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High country gardener Jan Taylor and the arches formed by hornbeam trained up deer fence posts; the pot is encircled with Hebe pinguifolia.
Among Jan Taylor’s favourite garden tools (after the pruning saw) is her four-wheel farm bike, a Can-Am Defender in distinctive pink camouflage livery. “It’s great for carting garden stuff away, a lot safer on these hills than a truck and the tray is big enough for the dogs.” That about sums up where and how she lives too, on a high country station in Canterbury 450m above sea level, where mountains, rivers and winds from all quarters, throw challenges aplenty at a gardener.
âWe had the plans for the garden before we had the plans for the house,â says Eileen Gibbons, of her home tucked away at the end of the tree lined cul-de-sac off Convent Road in Delgany. The 0.9 acre site is now laden with trees and shrubs with year round colour, especially from acidic loving rhododendron, camellia, japonica and hydrangea âWe planted every single tree, shrub and flower here, and specifically designed the patio to the rear, to look over the gardensâ says Gibbons.
The Gibbons family purchased the site â now accessed by a private walled entrance with electric gates â when it had full planning permission, but decided against the original plans. âWe wanted to put in our own design with English redbrick and a Rosemary (clay) tiled roof, but had to fight tooth and nail, so it ended up with An Bord Pleanála. It was a much sounder choice environmentally â as we have never had to paint the house â and now there are houses in
Mary Robinson s former home in the heart of Ranelagh for €4 5m
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It once used to be that the phrase “all talk, no action” was a class of insult. But not today. There’s little action can be taken in level-five lockdown, and we’ve become a world of talkers. Elbows on the table, phone on speaker.
One person I phone a bit is a woman called Norrie Lalor. We usually talk about gardens, but over recent weeks that talk has grown sort of pointedly aimed at spring. The best season.
“I’m 90 now, and this will be the second spring I’ve missed. You’re young,” she tells me (though I’m not), “but I don’t know how many springs I have left.”
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