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Permaculture for gardens is about designing your garden to fit your lifestyle at the same time as getting as much out of the garden as possible and, an added bonus, reducing your environmental impact. At Green Matters we look to nature for inspiration and bring those ideas to bear to design a garden for you that is beautiful, fun, low-maintenance, eco-friendly, affordable and productive. Whether y

ou have a small patio or a small-holding, a tiny terrace or an ample acreage, contact Janet and let her turn your place into a veritable Garden of Eden

Mulching works .... thick straw mulch around courgettes and sweet corn from when they were transplanted as seedlings. W...
21/07/2018

Mulching works .... thick straw mulch around courgettes and sweet corn from when they were transplanted as seedlings. Watered sweetcorn once with few watercans of grey water from the sink. Courgettes not watered at all but still producing lots ... too many!

My husband has been clearing a half acre of spruce that was ugly and growing up in front of our view for the path few ye...
19/03/2018

My husband has been clearing a half acre of spruce that was ugly and growing up in front of our view for the path few years. First picture shows the barren understorey under the spruce. Alders planted as a windbreak from the sea are now well established. So this spring 100 Hawthorn, Rowan, Swedish Whitebeam, Wild Pear and a mixed shrubby willows went in. Focus is to create a great bird habitat with small trees. Loads of bluebells and foxglove are now showing in the areas cleared last year. last pictures are what we are aiming for.

A long time in the planning and build my patio of valentia slate and a clover lawn (also full of nice daisies, wild cran...
18/08/2017

A long time in the planning and build my patio of valentia slate and a clover lawn (also full of nice daisies, wild cranesbill; and not so wanted grass, purslane, docks). Surrounded by Pictorialmeadows classic flower mix. Poppies catch the evening sun and even give a splash of colour on a seriously wet morning. By the way - Valentia slate looks its best in the rain - so a great choice for an Irish garden.

Foxgloves are looking great in the roadside verges at the moment - on the coast road near me I was very surprised to see...
29/05/2017

Foxgloves are looking great in the roadside verges at the moment - on the coast road near me I was very surprised to see a white one. You get a huge flush of foxgloves after the ground has been disturbed like this group in Derreen gardens where some trees had been cleared. The seeds apparently last for hundreds of years in the ground and then germinate when they get the chance.

White foxglove in the wild - in the verge near the sea
29/05/2017

White foxglove in the wild - in the verge near the sea

The tulips were flowering on St Patricks Day and the Poached Egg plants are only flowering now. The best laid plans of ...
06/05/2017

The tulips were flowering on St Patricks Day and the Poached Egg plants are only flowering now. The best laid plans of gardening foiled by one being early and one being late! Next year I'll go for a later variety of tulip. But the bees love the Poached eggs (Limnanthes douglasii)

The swallows arrived here in Lauragh a couple of days ago... spring is in full swing. Forget-me-nots self-seeded in a g...
10/04/2017

The swallows arrived here in Lauragh a couple of days ago... spring is in full swing. Forget-me-nots self-seeded in a garden path; Kale in vivid yellow flower - feeding the bees now after a winter feeding us; primroses on the path to the back door; blackthorn & Clematis montana on the way to the woodshed; and a pot of delicate yellow daffodils by the front door

Tulips underplanted with poached egg plants which will flower soon
17/03/2017

Tulips underplanted with poached egg plants which will flower soon

October harvest. Szechuan pepper tree fruiting for first time; Rose hips, sweet corn (it must have been a warm summer),...
15/10/2016

October harvest. Szechuan pepper tree fruiting for first time; Rose hips, sweet corn (it must have been a warm summer), autumn raspberries and 1 apple (storm Imogen ruined the blossom in the spring) but it sure tasted good.

Firing up the Hot tub by the sea
25/06/2016

Firing up the Hot tub by the sea

First new potatoes of the year (Casablanca) with parsley, salad and sugar snap peas from the garden and mackeral caught...
11/06/2016

First new potatoes of the year (Casablanca) with parsley, salad and sugar snap peas from the garden and mackeral caught by my better half this afternoon.

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