Gerry Daly

Gerald "Gerry" Daly (born 1953) is an Irish Horticulturist, garden designer and media personality and editor of The Irish Garden magazine. He has featured, over a period of nearly 40 years, on multiple radio and television programmes on RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland channels, horticultural advisor and commercial fruit grower, and both his parents were keen gardeners at the family residence at Bohreen Hill,

Career Daly joined Irish national broadcaster RTÉ as a senior producer in 1979, and designed the Ask About Gardening radio show. and by the Irish Times as the "popular personification of Irish gardening," "phone-in" questions and answers radio show, from its inception, for over 20 years, and also took listener questions on shows like Marian Finucane's on weekend mornings, and on slots with Keelin Shanley and others.

Daly appeared on RTÉ from 1984 to 1995, leading the Room Outside programme team. From 1991 to 1995, he was also lead presenter of Greenfingers for RTE and BBC Northern Ireland. Both programmes achieved high audience figures. to the annual Rose Festival at St Anne's Park and a range of local events.

Daly was a co-founder of the Garden and Landscape Designers Association of Ireland, and remains a member. Daly was joint editor with Mary Davies until 2006, before becoming sole editor in 2007. He is also the editor of the associated website, garden.ie, launched in 2001.

Daly is gardening columnist for the Sunday Independent, for more than thirty years, as well as the Evening Herald and the leading agricultural newspaper, the Farmers Journal.

Books Gerry Daly's Garden Book, 1986 (new edition with added material, 1992) Children's Gardening Book, Gerry Daly, 1988 Gerry Daly's Garden Style, 1990 A Gardening Year, 1992