Why this book helps us open a fresh chapter in the garden

The newly published 'An Irish Nature Year' keeps Irish Examiner gardening columnist Peter Dowdall turning the pages  

Nature is “all around us. We don’t have to be walking in the countryside or wandering along a beach.

“It is there even in the built-up corners of cities. It is in the ivy-leaved toadflax tumbling from a wall crevice, in the chatter of house sparrows sheltering in a neglected hedge, in the clouds of ants appearing mysteriously on a still, summer afternoon. Nature is a constant friend, but so omnipresent that we often forget to admire it and be thankful for its existence.”