Gareth Austin

You may be one of them gardeners who talks away to themselves when you’re tending to your plants, maybe you…

I love snowdrops… I mean really love snowdrops – and not just from a gardening point of view, for me…

January means starting a new calendar, and one of the first things you do is flick through the pictures and…

Cold weather is good for plants. Although we tend to think about cold as being destructive or as being a…

This week I was in Lissellan estate near Clonakilty in Cork, and within the sprawling estate there was a beech…

I’ve long suggested that the off-season is a great time to visit ornamental gardens. Visit gardens in the summer surely,…

Currently I’m down in Cork city, and when here I’m trying to absorb as much of the fabulous Horticulture which…

This year the Autumn colours on the trees, shrubs and plants in the garden has rarely been bettered, the combination…

The phrase ‘Putting the garden to bed for the winter’, ‘Giving everything a cut back’, ‘Cutting everything back’ are all…

The invasive weed Fallopia Japonica, otherwise known as Japanese Knotweed, has made some serious headlines over the past few years,…

This week Donegal Daily’s gardening columnist Gareth Austin explains that growing garlic is a lot easier than you might think!…

This past week I was out and about visiting gardens and giving consultations on everything from choosing plants for wet…

One of the problems facing many gardeners at this time of year is how long do you persevere with the…

This week Donegal Daily’s Gardening columnist Gareth Austin discusses forgotten pastime of blackberry picking and how we can reap the…

Now is the time to starting taking cuttings (or as we call them here ‘Slips’) from many of our favourite…

There are a number of fruits and vegetables we buy based on their name. At this time of year the…

No, we’re not just talking about sitting and eating chocolate in the garden, although this is a great thing to…

It’s not just on Bake Off where soggy bottoms can be a problem, anyone trying to grow Courgettes can suffer…

Geraniums to flower in the garden year after year are Geraniums. Geraniums which are for the pots, hanging baskets and…

Flowering plants use their flowers as an advertisement to attract pollinators, who help the plant to achieve its goal in…