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 [...]
{ all posts, services } { 4 comments }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 [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { One comment }Bloom 2010 – reviewed
If you did read my post on Thursday, you would have got my recommendations for Bloom In The Park 2010. And so I went along again on Sunday and Monday. The weather was cracking for most of Bloom, but the last two days meant the umbrella’s had to come out. But then, this is Ireland… [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 3 comments }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 [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 7 comments }Garden Of Hope 2010
The Niall Mellon Office have been on the phone. I got a call saying thanks for signing up. I did… when ? yeah sure why not….. Last year I had to raise €5k and did the table quiz, the poker night, the gardeners weekend, the famous picture also got a couple of hundred in and [...]
{ all posts, thinking of others } { 0 comments }Irish Times 31st May 2010
I got a call last week from Conor. He was doing this article on Grow Your Own and asked for some thoughts. To the pieces I know that I have written that may refer to my quotes below. Grow your own kits cheaper than B and Q. I think it’s a logic alternate piece. There [...]
{ all posts, media } { 2 comments }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 [...]
{ all posts, media } { 4 comments }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 [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 0 comments }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 [...]
{ all posts, techie } { 0 comments }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 [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 24 comments }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 [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 0 comments }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 [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 2 comments }A Gardening Course …?
update 13th March 2010: One space has become available… pop your name down below, email or text me if your interested Over the last weeks I’ve been researching chatting with some friends about gardening and the usual how to bits of outdoor advice. From those conversations came the suggestion that I should do a crash [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 27 comments }Iveagh Gardens, Dublin
It was last month when I chose to visit the Iveagh Gardens just north of St Stephens Green. On the whole, I like the Iveagh Gardens. I like the layout, the sunken lawn and the symetry of the main features. But on this occasion I was a bit surprised with some elements of the grounds. [...]
{ all posts, parks & places } { 0 comments }St Valentines Shouldn’t Cost The Earth …?
I got a ghetto blaster for Valentines day……. Look! It’s even got a twin deck record cassette system…. I reeeeaaaally L-O-V-E that gurl…. For me, when I got to about the age of 22, the big splash had been made. I bought her a VHS player…. ja uber romantische! but that was pre jewelery days [...]
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