Well-known gardener Dermot O’Neill died at the age of 58.
Mr. O’Neill, of Blackrock, Co Dublin, died suddenly at St Vincent’s Hospital on Friday, according to his death notice.
He credited his grandmother as being the person who got him into gardening as a young child. He delivered his first gardening talk at 16 years of age when he addressed the Mother’s Union about flower arranging.
Mr. O’Neill wrote and broadcast about gardening for decades, including a TV series, Dermot’s Secret Garden, which followed his restoration of the Clondeglass walled garden in Co Laois.
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O’Neill was diagnosed with stomach cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma after what was initially assumed to be a recurrence of a prior stomach ulcer. Beacon Hospital, Beaumont Hospital, and St. Vincent’s Private Hospital all treated him.
His children are not known to the public as of 2022. but was believed to be a father.
