{"id":316141,"date":"2026-02-25T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316141\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:58:12","slug":"diarmuid-gavin-how-to-plant-magnificent-magnolias-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316141\/","title":{"rendered":"Diarmuid Gavin: How to plant magnificent magnolias this spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">These diverse trees and shrubs are far more exciting than the boring paint colour\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A magnolia tree in spring\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/762bbb4d-eb51-4246-bbf1-b52b5f5b5121.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A magnolia tree in spring<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">March 1 marks the beginning of meteorological spring. While Celtic traditions celebrate February 1, St Brigid\u2019s Day, as the first day of spring, this month has felt very wintry and extremely soggy. Hopefully, as we enter March, temperatures will begin to rise, and we can all get back to gardening again. While the ground is saturated, you are best staying away from it \u2013 trampling on wet ground will only compact it further, and it\u2019s also quite easy to slip in this weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">March is a busy month for gardeners as there is much to be sown, planted and nurtured. It\u2019s also a time when nature begins to blossom. I\u2019ve spotted blackthorn already in bloom in the countryside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These diverse trees and shrubs are far more exciting than the boring paint colour A magnolia tree in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[65009,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-316141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-diarmuid-gavin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}