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Urban Gardening in Dublin

Soil and fertilisers

Hand tools

Protection

Watering

Perennials

The soil beneath your feet is your most precious resource in the garden: look after it, and your plants thrive.&nbsp;There&#39;s a huge range of bagged composts, soil improvers and fertilisers in our garden centre to keep&nbsp;container plants happy and your soil in tip-top health.

Multipurpose compost is perfect for container-grown bedding, cuttings and potting on. In our garden centre&nbsp;you&#39;ll find environmentally-friendly peat-free and peat-reduced composts, and composts with added fertiliser&nbsp;and water-retaining gels - great for thirsty hanging baskets.

Specialist composts are tailor-made for the needs of plants from citrus to roses. You&#39;ll also find soil-based&nbsp;composts in our garden centre for permanent container planting, ericaceous composts for lime-hating plants&nbsp;and fine-grade seed composts for sowing.

Soil improvers like farmyard manure and soil conditioner&nbsp;beef up poorer soils to keep plants growing&nbsp;strongly. Mix with your soil when planting and use to mulch the surface to suppress weeds and hold in&nbsp;moisture.

Fertilisers include liquid feeds such as liquid seaweed and tomato feed to encourage flowering and fruiting.&nbsp;Add slow-release fertilisers such as fish, blood &amp; bone&nbsp;to planting holes and mix granular feeds into potting composts&nbsp;for feed-and-go convenience.

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Tools are a gardener&#39;s best friend &ndash; and top of the list come your trusty hand tools, pressed into daily service&nbsp;for everything from pruning to digging to sowing to weeding.

In our garden centre you&#39;ll find the basic kit for starting out: border spades and forks to turn your soil, hand&nbsp;tools for close-up weeding and secateurs for pruning, trimming and dead-heading.

Pruning tools are an essential part of a gardener&#39;s armoury: in our garden centre you&#39;ll find loppers for&nbsp;thicker branches or if you&#39;re really getting stuck in, pruning saws and bowsaws for the big jobs. Plus we have&nbsp;specialist weeding tools for winkling weeds out of the toughest corners; garden knives for everything from&nbsp;cutting string to taking cuttings; and everything you could need by way of dibbers, brooms and bulb planters.

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A little protection for your plants in extreme weather or when pests and diseases threaten can be the&nbsp;difference between success and abject failure. There's a comprehensive armoury of defences against the&nbsp;main threats to your plants available in our garden centre in %locations%.
Frosty weather: in our garden centre you'll find horticultural fleece both on the roll and in handy packets.&nbsp;Throwing a couple of layers over tender plants like potatoes when frost threatens can be enough to see them&nbsp;through. We also stock hessian sheets to tuck around thick straw for protecting tender palms, gingers and&nbsp;bananas.
Gales and rain: polythene cloches, available off the peg in our garden centre, prevent your plants from&nbsp;getting waterlogged or shredded by wind. Our easy-to-construct cold frames also keep the weather off&nbsp;vulnerable young plants and seedlings.
Pests: stretch fine-gauge netting, also available in our garden centre, over a framework to keep birds from&nbsp;stealing your berries. Netting cloches over cabbages and sprouts also keep pigeons at bay. There are a&nbsp;range of other options for warding off all sorts of pests in our garden centre, from biological controls to slug&nbsp;barriers and insecticidal sprays.
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In these days of unpredictable weather a drought is never far away, so kit yourself out to keep your plants&nbsp;going through even the driest summer from the wide range of watering equipment in our garden centre.&nbsp;Here's what you'll need to make sure your plants need never go thirsty again.
Watering cans are useful all year, but especially if you're in an area subject to a hosepipe ban. Larger 10-&nbsp;litre and 5-litre cans keep the garden going, while small 1-litre cans are ideal for seedlings and houseplants.
Water butts store rainwater so you don't have to use up precious tap water. These days they come in a wide&nbsp;range of designs: connect them together to double your storage capacity.
Hoses and attachments make watering easy, with everything from spray guns to sprinklers in our range.&nbsp;Leaky hoses conserve water, too: lay them alongside your plants to deliver water where it's needed.
Automated watering systems free you from watering chores to enjoy your garden. Connect dripper&nbsp;systems via a hose to a timer, set to water whenever you want without you having to lift a finger.
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The real heart-stopping, breathtaking beauty of a garden comes from that most easy-going of all the plant&nbsp;groups: the perennials, generous, free-flowering plants which die down each winter only to bubble up again&nbsp;from spring, peaking in midsummer with a fireworks display of flowers.

Pack your garden with perennials from the huge selection in our garden centre and you&#39;ll have something in&nbsp;flower for every week of the year. Here are a few tips to help you choose:

Visit the garden centre often as we have different perennials in stock according to the season. Choose whatever takes your fancy each month for really long-lasting display.

Cut perennials back after flowering and they&#39;ll often give you a second flush of flowers. You&#39;ll find&nbsp;secateurs for the job in our garden centre.

Plant the right plant in the right place: there are perennials for every spot in your garden, whether it&#39;s&nbsp;shady, sunny, dry or damp. Ask our garden centre staff for help if you&#39;re not sure which to choose.

Plant in threes or fives for greatest impact: drifts or groups of the same plant really catch your eye and&nbsp;demand to be noticed.

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Most gardens have a shady spot: a north-facing wall, perhaps, or under a tree, or in the shadow of a nearby building. Learn to love your shade: you'll find a world of new plants opens up, and you get a cool, pleasant nook to sit out of the heat of the day: perfect for enjoying an iced drink after

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