bishop lucey park, cork

I suppose I did fit a lot in while I was in Cork. But, although I ‘ve been to Cork so many times I never really took my time in this park. It’s only a small one but I like it. It’s got charachter. At the time the Coproration were taking down the Christmas decorations [...]

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what can you do for 3 €uro…?

When I first got this email in I kind of thought a fliipin’ hedgelayers association ?!! But. This is a brilliant €3 THREE EURO spend. Before I go any further if anyone says how much is it for children or OAP’s… it’s €3… [re-read press release ooops €3 for adults it says] when: Saturday 7th [...]

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small garden… any ideas?

Whether small or large, the size is irrelevant, your garden should still be given the same amount of thought, detail and attention as any other. If you are looking for ideas, you’ve had enough of the January blues and February is the month you really need to make life that little bit brighter… Then here [...]

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collision course…

The title might suggest I went head to head with some pot plants or crashed into a tree that was doing ’70 down the motorway… Essentially, this has nothing to do with ‘horticulture’. But it does. Sometimes I do greener things that are more relevent to my business. But in my life, my hobby nee [...]

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activity in the garden this month…

You may think there is little to do in the brrrr freezing cold this January. But, it is what you do now that will prove so fruitful in a few months time. Aside from the aesthetic gains to be reaped and after listening to RTE1 for too long recently – where the news, primetime and [...]

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top posts for december

the top posts for November were getting back to a more horticultural nature and December a little moreso again – but – I still don’t understand why a post on taxi ranks has rated in the top 10 since it was written….? Maybe someone can tell me? That said, I still have to publish the [...]

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oh brother, where art thou?

I did write about it. But when I went via Damien’s Blog, the daily fluffy’s showed a constant stream of people around the world wanting our brother back? So why is the news hitting the Donegan Landscaping pages. For a second – my writings here are of those related to landscaping. It maybe slightly removed [...]

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thomas… thursday garden guest #10

If you would like to know more about Thursday Garden Guest time – click here For the moment the writer in the finalé of this series is Thomas & Máire of Irish Allotments. It’s quite fitting that through the series of articles we have had the botantist, the plant hobby-ist right down to the one [...]

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doneraile park

On my winter holidays and travelling from Limerick to Cork I needed a fix. I needed to see a park. I had to. I found one. There was some works going on in the car park. That didn’t matter. It wasn’t Stephens green. It didn’t have to be. It was Doneraile Park. It was January. [...]

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beautiful & guaranteed irish [part 2]

Before you read this post please read beautiful and guaranteed Irish – part 1[clck here] Of course part of the reason I went to Limerick was to visit some good great friends. [Pictured left is T.J. and John Donegan [no relation - he was just in the bar that evening and decided to say hello [...]

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beautiful & guaranteed irish [part 1]

As I write this post I’m in the beautiful city of Cork [i'm back in work by the time you read it]. I’ve just left Limerick. It is after all my summer holidays I [and her indoors] made a concious decision to keep our euros in Ireland this year. I heard the media hype up [...]

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jackie…. thursday garden guest #9

If you’d like to know more about Thursday garden guest time – click here For the moment, garden guest #9 is Jackie Danicki. If you know a little more about computers than I do anything about technology, then you will probably know this lady as part of the QiK.com team. My intro to Jackie came [...]

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2008, a good year…?

Another year over and what can I say?!! In short 2008 was the greatest roller coaster of a year since I first set up Donegan Landscaping over 8 years ago now. We had some really great,challenging and exciting projects to work on and that of course is down to really amazing Clients. I thank you [...]

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the garden guest sessions…

This year and trickling into next, The Thursday Garden Guest Sessions were an absolute success. 10 guests speakers, self nominated and at random, first come first selected took it upon themselves to tell their story of ‘The Garden – What I like about…’. And so to the next Thursday Garden Guest sessions. The name is [...]

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i want that one…

Christmas trees! I love this time of year… I just love it! While you’re at the turkey stuff the begrudgers, the doom and gloomers and anybody else who’s a pain in the tuschie, take out the mistletoe and have a mince pie. It is the season to be jolly – and don’t you forget it [...]

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