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The Inca Gardens of Ancient Peru

Ahead of Pat Kenny's move to weekends at the beginning of March, we've delved into the archives t...

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10.30 19 Feb 2026


The Inca Gardens of Ancient Peru


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10.30 19 Feb 2026


Ahead of Pat Kenny's move to weekends at the beginning of March, we've delved into the archives to bring you some of the best pieces from his dozen-and-a-half years of mornings on Newstalk.

High in the Andes the mountains rise in sheer ridges, their flanks cut with cliffs and ravines, their summits capped with snow.  To the casual eye they seem forbidding, a landscape of rock and cloud where little could grow. Yet if you follow the river valleys upward into the Sacred Valley of the Incas you begin to see an extraordinary sight. The Inca Gardens of Ancient Peru. To tell us the story of the wonderful sight is Diarmuid Gavin, award winning garden designer.


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