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Schoolchildren and volunteers across Dublin are getting involved in an initiative to plant more indigenous trees through circular forestry.

Choco Sun is an easy-growing sunflower that is bushy and compact. Helen Chesnut Tickled Pink is a climbing (or cascading) petunia with large, dark pink flowers. It is joined this year by Tickled Blush, a pale pink petunia with a similar habit. Helen Chesnut An escarole called Natacha produces an abundance of leaves on heads with creamy, blanched hearts. Helen Chesnut Among the seed and garden catalogues that I’ve used regularly, over many years, one of the most engaging is from T&T Seeds....

Calendulas bring colourful notes to vegetable garden plots. They are very hardy. These plants are blooming at the end of November. Helen Chesnut Another beautiful late autumn garden flower is Nerine, a South African plant that grows from a bulb and thrives in warm, sunny, well-drained sites. Helen Chesnut This late fall season has been even more heavily garden and plant centred than usual. First, there’s my budding re-addiction to indoor plants. It’s become nearly impossible to pass by a...