Ciarán de Buitléar

You can just hear the birds, right?

You allow that, yeah?

Sure we do.

Now the kids maybe don't like them, but we tell them to avoid them.

But they're really good for butterflies, which...

are good for caterpillars which are food for birds which all feeds into the cycle here so we let them grow maybe not in the bed where we're growing our onions yeah but we let them grow on on the margins of the garden and in fact in large sections of the garden they're full of nettles and then there's bluebells and as you said there's cow slips yeah the butterflies tell me some of the species you get

But we do get what you might call the cabbage white, which we do keep off our cabbages with netting, so we don't try to kill them.

We get the red admiral butterfly, and we get peacock butterflies.

Those are probably the only ones I know, but I've seen blue ones and orange ones, and I'm not an expert on insects, so I couldn't tell you what they are, but there are lots of different kinds here.

It's unbelievable.

It's like being in the Mediterranean sometimes sitting here in Stamullan on the coast of Ireland.

The heat from the sun here, it's different from outside.

I don't know.

It could be something in my head.

Perhaps you're feeling it too.

Well, I can feel it now.

Absolutely.

And if you go up beside that wall, you get the heat there.

It's phenomenal.

What do the locals think of this garden?