Ciarán de Buitléar

We have a grill over it to stop any dogs or kids from falling in.

And that will be filled with water naturally.

The rain will fill it up and hopefully more wildlife will come in and use that.

The frogs, the insects, all those.

Allowed the ivy, yes.

Against much advice, because people seem to not like ivy, but I think ivy is great.

It covers the wall.

So what I think is we can just trim it back if it gets too big.

And we have fruit on the same wall, and they cohabit the wall quite well.

We are.

We're about a mile from the sea, so it's a very temperate climate here.

It's a fabulous place to grow plants and it's a fabulous place for wildlife.

But even when you come into the garden, I think it has its own weather because the walls enclose the space and they hold the heat in and keep the wind away.

And that in itself, sometimes the kids from the primary school will come up

organised by the teachers of course and they look around and it's just they learn so much here that can't be really taught in the classroom because when you see it and you feel it and you feel the breeze go down when you come into the garden and you go into the greenhouse you feel the temperature and the complete lack of wind then you tell the kids the plants grow very well in here because it's not windy and it's much warmer and they

They know it and they see it and it goes in, really registers with them.

And what have you learned from your time here?

I've learned an awful lot here.

I've learned that...

Nature can come in if we just let it, we just allow it.