Spring 2008

The following is a selection of recent articles written about the Dillon Garden by various gardening journalists.

• Axis Power - Catherine Fitzgerald

  A garden designer, Helen Dillon, has reinvented her Dublin garden - replacing the lawn with a striking, modern canal.
  From House and Garden, May 2002.

• Marriage of Minds - and Green Fingers - Dermot O'Neill

  The name Helen Dillon is well known, even outside gardening circles. She is Ireland's gardening ambassador, with a great reputation abroad. But behind the successful gardener there is a supportive partner...
  From The SundayTimes

• Make Light of Winter's Dark Shadow - Helen Dillon

  The garden is littered with tea-cups abandoned in icy showers. Muddy trails lead along the paths, up the steps to the front door, and through the house to the phone. Leaves swirl fitfully, undecided where to settle. Hands are chapped...
  From Helen Dillon on Gardening

• Helen's Heaven - Robin Lane Fox

  Surrounding Helen Dillon's elegant 1830s house in Dublin are effervescent borders of pinks, reds and blues. As Robin Lane Fox discovers, hers is a garden painted with bold artistry and a plantsman's feel for harmony and balance.
  From the Gardens Illustrated , July/August, 2000

• How does her garden grow? - Eileen Battersby

  Gardening, once seen in Ireland as a fuddy-duddy pursuit, is now trendy, and 'okay to do', says Helen Dillon, who is to be honoured by the Royal Horticultural Society in June. Eileen Battersby tours the glories of the Dillon garden and can't resist running her fingers through the compost
  From the Irish Times, 20 January, 2000