building repak recycle week 09

Its a little of a crazy one when given a one day build time for any garden… everything must go perfectly according to plan… 
Unknows to most preparation for this garden started about 7 weeks ago. 
‘The greenhouse effect’ was intended to be a full and proper garden but as things do change… the ‘fail to prepare’ cliché definitely lent itself to [...]

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repak recycle week 2009….

I  disappeared for the last couple of days…. the main reason was that I was creating a garden [of sorts ] for Repak Recycle Week.
The official launch is tomorrow [wednesday 7th October '09] at 9.30am. That said there’s also an evening session kicking off between 6 & 7 pm in The Library Bar [in the Central Hotel] [opposite dunnes [...]

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donegan, electric picnic & a pink boat

I went down to electric picnic ‘09 on the Sunday, late in the aftrenoon. Just for the one night/ day. My good friends Michael & Nicola were getting married on the Saturday and I couldn’t miss that
Thanks so much to Sian Maloney, Anthony Sarah, Amy & sis Blaithín Ben and all the really [...]

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a recycled show garden…

Remember this post about the smithfield festival….?
Here’s what they said:
In association with the [myplant.ie] rediscovery centre ballymun and waste management, dublin city council, award winning landscape designer peter donegan returns to smithfield aiming to create a small urban garden of sorts filled with nothing but what could have been thrown out and free to take [...]

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creating a garden at the smithfield festival ‘09

Do you remember Urban Garden Smithfield that took place last year…?
There are a lot of elements involved in it. But from my point of view…. it’s obviously got to to be about gardens.
This year it going to be a little different.
This year I’m building a garden. Of sorts.
I can’t really tell you what [...]

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