NATURE Creating a bog garden is easy and endlessly rewarding, with plants like yellow flag iris, flowering rush, marsh marigold and ragged robin
Heaven is a bog garden
Outdoor Living
Keel and the slow reveal
NATURE John Shelley brings some reluctant tourists to Achill, and the island’s wild charms wins them over
Create a life-giving garden oases
NATURE Pat Fahy on how making a wildlife pond is a truly rewarding autumn project, and some advice on how to go about it
The red in the green
NATURE John Shelley encounters a young red deer calf and its mother while fishing at the Owenwee River
Westport school gets new wildlife pond
NATURE The spirit of volunteerism and a can-do attitude has seen the construction of a big wildlife pond at Westport’s Rice College
For the love of fuchsia
NATURE A familiar roadside sight, Fuchsia was first brought to Ireland by Victorian plant collectors, writes John Shelley
Bombing unicorns’ promises of rainbows
NATURE Pat Fahy on some seed-bomb vendors’ exaggerated claims and how to make your own wildflower seed bombs
Roach a threat to our game fisheries
NATURE Voracious, invasive non-native roach are depriving juvenile trout and salmon of the food they need
The East comes west
OUTDOOR LIVING Sonia Kelly reports on a Louisburgh man’s determination to set up an asparagus farm in the west of Ireland
Bring on the butterflies
NATURE Pat Fahy on wonder-inducing butterflies and how to attract them into your patch
The charm of our elegant orchids
NATURE The recent rain has brought to life our wild orchids, and John Shelley marvels at two kinds he finds locally