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Welcome to Cois Cuain (pronounced coish cuann), a garden as close to the sea as it is possible to get without becoming a boat.
The WALSHS. Mary is the gardener and Bob is the hole digger and rock mover.
With tremendous help from Mother Nature, they have created a garden which, we think, is a little bit different.
In 1992 they got a loan of a JCB, and within a couple of hours what had been an area of gorse and bramble covered wasteland was transformed into something that had potential for BECOMING a garden. Eight years later It has featured on many T.V. gardening programmes in the UK and Ireland.
The garden is very close to the water, in fact the entire garden is within thirty metres of the Atlantic Ocean. They are lucky in that, the part of the Atlantic that touches them has, as it's main feature, the Gulf Stream. This keeps the climate temperate, so that many plants which would not normally grow in this latitude, do very well here.
The main problem for the plants is salt-laden spray. During Winter gales the spray is blown over the garden leaving many plants in a fairly sorry state. Most of them recover from this attempt at horticultural homicide. In any case, they do not get too many severe gales.
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