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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 09/10/2026

Picking up a book because its cover catches your eye. Feeling its weight. Turning the pages. Reading the first paragraph. A bookseller recommending something you'd never have discovered yourself. You can't quite recreate that feeling on a screen.

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 3h

📚 Next stop: Maynooth Bookshop, Co. Kildare! There’s something lovely about a bookshop in a university town. Students, families and lifelong readers, all searching for their next great discovery. A place fall in love with another story. ❤️ Keep the magic alive! www.maynoothbookshop.com/about-us

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 4h

Thank you so much! It’s a magical place isn’t it? I’m so glad I live here.

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 15h

📚 McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey, Michigan 🇺🇸 In Michigan’s charming Gaslight District, this family-owned independent bookshop has been bringing books and readers together since 1992. And they’ve listed, Nature’s Acre! 🌿 mcleanandeakin.com/book/9781919... Keep the magic alive! ✨

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 15h

📚 The Book Nook & Other Treasures, Perth, Ontario 🇨🇦 In a beautiful heritage building beside the Tay River, this independent bookshop is now stocking and promoting my little Irish memoir, Nature’s Acre. Thank you! 🌿 thebooknookperth.com Keep the magic alive! ✨

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 10/10/2026

📚 Next: The Winding Stair Bookshop, Dublin Overlooking the River Liffey, this beautiful independent bookshop is full of character, Irish writing and unexpected discoveries. www.winding-stair.com Support independent bookshops. Keep the magic alive! 📚✨

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 09/10/2026

📚 Remember walking into a wonderful bookshop? The smell of coffee and paper. Shelves reaching the ceiling. Books piled everywhere. A thousand worlds waiting to be discovered. There's magic in a real bookshop. This Irish Book Week, let's keep that magic alive. ❤️🇮🇪 🧵👇

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 09/10/2026

📚 Next stop: Vibes & Scribes, Cork! A treasure trove of new, second-hand and bargain books. The sort of place where you never know what wonderful discovery is waiting on the next shelf. A family-run Cork institution since 1991. ❤️ Keep the magic alive! vibesandscribes.ie

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 09/10/2026

📚 Next stop: Kenny’s Bookshop, Galway! A family of booksellers since 1940. Generations of stories, discoveries and conversations. New books, old books, rare treasures — and people who really know their books. 85 years of keeping the magic alive. ❤️ kennys.ie

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 09/10/2026

📚 Next stop: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway! Over 100,000 books! New, old, rare, forgotten treasures. Shelves everywhere you look. The sort of place where you go in for five minutes and emerge two hours later. A book lover’s paradise. ❤️ Keep the magic alive! charliebyrne.ie

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 09/10/2026

📚 First stop: The Book Centre, Kilkenny! A beautiful bookshop on High Street, in a building with centuries of history. Imagine all the stories that have passed through those doors. Next time you’re in Kilkenny, call in and discover something wonderful. ❤️ Keep the magic alive. thebookcentre.ie

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 09/10/2026

Ireland has wonderful independent bookshops. They champion Irish writers, bring readers together and give our towns something special. I'm celebrating some of them in this thread. ❤️ Repost to show them some love. Which Irish bookshop has a place in your heart? Tag them!

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 07/10/2026

A child who visits this garden calls it “my happy place”. Another described it as “like a dreamland”. We didn’t set out to teach children to garden. We just gave them a place where life was everywhere.

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 04/10/2026

The posts in the thread are chapter titles.

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 03/10/2026

The Taj Mahal

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Tom @tomgoddard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This will probably sound too wierd coming from a stranger, and maybe not proper in traditional ways of saying one likes something, but your pictures and back story are heartening. In every sense of the word. Ty for sharing.

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 03/10/2026

A place with a name

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 03/10/2026

The Onion Graveyard

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 03/10/2026

Wonder Above All

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 03/10/2026

The Soil Doesn’t Judge

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 03/10/2026

That’s Zack. This is me. We do look alike :-).

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 03/10/2026

In 2020 I was handed the keys to an old walled garden. I thought I was going to grow vegetables. Instead, wildlife returned. People came. Children came. It changed my life. I wrote the story down. It’s called Nature’s Acre. Read the book. 🌱 gardeningwell.ie/natures-acre

Zack stands beside raised beds that he has made from donated scaffold boards cordless drill in his hand.

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 03/10/2026

If you can’t find it locally where you are let me know please and I can help you find the nearest supplier. Should be available in all good bookshops in some countries they may need to order it in, but that shouldn’t be a problem. They should be able to get it pretty quick.

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 03/10/2026

That’s a good description of it. Somebody else said it’s “an adventure story set in a garden”.

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 02/10/2026

When you get to page 93, tell me if you cried, I know I did :-).

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 02/10/2026

Thank you so much Maria. I am not worthy!

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Gods I love a bit of knapweed, and these pics show why. Also, I've started Ciarán's book "Nature's Acre" about tending to a neglected walled garden during lockdown, and it is one of the most quietly beautiful, steadying, and joyous things I've read in a long old time. Warmly recommended:

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Nature’s Acre

Nature’s Acre is an Irish wildlife‑gardening memoir by Ciarán De Buitléar — a story of recovery, community, and learning to live with nature. Read excerpts, praise, and order the book at GardeningWell

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 01/10/2026

A few weeks ago this one native plant was covered in life — dozens of butterflies and bees feeding on it. This is knapweed, one of our native wildflowers. Native plants aren’t just decoration. They’re part of the food web. Plant some. Leave some. Make room for life.

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 01/10/2026

These are the most common invasive plants here. All of them cause huge problems. 1. Rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum) 2. Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) 3. Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) 4. Giant rhubarb / Chilean rhubarb (Gunnera tinctoria) 5. Giant hogweed (Heracleum mantega

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 01/10/2026

We certainly have a problem with invasive plants here from all over the world. The following are North American plants that are classified as invasive here. * American skunk cabbage * Floating pennywort * Fanwort * Water fern * Water primrose * Large-flowered waterweed

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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie · 01/10/2026

Very useful information for those in the US. They’re native here so we can fill our boots. The one in my backyard just arrived there and I left it there.

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