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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irish basketmakers association

Basket making on a landscaping weblog…? You better believe it!
It is an amazing craft and brilliant to watch…really it is. But more I like the fact that ‘most work with natural materials such as willow, rush, straw and hedgerow materials’ – says the leaflet that IBA secretary Kathleen Mc Cormick gave to me.
I had met [...]

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beekeeping or simply attracting bees…

When I was in bloom I got to meet some people you may never get a chance to nab a quick interview with… In this interview I meet with Graham Hall of The Irish Bee Keepers Association….
before you watch it…. he was perched on the higher part of the tree base and I on the [...]

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the bloom in the park ‘09 experience

The sun is splitting the skies, the Phoenix Park looks spectacluar…. you simply can’t imagine what a show Bloom in the Park has turned out to be.
To only mention the gardens is, maybe, what I should be doing…. but, as a garden builder and designer at Bloom – they are all [seriously] amazing and I [...]

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looking back…. bloom 2007

this week is bloom in the park week. This being my ‘year off’…. [?] this week, I’m gonna take a look back and a little look forward….
No Rubber Soul. My Garden for Bloom 2007.
I love this garden. I really do. I had no sponsor. I was advised not to do it. Nobody knew what Bloom [...]

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