The thoughts and ramblings of a landscape gardener…
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, my favourite plants on Jan 17th, 2008
this is the platycerium bifurcatum, more commonly know as staghorn fern. I thought it worth a mention being that it is so unusual and not exactly what one might see on O’Connell Street!
For those of you who dont know… epiphytic plants, in this case of fern, are plants that grow above the ground level and [...]
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, show gardens & shows on Oct 15th, 2007
Before I go any further, please refer to this article first and it’s comments.
The news is out. Titled Failed garden festival has over €1m debt, Ian Kehoe wrote the facts in yesterdays Sunday Business Post. Ian’s a good guy who tells it well and I’m a SBP fan, as those who read my articles will [...]
Posted in every post to date, my ireland on Oct 1st, 2007
According to the Sunday Business Post, September 30th 2007 News Section, Green Party energy minister Eamonn Ryan will address a two-day conference hosted by independent transmission system operator, Eirgrid. The annual conference will address issues facing the national grid, including customers’ experience and the all-island energy market. The conference, taking place on Wednesday and Thursday [...]
Posted in every post to date, my ireland on Sep 30th, 2007
I took this picture today at the Fingal Vintage Society Classic Car Show. The event, delayed due to weather conditions was rescheduled from July to September and rainfall overnight almost cancelled the gig again.
But the Hoey family [applause] having donated the use of their land to the community again weren’t to be totally disappointed [apart [...]
Posted in advice - garden, every post to date on Sep 29th, 2007
You want spring colour in your garden, but you and I know the gardeners summer holidays is just after the sprouts and turkey, when you most need a little inspiration and even the garden is looking a little lazy. Grandma’ and the relations have just moved back home and you’ve got to go outside [...]
Posted in every post to date, horticulture in ireland on Sep 28th, 2007
Thanks to Bord Bia we do have statistics on the irish hortiultural and so much more. But I never thought that a magazine outside of The Emerald Isle would cover the value of our hortiultural market. This article titled Irish landscape market hits high was published in Horticulture Week in August 2nd 2007. If you [...]
Posted in every post to date, landscape design on Sep 28th, 2007
You want your garden and your contractor to be on television for the right reason.
Before you start anything, develop a very general idea of what you want and how much you wish to spend. Select your company carefully and do please ensure with your choice of company that their staff/ horticulturist is qualified and experienced. [...]
Posted in every post to date, my ireland on Sep 21st, 2007
Due to popular demand and with special thanks to Muireann at indymedia Ireland here’s the result of Sundays event which attracted over 1500 people. Muireann also suggested that this website should be checked out when it is updated later today. - I don’t usually edit my blogs - but it had to happen for this [...]
