How Do I Know So Much About Breast Feeding …?
I must have the most varied career I have ever known. Definitely in the context of the great outdoors…. Here’s some of what I did for the year 2009. Anyhow…. Last week I got a phone call asking if I would speak at a conference. J: Hi Peter its Jenny can you talk…? P: Yeah [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 4 comments }Some Irish Birds…
The weather outside is absolutely freezing… it has been for some time now and today the snow fell in Ballyboughal heavy enough to concern me. With that in mind I had reckoned I should do a post on some things frost[y] related. In what I can only describe as a sincerely very welcome press release [...]
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { 3 comments }Nollaig Shona
If you didn’t get a Christmas card from me this year. Don’t be offended. I didn’t send any. My reason… I took the money for this and gave it to a friend of mine called Amy. When you read what she has to say…. you’ll understand. Amy explains it so well…. I have decided in [...]
{ all posts, thinking of others } { 2 comments }101 Amazing Peter Donegan Facts
I had written some time ago a list of ten things you did not know about me. But recently I was reading the weblog of Eolai Gan Fheile and found he had done 101 which I found so much more interesting…. I realised I should do something a little more indepth. I have 4 sisters [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 8 comments }Cape Garden Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
Whilst building the garden in the Wallacedene Township in South Africa, I would first like to note that I was a part of a team. A very large team. And I simply played a part. To that there where so many really good people I met out there. One in particular was a really good [...]
{ all posts, parks & places } { 3 comments }Carex Oshimensis ‘Evergold’
The Carex or sedge plant [cyperaceae] is a genus of over 1,500 species. They are mostly evergreen, at least those that I am most familiar with, although there are some that are deciduous and they are grown mainly for their foliage. The member of the Carex family that I am chosing to profile is the Carex oshimensis [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 2 comments }Autumn Colour…
Can you imagine if every house in Ireland planted just one tree…. how beautiful would this country look … I really do love this time of year. Last week I was walking down Griffith Avenue and being honest it almost brought me back to my childhood days of not that long ago… I used [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { 3 comments }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 [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 3 comments }a venue has been donated….
remember this post on my trip to south africa with the niall mellon township…? a venue has been kindly donated by niall power of the garden exhibition centre in kilquade, co. wicklow for the entire weekend Saturday & Sunday September 12th & 13th. Gentleman? you better believe it thanks niall Check out the video to [...]
{ all posts, thinking of others } { 0 comments }Father Collins Park
I was talking to a friend of mine, Aidan, gate meister extraordinaire and part time garden enthusiast…. he was telling me about this [now] park that used to be a field where he and his Father used to hunt when he was younger… Peter, you just got to go & see this park… it is [...]
{ all posts, parks & places } { 9 comments }solanum crispum glasnevin
there are about 1,400 members to the solanum family. I particularly like this one climber mainly for its blue and yellow dotted trailing flowers. A member of the potatoe family… for that reason I believe] I find this beauty always does well in Irish soils given half a chance. The crispum members of the solanum [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 0 comments }ardgillan demesne
I went to see Ardgillan Demesne; It is a park, a castle [but not a true castle...], a playground, a gardens… the second Sunday in March. It is by far the finest example of a park I have seen in Ireland to date. Unlike Malahide Castle – all parts of the ‘demesne’ were open. It [...]
{ all posts, parks & places } { 0 comments }malahide demesne
The first Sunday of March I went to Malahide Castle [also called park or demesne]. I like the park. I’ve been here before. But it’s been a while. As an open space – I love it. But the park holds much more than green fields. I was you might say a little disappointed. On the [...]
{ all posts, parks & places } { 0 comments }national tree week
Blog posting #300 March 1st – 7th 2009 is National Tree Week. It’s a cool week. There’s loads of tree events on – literally all over the country. There is no excuse not to get involved. I have some posts on trees, trees, trees and trees here to get you in the groove. That [...]
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { 0 comments }i almost forgot….
this year i went to my *local* Christmas tree farm and picked out my very own tree. It was the first time I’d had a tree in my house as usually I’m away or not around at this time of year. Anyway… I had no star for my tree, so I asked my niece Lilly [...]
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