landfill is for wasters – recycle a computer

I don’t know much about computers, really. Like a car, I can drive it but thats it. Anyhow there’s a computer crowd called UBUNTU….. They’ve decided to work alongside Camara, an Irish charity who take in second hand computers do them up [basically] and send them to schools and colleges in Africa who need them. [...]

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one in the hand…

A picture of Peter’s ‘bird… before anyone else says it!! This was really cool. It is so amazing since I planted trees in my garden what has come with. I think this little fella hurt his wing and so I thought shoe box and soft paper… and seems he just popped by for a little [...]

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Tree leaves may have a bio-cycle

Among the many books in my library I have a little gem called Go make a Difference – over 500 daily ways to save the planet. Whilst the book relates mainly to mainland UK it is still quite a fine journal crammed with useful links and thins that can be so easily done to help [...]

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investing in nature

I planted some new Tilia Cordata ‘Greenspire’ [and carpinus betula in the distance] outside my office last October and complete with bird feeders I left them there to do what nature feels best for them. Not being the best bird photographer in the country [I usually scare them all away], I managed to snap this [...]

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lifting trees at sunset…

just a beautiful image -  It was also for an amazing project for an amazing gentleman who wanted to introduce more mature trees into an already native irish landscape. How considerate is that…. Makes me smile everytime! Brilliant.

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wood chips & the carbon footprint?!!

 I recently got the wood chip pellet boiler installed with thanks to the [Atfar Construction team - again!]. To my amazement I could buy wood chip pellets as easy as a bag of coal. Thats good… ?? Well, you might think so. How I heat my office is another post but for those who dont [...]

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want to join ‘our gang’?

I couldn’t join this one. In fact I’d say ‘this gang’ has gone their seperate ways  by now…. So I joined the ALCI [the association of landscape contractors of Ireland] instead! The basic difference between this and any other ‘association’ you might ask? Well, our gang is not just Irish, but more European. The difference, I [...]

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a full ban on plastic?

I know I’ve touched on this before with regard to water and plastic bottles but maybe it needs to be more direct? Reading a book from my library, ‘Go make a difference – over 500 daily ways to save the planet’ [by think books], tells it is proven that bottled is no better than tap water but, bottled water uses 1.5 [...]

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save a tree… recycle an envelope

I was looking at ways of making office life a little ‘greener’ recently and one monthly meet suggestion was to recycle our envelopes. A Forais na Gaeilge translation later, being that we are Barr 50 and we [sara] came up with this green – irish sticker.   At present we heat the office from recycled [...]

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making [it] your business [to be] a little more green

Can you imagine if every shop front made this amount of effort to the front of their business? Wouldn’t Dublin be that little more beautiful. With construction work, traffic and all of the usual razamataz which might not inspire excitement in your day – what an effect it would have! We did these planters for [...]

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judges comments & the alci awards

We received the Judges comments on our garden today. They said; ‘for exemplary standard of landscaping’ judges’ commented on the Private Garden Landscaping [award of merit] & the Private Garden Maintenance [winning garden] “the work illustrates a consisted commitment to horticultural excellence in a restoration project that requires a keen understanding of the client’s requirements. [...]

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two landscaping awards for brackenstown house

October 18th 2007 saw Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd win two  national landscaping awards as both designer and contractor. Donegan Landscaping won the award of Merit in the best private garden category and the overall award for best private garden maintenance, whilst  Peter Donegan received award as designer of Veronica and Paddy Campbells 27 acre 16th [...]

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no! i said borax

I was out with Jane Hall of ecoshop a while ago. A nice day out to Glen of the Downs if your looking for some inspiration. I bartered some of my time for hers and we had a natter and some coffee whilst discussing some projects where intelligent landscaping would benefit. As a thank you [...]

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