Outdoor Living

GARDENING Frank Steffens, head gardener at Drimbawn Garden, on a recent disease affecting box hedges and plants

NATURE A red deer stag bellows to a rut rival in the darkness, just feet from an awe-struck Michael Kingdon

NATURE Michael Kingdon on the uphill battle faced by our tiny pygmy shrew since its loutish larger cousin’s arrival to these shores

GARDENING In the first of a new gardening series, Eriko Uehara Hopkinson of the Clew Bay Garden Trail reflects on her garden and what it means to her

COMMUNITY The proceeds of sales the 2022 Clew Bay Garden Trail calendar will go to the Mayo Roscommon Hospice

NATURE Michael Kingdon’s foraging leads to several encounters with wild things, and a hungry young dinner guest

NATURE Michael Kingdon calls in the cavalry after a family of wasps at his house gets out of hand

NATURE Mayo’s swift population is on the rise thanks to the efforts of Swift Conservation Mayo’s next-box projects in schools and elsewhere

NATURE Michael Kingdon ponders on the dramatic decrease in moths, once so plenty in Mayo’s nightscape

NATURE Westport Tidy Towns Biodiversity Officer takes a look at the vegetation on the Mall river in Westport