Leonie Cornelius Design

Leonie Cornelius Design Leonie Cornelius designs spaces that are beautiful and soulful.

Rooted in a deep connection to nature and informed by a background in interior architecture, her gardens are immersive, healing experiences of wild joy.

31/07/2026

Anyone else feel this immense sense of gratitude for rain right now? With the world experiencing such frightening levels of drought and fires, it’s definitely shifted my own experience of the West of Ireland rain fundamentally.

I love the sound of it on the polytunnel. One of my favourite corners in the garden framed by loads of scented herbs, olives, wisteria overhead and the gorgeous Totally Tangerine Dahlias.
Dreamy.

Today is the day. So looking forward to welcoming the participants of our Designing a Garden for Nourishment and Wellbei...
25/07/2026

Today is the day. So looking forward to welcoming the participants of our Designing a Garden for Nourishment and Wellbeing workshop at TJ Maher in Wicklow. Can’t wait to see what we all dream up together.

Thank you very much for including me in this gorgeous feature in today’s Irish times magazine. Some gorgeous stories al...
18/07/2026

Thank you very much for including me in this gorgeous feature in today’s Irish times magazine. Some gorgeous stories all across Ireland!

We were asked to talk a little bit about our locality and where we like to hang out, eat and spend time. There are so many incredible places in County Leitrim, which I am fond of and in the magazine I got to mention a few of them.

Places like The Organic Centre in Rossinver, Stanford Village Inn and The Village Tea Rooms in Dromahair, at the W8 Village in Manorhamilton, Honestly in Carrick on Shannon and more. We also have some of the most incredible locations for walks including the stairway to heaven at O’Rourke’s Table.

Great to read the other featured people’s favourite places too! A lovely glimpse into what makes their localities special to them.

15/06/2026

Over the past year is my morning routine has become to go out to the garden and to appreciate what has changed from the previous days. Which flower has emerged from its bud, the weather and how the garden is responding to it and the sense of season the garden is in at that particular time.

It’s such an amazing thing when you start doing it as a morning routine because you really start to slow down and notice the little things. The scent of that particular day which is never the same as the day before, the movement in the air of all the little insects dancing around, the shaping of berries on trees which we used to be Flowers only last week….

And even by just taking those few moments you become witness to so many magical in between moments like this bee landing on the beautiful Cistus shrub from last year’s Bloom Garden.

It’s amazing how much just taking that little time before you launch yourself into the week or the day plugs you back in to yourself and to nature on a greater whole.

and while we’re on the topic, isn’t the flower on the shrub just absolutely gorgeous? Paperthin like silk and creased like it needs an iron. Absolute perfection.

Hope you get to find a wild moment for yourself today too, happy monday. 🐝
Leonie

How gorgeous is this? A while ago I had the absolute pleasure of helping the incredible Aoife McNamara plant her front a...
31/05/2026

How gorgeous is this? A while ago I had the absolute pleasure of helping the incredible Aoife McNamara plant her front and back gardens at her cottage in Adare, County Limerick.

This is where her beautiful brand has its shop and where she sells her incredible collections. (Love my jumper so much!)

The front entrance to the shop was planted in a more traditional way with lots of colour and romantic roses spelling across the garden but this back section which a big window faces out at was sowed up with glorious wildflowers ….and what a result!

We spent a day preparing the ground, shovelling ginormous amounts of soil (after dealing with some logistical issues ….massive thank you to Aoife‘s dad who was a lifesaver- it takes a village I mean it!) and then sowing some lovely seeds from the company connecting to nature.

What a result! Isn’t this just the most perfect backdrop for Aoife‘s colourful creations? Dreamy. So incredible when something comes together so perfectly. Thank you for trusting the wild vision lovely lady! ###

The first time I came across Feebee Foran’s work it was her products I was hooked. Forager.ie is a 100% natural skincare...
31/05/2026

The first time I came across Feebee Foran’s work it was her products I was hooked. Forager.ie is a 100% natural skincare brand built entirely on the medicine of wild Irish plants and weeds, and it is absolutely incredible. But then you discover the woman behind it and you realise the products are just the beginning.

Feebee is a herbalist, a forager, Ireland AM’s resident plant expert, and someone who has spent years helping people see the abundance that is already growing around them. In hedgerows, in ditches, in their own back gardens. Plants that heal, that nourish, that connect us to this landscape in a way that nothing else quite does.
She’s also doing some very cool work on a community garden, which you have to check out! Superwoman!

Her talk on Monday is called Magic and Medicine with Feebee. The ancient knowledge of wild plants, what they can do, and how to bring that wisdom into everyday life. So excited about this one!

3:25pm on the Garden Stage, Monday 1st June. Come and find us.
ie

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