The thoughts and ramblings of a landscape gardener…
Posted in every post to date, my ireland on Jan 30th, 2008
I’m not a massive fan of mass fast foods. I like my planet and I try to be good. But I found a place in Swords called YO! SUSHI [North Co. Dublin] that doesn’t sell water in a plastic bottle! Something I refuse to do. I want it in an earth friendly recyclable glass [...]
Posted in every post to date, my office on Jan 29th, 2008
Lá Nua did an article on our company recently. As a result, I got a great email from Eoin O’ Riain in Galway who says:
Molaim sibh as an suíomh álainn - tá nasc curtha chugaibh agam ar an leathanach http://anghaeltacht.net/gno/index.html Níl mórán seans go ndéanfaimís gnó le chéile.
This hasn’t got so much anything [...]
Posted in every post to date, my office on Jan 29th, 2008
I have been writing for self build magazine for some time now but if you are building and at present your garden looks something like the picture above then this magazine and its website should prove really useful.
Some previous articles are available online.
Posted in every post to date, my favourite plants on Jan 28th, 2008
Walking through the nurseries today selecting trees for a garden we are creating at the moment when I stumbled upon this little beauty flowering on its bare stems. Most of the trees I needed are in bud at present, but not in leaf and definitely theres rare, if any oportunity to see flower. Next time [...]
Posted in every post to date, show gardens & shows on Jan 28th, 2008
I was asked some time ago to put my pictures of this garden on the web. Designed by Goncalo Castro Henriques and his team using digital technology the ‘garden was generated in a virtual environment’ and ‘the data transmitted to a machine that produced a hybrid form.’
One should appreciate that the garden was [...]
Posted in every post to date, living the good life on Jan 24th, 2008
I made a conscious decision some time ago that if the earth, landscaping to be precise, was my work then I as best as possible and the donegan landscaping team should work to a little more for the earth. It sounds like a fair deal and it is. It wasn’t that I/we did nothing green [...]
Posted in every post to date, show gardens & shows on Jan 23rd, 2008
This was Bloom 2007 and my show garden [and design] ‘No Rubber - Soul’. A roaring success one could say but… built without any sponsorship - madness most some could say!
The question is would you sponsor a garden….. ?
Posted in every post to date, my office on Jan 22nd, 2008
I was looking at ways of making office life a little ‘greener’ recently and one monthly meet suggestion was to recycle our envelopes. A Forais na Gaeilge translation later, being that we are Barr 50 and we [sara] came up with this green - irish sticker.
At present we heat the office from recycled timber [...]
Posted in every post to date, horticulture in ireland on Jan 21st, 2008
If nothing else apart from making you smile on a Monday morning… wouldn’t it be simply breathtaking if every piece of public area space had as much thought put into it! We may not be able to freely or as easily grow the same varieties of plants in Ireland but horticulture does allow us to [...]
Posted in horticulture in ireland on Jan 18th, 2008
… if this delightful weather keeps up!
i think I’ll reduce my carbon emissions even further and buy a canoe…
Happy Friday and have a great weekend.
peter
