Dalkey Garden School

21/02/2026

17/06/2025

Valeriana officinalis I had forgotten I had planted out the seedlings

10/05/2025

22/01/2025

Winter Heliotrope Petasites pyrenaicus # killiney hill just coming into flower. Glorious but a very invasive w**d.

22/01/2025

What can you say but doing its job . Fungi at work a great example of how our world feeds us

05/01/2025

Great day to hibernate classes #2025

20/12/2024

Classes beginning next year, beginners , improvers all welcome.
I am now heading into my 12th year and getting excited about all we will be doing. Buying plants, necessary, has become more expensive, but in the class we will sow seeds both vegetable and ornamental, take cuttings and divide larger herbaceous plants. Composting, appreciating our soil, perhaps my favourite.

25/11/2024

Tis the Season for Decorating. Kick start Christmas a creative relaxing way, using Willow as your base ( grown here) and your imagination. Enjoy a seasonal cup of mulled wine - suitable for all and some home made mince pies.

Bring a friend or a special one with you, for a morning of creativity and connection to what our natural world. 
A wreath which represents the Circle of life, will continue for many months, finally, retiring to its natural end, from where it came, completing the circle of life.   Happy Christmas.

11/11/2024

Come and share the Willow which gives so much An early , , sculpture, , and let’s make some Wreaths.
A morning of creativity and joy creating a Christmas decoration which when worn out can return to where it came from- truly the circle of life. All materials

19/06/2024

Was away for 2 weeks and wow what an explosion. Hadn’t time to mow lawn before I left. I t is easy to read what weather was like when away with what plants have blown over. Soil quiet dry, one would think I never mulched! Just back from France where we had lots of rain and was really interesting to see how much mulch is applied to public areas as they know to expect dry spells, I think my blind spot is, that we will have lots of rain, but this is not always so. Garden is open come soon before I tame it!