Her garden in Dublin has been open to the public for over 40 years but rarely captured on screen so Dermot was delighted to finally capture the beauty of this Ranelagh home and gardens on video for RTÉ LifeStyle.
Author of many gardening books, Dillon comes from Perthshire in Scotland and has been living in Ireland with her husband Val for the last 45 years.
She is much sought after as an author, broadcaster and garden consultant and lectures in the United States and New Zealand, as well as all over the UK. She has also travelled extensively in order to study plants in Nepal, China, South Africa, South America and New Zealand.
In 1999, she was awarded the Gold Veitch Memorial Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society and the George Robert White medal of honour of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 2003. In Autumn 2004, she was made a distinguished counsellor to the board of the New York Botanic Gardens. Watch the video above.
For more details about Helen's garden and its opening times, click here
