It's a garden paradise

SPRING is in the air, but it is also underfoot at Sundale House a family home on exceptional gardens.

Walk the two acres of lawns at the 2.5 acre property and you actually notice the bounce in the grass: the lawns are top-notch, golf course standard. And, the planting and soft and hard landscaping are on a par, too.

If the maxim "You are closer to God in a garden than anywhere else on earth," is true, then viewers with soul will find Sundale close to heavenly. Set just eight miles west of Cork city at Ballinhassig, on a now by-passed stretch of road, and bounded by a deep wooded river gorge that turns to winter cataracts, the four-bed extended home has exemplary grounds. These include a hard-surface tennis court for disportment, water features for soothing sounds, and planting for year-round colour and pleasure.