Up the garden path at the West Cork Garden Trail

Peter Dowdall says the West Cork Garden Trail offers inspiring examples of community work

IT’S THE flower of West Cork, isn’t it? Well, actually, no, most fuchsias, named after botanist Leonhart Fuchs in the 1800s, are native to Central and South America.

The particular variety which calls much of the South West of Ireland home is a species called magellanica.