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On this week’s episode of the Garden Show, Paul Smyth talks to Tony Breen of the Arboretum. Tony gives advice on plants that work well in shaded areas and how to create shade with plants. He catches up with Colin Jones, Head Gardener at Salterbridge Gardens. His plant of the week is the rose; he […]

On this week's garden show Paul Smyth brings us to Garden Show Ireland, at Antrim Castle Gardens, where he chats to Marie Staunton, Andy McCormack and Niall McCauley, about flower farming and garden priorities at this time of year. Shirley Lanigan, author and deputy editor of

On this week's episode of The Garden Show, Paul speaks to James Connolly of Arboretum, Kilquade about the importance of ponds. He catches up with Robert Miller who celebrates twenty-five years at Altamont Gardens. Paul's plant of the week is the orchid and as ever, he tackles listeners' gardening questions.

In this month's episode of Ours to Protect we are joined by students from Gaelscoil Osraí, Kilkenny, Bunscoil McAuley Rice, Callan, Co. Kilkenny, St. Brigid's National School, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow and School of the Holy Spirit, Kilkenny who bring us into the world of plastics with their questions focusing on the Re-Turn scheme and wanting to understand how effective the scheme is and how it is helping the environment. Through the students' questions we also learn more about landfills and our local civic amenity sites and how we can learn to segregate our waste.

On this week's Garden Show, Paul Smyth brings us on a tour of An Ghairdin Beo, led by Sr Mary Carmody and John McHugh. He talks about vegetable gardening with Ann Synnott of The Arboretum, his plant of the week is the dahlia and, as always, he tackles listener questions.

In the last episode of this series of The Garden Show, Paul Smyth talks to Ciaran Fitzgerald of Johnstown Castle, Wexford, ahead of their garden festival this weekend. He chats to Anne Synnott of the Arboretum about gardening for the future. His plants this week are the fern and the hydrangea and Paul finishes the series by tackling a final batch of listener questions

In our third episode of Ours to Protect we turn our attention to Biodiversity, and opening this month’s programme we hear audio of wildlife and nature recorded from the grounds of Kilkenny College as part of a collaboration with metaLAB Havard Climate Institute for Climate and Sound, which aims to map climate change through sound. […]