When last offered for sale, No 2 Springfort had a €750k guide. It’s now guided at €445,000 and is well worth viewing.

This pair of fine Georgian garden seats are described by Lynes and Lynes as coming from the estate of a recently deceased garden expert.

The home of the late gardener and artist Brian Cross, Lakemount, is an Eden to be enjoyed and admired, writes Tommy Barker.

Tommy Barker says Ashdene’s a recultivated period beauty.

Weighing in at an impressive 4,000 sq ft, this is among the best Rochestown has to offer, writes Tommy Barker.

Set in a small, well-maintained scheme, this ideal family home has lots to offer, says Tommy Barker.

Glounthaune, Co Cork €695,000

The Plant Fair, which take place on Sunday September, 14 at Fota House, will be hosted by the Irish Specialist Nursery Association. 

Follow the garden trail this spring, says Peter Dowdall and you will come across sublime beauties, like Lakemount, the life’s work of the Cross family.

* Kanturk Flower and Garden Club will meet on Wednesday May 14 at 8.00pm with guest speaker Rachel Budd, Organic Horticulturalist. Everyone welcome, €5 with refreshments served.

THERE aren’t very many houses in developments as large, as good, and on as good grounds, as Fernwood — this Cois Chuain home is outstanding in its field.

OLD YOUGHAL ROAD, CORK €299,000

A stunning Victorian home is back on the market after 27 years care. Tommy Barker finds some divine inspiration in the Old Rectory.

Distinctive features ensure Midleton property stands out from the crowd, writes Trish Dromey

* Come Flower With Me is the title of a spring flower demonstration by Robin Waistell in The Maryborough Hotel and Spa on Thursday next at 8pm. Creative and inspirational, he will deliver a fast-paced demonstration designed to encourage and enthuse his audience.

An unerring eye for restoration has ensured this Famine era home on 30 acres stands out from the crowd, writes Tommy Barker

WE HAD a terrific day last Saturday as the winners of the Slow Food Grandmothers Day Irish Examiner Competition — six grandchildren, four grannies and a couple of mums — arrived to enjoy their prize, a day at the Ballymaloe Cookery School and Gardens.

EXTENDED by its owners, who bought it new from highly-regarded Lane Brothers builders, number 44, Cois Chuain is a family-sized trading-up option just east of Cork city.

WHETHER or not 1,200 new homes planned for the Glanmire area of Cork come to pass in the medium or in longer term, the big family home, Ashbrooke House, will remain outstanding in its is own field in any case, on its really great gardens.

GOOD and all as the family home Ashbrooke House, near Glanmire, Co Cork, is, it is the gardens that should seal a deal.

WHAT do you do if you have a great site for a house, but it comes without a view? Simple. You create your own view.

BACK on the market after a period in rental use, and all freshened up as well, is the detached, 2,000 sq ft Montenotte Cork home, number two, Springfort.

WHILE it’s not Abingdon, the exclusive Dublin estate, Woodborough, in the little village of Tower, Co Cork is another gated scheme.

THEY built ‘em big in the poshly-named Hilton, back in the early 1980s, and this non-Paris Hilton example is a sizeable southern Ireland home of 3,500 sq ft of living and sleeping space, on a substantial half acre suburban site.

Tommy Barker is buttered up by a period home that is warm and welcoming.