Rosie Maye, aka The Insomniac Gardener, has been gardening the three acres around her home near Slane, Co. Meath for over 20 years.  She has created a woodland garden, an ornamental meadow and a Mediterranean courtyard among the ruins of old farm buildings. Rosie writes about gardening in the Irish Garden as well producing a [...]

" The Schachen Alpine Garden was opened in 1901 as an outstation of the Munich Botanic Garden and and is one of the oldest alpine gardens in the Alps.  Situated on the northern flanks of the Wetterstein Range, above the Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the garden has the ideal combination of a cool, moist summer and snow-covered winter [...]