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Gardening Advice & Tips for Irish Gardeners
There are many wild birds found throughout Ireland and many of these birds are common in back gardens across the country. It is possible to attract these wild birds into your garden with the different range of bird food available. Today on the Garden Shop we want to give you a simple...
Just because the summer is over doesn’t mean gardening stops too! Ok, the weather has certainly turned and night time temperatures are down to about 4 degrees but the work in the garden continues in earnest. While autumn is a time of harvest, it can also be a time of sowing as there are...
Well the wait is over and the results are in! Well done to Portarlington for another year of hard work and dedication to improve the look and quality of the town in which we live. The efforts of the community and the committee members have certainly paid off as we have again raised the...
Easy to grow bulbs Daffodils or Narcissus are certainly top of the list of easy to grow bulbs, so long as you follow the simple instructions listed on this website, then you are quarantined an abundance to tall yellow trumpet flowers each spring. Daffodils are never attacked by...
Another week and another project for the garden, but this one is surely the most rewarding! Taking cuttings of plants is not only simple but it also saves you money and means you get more of the plants that you know grow well in your soil and look great in your garden. Lavender can be a hit and...
Really and truly mid summer’s day should be a day for resting and relaxing in the garden. It should be a day where we can all sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labour. Because, of course, by now you have sown your summer vegetables, you have weeded your herbaceous borders and...
When I heard the June had been the wettest month on record I breathe a sigh of relief. This might seem strange, but really, having gone through such a miserable month and then being told that; ok, ‘that’s the worst it has ever been’, well, then I can at least assume that things can only get...
As we approach midsummer and height of the gardening season, it may be time to pay particular attention to your hanging basket and window boxes. I think the biggest concern surrounding container gardening is water and the lack of it, and so a regular watering schedule should is needed to...
We are all too familiar with the fleeting appearance that the cherry blossom makes in spring; 2 short weeks of blooms, only to be removed by the first sight of a windy day. Such plants can make gardening seem a short lived pleasure, but there are, many hard working plants that continue to churn...
Portarlington 2012 Spring Clean on RTE's Dirty Old Towns with Diarmuid Gavin. We at The Garden Shop have been involved with the Portarlington Tidy Towns for many years and this year Portarlington was chosen to take part in the RTE programme, Dirty Old Towns with Diarmuid Gavin. To...
