Styles: Allotment or vegetable plot, Balcony, Coastal, Courtyards and small terraces, Roof terraces, Suburban, Wildlife

Soil types: Chalky

Soil drainage: Well-drained

Soil pH: Alkaline

Light: Partial Shade

Aspect: East

Exposure: Exposed

Hardiness: Indoor heated (H1), Hardy (H4)

Gerard Rooney's garden plan

Plants in Gerard Rooney's garden

Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (Hardy blue-flowered leadwort)

Cynara cardunculus (Globe artichoke)

Pritzelago alpina 'Crystal Carpet' (Chamois cress 'Crystal Carpet' )

Plants Gerard Rooney wants

Lavandula stoechas 'Fathead' (Lavender 'Fathead')

Leucojum autumnale (Autumn snowflake)

Polygonatum x hybridum (Garden Solomon's seal)

Gerard Rooney

About me
I have been interested in Gardening from a young age - working along side my late father back home in Ireland. About ten years ago I got my first garden - for the past four years we have been in our present garden on the outskirts of Brighton which we have developed from a plot of grass with a single pear tree - it continues to be work in progress.

Gardening expertise
Very Keen

Biggest gardening accomplishments
Developing our present garden.

Biggest gardening frustrations
My inabilty to get a good display from Clematis varieties that I have planted in my present garden over the past four years.

The gardening project I am currently working on
Revamp of two borders in our present garden - with the aim of having it ready for a garden open day in June 2011

Gerard Rooney's forum posts

Black Leaves
Mon. 25th April 2011 19:22

Roses in Containers
Sun. 20th March 2011 20:15