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what do you think….? Call. Coffee. Email. Or Comment…. Peter Donegan: award winning Irish gardener. Horticulturalist. Blogger. Writer. Talker. Human. Makes gardens. Either or. Will always be happy and happy gardening

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The Great Gardening Weekend Podcast

As always you can rss the podcasts via iTunes or direct via audioboo or you can subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed last weeks garden podcast ? On the blog: The Beautiful Cow Competition Ever wondered about Irish Milk ? – you should. The all about organic post got interesting. See comments. And Politics.ie [...]

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Garden Gallery

There are many gardens I have created and designed over the last, almost 10 years now. These are just some of the images that may help in giving you and idea of just what kind of possibilities exist with your great outdoors. NB: As a by the way…. if you wish to enlarge the images [...]

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The Weekend Gardeners Podcast

To the garden, as always you can rss the podcasts via iTunes or direct via audioboo or you subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed last weeks garden podcast ? Links From the blog: fruit trees – get some planted the garden group is to visit the battle of the boyne [...]

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Fruiting Investments

as always you can rss the podcasts via iTunes or direct via audioboo or you subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. As you can see from the first image we had a lot of flowers on the cherry trees a few months ago… Slight bit early maybe, I’m actually @donegangardens on [...]

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Garden Group Tour: Battle Of The Boyne Site

Date: Sunday 27th June Time: 11.30 am on location. Details: Aisling Mc Mahon of the OPW & Site Manager for The Battle of the Boyne site [Drogheda] will give a personal guided tour to the group. Numbers: limited to 18 Also: [update] this post on the boyne site New To The Garden Group: I recommend [...]

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Irish Mail On Sunday 23rd May 2010

Yesterday, Eugene Higgins of The Irish Mail On Sunday did a great Piece on The Garden Group with the tagline How a Bloom maverick is taking bloggers on tours of our ‘secret’ gardens and titled it A www.walk on the wild side The main picture is of Dena [@curlydena], Mom Vena [@VenaW] and Dad Andrew [...]

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Basil – Ocimum basilicum

The Ocimum [labiatae/ lamiaceae] are a genus of about 365 species of aromatic annuals and evergreen herbs. But – this is not lavender we are discussing. This is the herb we know as basil. With that in mind I am only interested in one type. There are other varieties, but I have chose what I [...]

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Grow Your Own Course

course title: grow your own kitchen garden where: ballyboughal [just outside Swords, north Dublin] when: saturday 22nd May 2010 time: 10am – 2pm cost: €60 numbers limit: 8/9 people max Details: After my talk with the GIY group and then after the last course was covered recently in the Irish Independent by Susan Daly….I don’t [...]

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The GIY Rathgar Terenure Talk

I got an email in some time ago from a friend of mine. Séan wanted me to do a talk on growing your own. He is a member of a new movement call GIY – grow it yourself – that seems to be sweeping the nation. I had heard about GIY but I didn’t really [...]

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Irelands Eye

The second garden group event took place today. This time to Irelands Eye. It was an amazing day. And to that some notes of thanks are due. To the legend that is Diarmuid O’Cathasaigh of The Howth Peninsula Historical Society, who spoke to us about the island and to Mary Stephenson who introduced me to [...]

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Donabate Allotments

I was talking to Trevor Sargeant at another gig. Trying to find a time that suited us both to meet we settled on meeting at the allotments in Donabate on Saturday morning. However which way it happened we missed each other. I took a walk around anyway and I have to say I was very [...]

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Just Call Me Peter

I have been a member of the Institute of Horticulture since I was about 23 years old. Sounded really good at that age [and in that era] to have Peter Donegan AI Hort [now MI Hort] for a name and title. But what does MI Hort mean, to you or to me? Is it really [...]

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The Garden Group Visit The War Memorial Gardens

I had reviewed The War Memorial Gardens last May. But today wasn’t about my view of the park. It was about a group of people, a great group of people I should add, who took some time out of their Sunday, to enjoy a little of the great outdoors. On a slight side note it [...]

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Garden Group Tour ***Closed***

Unknowns to me, the lovely people of the Final Indo printed a blog article – borrowed from the blog here and over the course of the weekend – half the population of North Dublin either rang or called to my house. UNFORTUNATELY….I am limited to 18 people. And all places for this tour filled after [...]

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