The Wexford woman was the youngest landscape gardener to win gold at Chelsea and is a champion of re-wilding
Though it’s a good way away yet, as Doolough Lodge is about to undergo renovations, plans for a garden are currently on the table. I was fortunate to catch up with the wonderful Mary Reynolds, who is up here in northAs the youngest contestant to win a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show for her design, titled Tearmann sí – A Celtic Sanctuary, Reynolds, aged just 27 in 2002, was catapulted on to the world stage of landscape design.
‘I feel that it is possible to become Irish in a way it would never be possible to become German or to become Japanese’Oscars 2024 red carpet: Cillian Murphy and Margot Robbie in Versace as classy black gowns win the night Moving away from chemicals, fertiliser and toxic sprays, Reynolds, the daughter of a soil scientist, sees gardeners as conservationists, and gardens themselves as hosts to help combat a natural world that has been poisoned: “We have removed the native community of plants, which are the foundation stone of all life on earth, and replaced them with prettier ones, which are not helpful at all to ecosystems.
So how can we ARK our gardens? “You can start by planting a window sill,” says Reynolds, “while our insects might still feed on non-native plants, they have nowhere to lay eggs, and remember larvae is the foodstuff for 70 per cent of our birds.”
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