About me
I’m Jane Powers, a garden writer and photographer living in Ireland. I am the gardening correspondent for the Sunday Times in Ireland. My first book, The Living Garden: a place that works with nature, was published in April 2011 by Frances Lincoln.
I am now working on a second book, a huge and all-consuming thing. It will be published in 2013. All the photography in it will be by my excellent husband, Jonathan Hession. I visit other people’s gardens both for pleasure and for work. I’m one of the Irish inspectors for the Good Gardens Guide, an independent and well-respected guide for garden visitors to the UK and Ireland. I was the Irish Times‘ gardening correspondent for nearly 15 years. I am a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the UK Garden Media Guild, and I contribute to various publications in Ireland and the UK.
Jane Powers
The name of this blog, One Bean Row, is inspired by Yeats’ poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree, and its much-quoted line: “Nine bean rows will I have there, and a hive for the honey bee”. Although Yeats wanted nine rows of beans (which makes me think he’d never actually grown a bean), for me one is plenty.
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Excellent blog Jane! I work in Springmount Garden Centre and look forward to meeting you on the 24th September
Sorry to see you are leaving IT doesnt seem 15 years I remember you sitting with hubby on my lawn (Fairfield Lodge) when you were about to start in the IT and how nervouse you were,Tempest fugit, am now living in London, good luck with the new book,
John Bourke
I always loved your articles in the Irish Times, and looked forward to reading them in the bath, nicely away from the rain and hard work that I’d had dealt with earlier…
I wish you all the luck with your new projects.
I have been inspired to create a flower garden a veg garden apolytunnel with peaches and asparagus as my main successes, a fruit cage, an orchard and a woodland area (the latter is mostly my husbands work!), all on an acre, which I am personally thrilled with because I have had candida causing migraines and fibromyalgia and it has been an adventure which you have encouraged..
Thanks.
Chris Barrett, Gortavranner Clondrohid Macroom
kryschrisbarrett@gmail.com