning
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Love is like a butterfly, as Kya deLongchamps derides the age old and still popular practise of traditional collecting and pinning.

Sat, 13 May, 2017

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ON this sunny September day, the flowers on the sedum plants in the garden have, I think, reddened more since I visited them this morning, and the insects visiting them have increased three-fold.

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