The thoughts and ramblings of a landscape gardener…
Posted in every post to date, garden of hope on Aug 25th, 2008
I want to thank all of you who raised, donated [no matter how much] or simply gave me your couple of spare shillings, for my second journey with The Niall Melon Towship Trust. This will be my second year travelling to Cape Town. Thank you all. If not to me for the charity. Bulaidh bós [...]
Posted in every post to date, garden of hope on Jun 22nd, 2008
Last night in the D4 hotel the first annual gardeners ball [black tie green carpet event] took place, the brainchild of Dominic Loughran and his team of supporters and helpers. It was I must admit somewhat a change to see so many ‘gardeners’ looking so sprightly at the black tie event. And whilst my [...]
Posted in every post to date, garden of hope on Jun 3rd, 2008
does the mister never bring you anywhere? do you fancy treating yourself to an evening among the ‘you scrub up wells’ of this world or did you just fancy seeing yourself dressed up as James Bond ?
At 250 euro a ticket with Diarmuid Gavin as guest speaker this is your chance to walk the green [...]
Posted in every post to date, garden of hope on Jun 2nd, 2008
today Sara and Nicola completed the mini marathon in Dublin City Centre today the final day of Bloom 2008. They did the run so to raise money for my journey with the garden of hope team and the niall mellon township
Thanks so much to all who gave a few euros of their hard earned cash. [...]
Posted in every post to date, garden of hope, show gardens & shows on Jun 1st, 2008
Sara [2nd from left] who does the office for me will run the mini marathon tomorrow with her friend Nicola for me to raise funds for the Garden of Hope journey with the Niall Mellon Township trust. We met the gang at their stand in Bloom in the Park today.
If you have spare cash I [...]
Posted in every post to date, garden of hope on Nov 21st, 2007
these are just some of the amazing people [sorry garden of hope ladies but it's the only pic I have at the moment] who were involved in the garden that was built in South Africa. In the centre [wearing the brown hat] is Dominic Loughran who designed the wonderful garden and the person who [...]
Posted in every post to date, garden of hope on Nov 7th, 2007
Everything is going really well in Cape Town. For the people of this township and the 1500 volunteers involved, it is an emotional event and one I am so proud to be part of. My previous articles on this blog will give a little more insight.
We arrived late on Friday due to Monarch airlines most [...]
Posted in every post to date, garden of hope on Oct 29th, 2007
Most of you know my trip to South Africa is taking place this Thursday. Since my last post Dominic Loughran came as my guest to the ALCI awards and gave a fine, appropriate and very rousing speech. I was very proud to sit with him.
I also roped in genius my good pal freelance photographer [...]
Posted in every post to date, garden of hope on Sep 2nd, 2007
Part of november will see myself and 45 others and some colleagues of mine] travel to south africa to build a garden with the Niall Mellon trust.
NB: just to clarify - the garden was designed and the build fully organised by Dominic Loughran, his garden of hope team & The Niall Mellon Township Trust.
The sponsorship [...]
