The Irish Garden is Ireland’s gardening monthly — written by Irish gardeners for Irish gardeners.
Gardening in Ireland is different. We enjoy a unique climate on the edge of Northern Europe, combining warm winters with cool summers and an adequate rainfall all year round. As a result, we can grow an amazingly broad range of plants from around the world, giving our gardens the distinctive look so much admired by overseas visitors. Irish soils are also unique. They offer opportunities and challenges in equal measure, and understanding soil is the key to successful gardening.
Attitudes to gardening have changed a lot in recent years; for the most part we do not have the same long tradition that exists in other countries and we have shaped the appreciation of the place of gardening in our lives to suit ourselves.
We cater, then, specifically for Irish conditions — although all those who garden in mild climates, or wish that they could do so, will find something to enjoy. The Irish Garden is a general interest magazine, aimed at pleasing the widest possible cross-section of people interested in gardening. It is packed with ‘how-to-do’ information and at the same time has long,well-illustrated articles on good plants and notable Irish gardens.
In September 2006, The Irish Garden joined the Mediateam group. The magazine is now complemented by an extensive website, www.garden.ie
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Gerry Daly
Editor