Garden of earthly delight

Tommy Barker is seduced by this picturesque property near the city.

'HERE'S one we prepared earlier' - that's the attraction and lure for those seriously into their gardens, but who aren't prepared to start from scratch or a bare site.

Twenty years and more of passionate gardening attention and serious physical graft has gone into the grounds of Sundale House, an extended family bungalow up for sale on almost 2.5 acres of grounds a few miles west of Cork city in Ballinhassig.