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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Irish Garden Radio – Podcast For The Weekend

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 ? Podcast links: cutting hedges – how do you do yours ? diana the hen ran away from home 12 new plants [...]

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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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Bloom 2010

As always you can rss the podcasts via iTunes or direct via audioboo To all things Bloom, once again, I quote myself from last year: To only mention the gardens is, maybe, what I should be doing…. but, as a garden builder and designer at Bloom – they are all [seriously] amazing and I simply [...]

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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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Hello Ireland…..? It’s Getting Greener Online

In a world were some people wonder why I write a weblog…. two milestones [?] took place very recently. First, Philip Voice of the Landscape Juice Network announced. Surprised ? It wouldn’t be the first time websites have been sponsored. I think it may just surprise to [some] of the green Irish…? Either or, in [...]

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Another Grow Your Own Gardening Course

NEXT CLASS: tomorrow saturday April 17th 9.30am – 3.30pm ***if you are stuck for directions to Ballyboughal and then to my house you can contact me on [vodafone prefix and then add....]6594688 I did the grow your own gardening course about 2/3 weeks ago now…. It wasn’t until I was out recently at an event [...]

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The Grow Your Own Gardening Class

It was a weekend ago that I decided to do the grow your own gardening course. And whilst the weather turned good I had to wait ’til now to do my synopsis of it. How did it go…? Louise did a review under the title dirty fingernails and Jason reviewed it under the title some [...]

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straw grass…?

I get loads of these…. some one liners…. some emails. Some without pictures But I try my best and quite enjoy answering them being honest Email in on Saturday from Melanie. Hi Peter, Thanks for this, myself and Alex are full of enthusiasm for the garden at the moment but neither of us have much [...]

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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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Gardening…. It’s Kids Stuff

You may remember I was asked to do a gardening class at the La Leche League of Ireland annual conference. On Saturday 6th March I travelled to Maynooth Co. Kildare to do just that. I know I’ll be doing a gardening course soon, but, there are some obvious major differences in the populus breakdown of [...]

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Which Compost To Buy

Buying compost for some, is possibly a little like me trying to figure which washing powder I am supposed to put in the supermarket trolley. It wasn’t always like that…. I couldn’t believe it when in the garden centre recently the amount of types variations in labells one could buy. It’s seemed extremely confusing to [...]

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