Gavin keeps his feet on the ground at launch of planned garden for homeless

Celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin was very much down to earth for the launch of a community project to build an inner-city garden for homeless people in Dublin yesterday.

Gavin joined 24 second-year students from Larkin Community College at Dublin Simon’s homeless shelter in Sean McDermott St to discuss plans for an urban garden at the back of the building.

However, the controversial gardener, who always likes to plough his own furrow, was not digging any holes for himself in the ongoing Sky Garden row yesterday.