At the end of a row of redbrick houses in Chapelizod is a garden that’s roughly one third of an acre, wrapping around from front to back, and here a love of growing has blossomed into a flower farm in west Dublin.
Geraldine Scully and her husband, Gerry Conroy, moved here 40 years ago after outgrowing a two-up, two-down on Infirmary Road in Stoneybatter and its “coffin-sized” yard out the back. The dry-soil garden was a dumping ground of building materials after the previous owners built an extension, but the pair have cultivated it over the years and the garden remains in flux.
It was about 12 years ago that Scully decided to take her growing to the next level. It was just after visiting
