Anna Pavord: 'There is a special joy to be found in exploring the lush gardens of Ireland'

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I've just got back from Ireland where I was one of the speakers at the Garden Festival in Carlow. It runs every year from late July to early August, but Carlow is new territory for me and I did not know either of the gardens I went to. The first was Sheila Reeves-Smyth's place at Hardymount in Tullow, where you are welcomed in by a stupendous beech tree on one side and an equally monumental sweet chestnut – one of the biggest in the country – on the other.












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