The thoughts and ramblings of a landscape gardener…
Posted in every post to date, thursday garden guest on Nov 20th, 2008
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For the moment writer #4 is Damien Mulley. When I first suggested that I do a garden guest slot… suprisingly, possibly, the first person to contact me on twitter was Damien.
He owns Mulley Communications runs the Irish Blog Awards; the Irish Web [...]
Posted in every post to date, thursday garden guest on Nov 13th, 2008
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For the moment writer number 3 is Marie Boran alias Pixie von Dust. A writer, editor and journalist of all things technical with Silicon Republic, Marie was recently awarded Technology journalist of year at the IIA awards. That aside Marie is [...]
Posted in every post to date, landscape design on Nov 11th, 2008
designer: Jóse Berado, Eleuterio Soares
owner: Jóse Berado Foundation
garden style: Portuguese-Oriental
size: 21 aces [8.5 ha]
climate: mediterranean
location: funchal madiera
[source: 1001 gardens you must see before you die]
It is very unusual for me, possibly, to go on holidays and then - for a break of sorts - to visit gardens…?
The island of Madiera is quite an intriguing place [...]
Posted in every post to date, thursday garden guest, uncategorized on Nov 6th, 2008
debbie & friends
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For the moment writer number #2 is Debbie Metrustry alias debbiemet. A lover of all things outdoors and botanical. I first met Debbie at Electric Picnic. A common love of horticulture is more professionally shared here. An absolute lady, a [...]
Posted in every post to date, show gardens & shows on Nov 5th, 2008
tickets are already on sale for RHS Chelsea flower show. How do I know? Well I follow them on twitter! The RHS are on twitter here and of course donegan landscaping is on twitter here.
it’s amazing to think that even an organisation like the rhs [on the go since 1804] is embracing technology and using [...]
Posted in every post to date, thursday garden guest on Oct 30th, 2008
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For the moment writer number 1 is Ángel Luis González Fernández alias bohoe. A gentleman and genius photographer [a browse of his work is so worth while http://www.bohoe.com]. The graduate of Dublin Institute of Technology is now based between Dublin and Zurich. [...]
Posted in every post to date, horticulture in ireland on Oct 20th, 2008
my reasons for starting Peter Donegan Landscaping Ltd are probably quite different to those of most in business [?] to be very honest. But as I have said recently it always comes back to the fact that I love what I do.
With that in mind, I was thinking that maybe the Donegan Landscaping team might [...]
Posted in every post to date, my ireland on Sep 3rd, 2008
I’m looking forward to this. I like Farmleigh House and if you do nothing else on this day the tour of the house is so worth while. Straight from the promo page [pretty much] here’s what one can expect at this free for all - unless you decide to buy something - event.
On Saturday & [...]
Posted in every post to date, living the good life on Aug 5th, 2008
I found it really hard to find information of any substance or at all in any books on this plant. [this is a selection of the veg growing section]
But, if ever you wished to go green really quickly this is the plant for you. I chose white mustard. Instructions say it can be grown on [...]
Posted in every post to date, show gardens & shows on Jun 26th, 2008
The award winning gardens of Brackenstown have hit the big screen. The gardens open for two weeks only for the Mid summer sculpt exhibition and this is one not to be missed. Tickets are limited and must be booked in advance through Gormleys Fine Art. Oliver is right, ‘what a setting’!
