of gardeners. Canada has long had such a program at the Niagara Falls Parks Commission’s School of Horticulture. Such training programs at Kew, Edinburgh, Dublin, and the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley have produced many able gardeners for supervisory positions in many countries....
This wondrous multiplicity of tomato-kind was brought home to me a couple of years ago when I visited the Totally Terrific Tomato Festival at Rolestown Garden Centre in north county Dublin. The event was the brainchild of Ireland’s “Tomato Queen”, Nicky Kyle, one of this country’s first...
Facsimile of folio 53 of the Book of Leinster, now in the library of Trinity College Dublin. Image source. I think the idea of something as phenomenally powerful as a god, especially in the sense of the pre-Christian deities with whom I’m most familiar, is a fascinating subject and so...
Facsimile of folio 53 of the Book of Leinster, now in the library of Trinity College Dublin. Image source. I think the idea of something as phenomenally powerful as a god, especially in the sense of the pre-Christian deities with whom I’m most familiar, is a fascinating subject and so...