As we approach winter, drastic pruning and reduction is needed, says Charlie Wilkins.

THE summer heat brought around 40,000 visitors to one of the country’s biggest home and garden shows — but it was the freezing winter which concerned many gardening enthusiasts.

THERE are green shoots of growth — in more ways than one — at the country’s tallest apartment tower, Cork’s Elysian building.

IT’S known as Millionaire’s Row locally and it’s easy to see why — Kilcoolishal in Cork’s Glounthaune is a secret little enclave on the rim of the city.