The thoughts and ramblings of a landscape gardener…
Posted in every post to date, my office on Nov 12th, 2008
increasingly I am asked why I bother to write this weblog? I don’t particularly know why…. Some see it as time wasted; some ‘don’t get it‘ and some wonder what I get from it; I decided to dispel the myths that may linger out there regarding my weblog.
But as the queries went a little further [...]
Posted in every post to date, my office on Oct 31st, 2008
You want to get the garden designed. You have already tried and after spending the entire lottery, it still looks humerous. The sun is shining. The neighbours have just started the barbeque. You own a jungle. Where do you start?
If this is you? then, at €4.50 [not bad value at all!] the winter issue of [...]
Posted in every post to date, my office on Sep 25th, 2008
I wrote an article some time ago for Diarmuids magazine. It went in under the rant and rave section and was titled knowledge versus experience’. Of course if you want to see what the rave was about I suppose you’ll have to buy the magazine [april/ may 2008 issue] from the good guys at harmonia.ie
It [...]
Posted in every post to date, my ireland on Sep 3rd, 2008
5/6/7 Sept 2008 Dublin Show, Punchestown, Co. Kildare
I was at this last year. A genius event on the calender and will be there again this year. I do get a free ticket because I write for the magazine, but, this is about selfbuilding? So why am I putting in out there? Because as this article [...]
Posted in every post to date, my office on Jul 29th, 2008
This magazine is really good. I like writing for them. In fact I’d have to say my editor Gillian is really cool too! Is that unusual? That said I enjoyed writing this article. Check out the exclamation marks and you’ll understand why!!
This article for Selfbuild is in summary:
Trees are your best antiques
Working from a [...]
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.
