Go visiting if you want to be a good gardener

Peter Dowdall kicks off this year's Open Gardens for Marymount trail with a visit to a Carrignavar stunner

THE trail of Open Gardens for Marymount Hospice is in full swing at the moment and this weekend it’s the chance to visit the creation of the man from Mushera mountain and his wife who hails from Castlelyons.

Dromboy Gardens — the home of Maurice and Gertie O Donoghue — is in neither townland, but actually in Carrignavar where they settled over 40 years ago, roughly midway between their two homeplaces.