The thoughts and ramblings of a landscape gardener…
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, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on Jun 6th, 2008
when I started this journey some people laughed. I was happy they smiled, how or why is irrelevant I suppose. Maybe some people thought I did this garden for some alternate reasons or other [?]. I didn’t. I had no sponsor. I had no money. I just had a dream to create. I still have. [...]
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on Jun 3rd, 2008
that is the simple question… I have two options.
One it goes to a good home for restoration or for a garden OR it gets put into a large skip.
It must be out of the park by this weekend and the boat movers must be booked pretty much as soon as possible.
Any suggestions, sooner rather than [...]
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on May 31st, 2008
Tully Nurseries Ltd. – master plant grower
Deidre Breathnach - wexfords very own Da Vinci
Maura Hickey - the finest photographer in Ireland
B.D.F Commercials Ltd – suppliers of products from my imagination and storage
D.B. Painters – decoration and painting
Patrick Campbell (& Veronica) – sculptor of all things
Gormleys Fine Art - beautiful
Atfar Construction – civil engineers, [...]
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on May 11th, 2008
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on Apr 29th, 2008
Award winning landscape architect, Peter Donegan, is at it again. This year his show garden ‘Pour L‘amour de Jeux’ (For a love of the game) in Bloom 2008 will feature a 1957, 11 metre, pink, three storey pleasure cruise boat!
Building on the success of ‘No Rubber Soul’ his award winning large show garden in Bloom [...]
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on Apr 27th, 2008
After an early rise this morning to admire the beauty around me I went to Malahide, North Dublin to see the bi-annual boat show.
One of the reasons I wanted to go was to see if there was anything I could do more to add to the ‘thats an unusual [pink boat all included] garden’ tag [...]
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on Apr 23rd, 2008
since my last posts things have heated up, slightly! But a decision has been made by the Donegan Landscaping team not to release any [semi complete] photographs of the boat until in its fullest glory - and I can assure you D. B. Painters, Noel & the B.D.F. Commercials team are 99% complete on what [...]
Posted in every post to date, my ireland on Apr 15th, 2008
this picture [above] was taken at last years bloom in the park and emailed to me by a colleague after the June Bank Holiday weekend - That same colleague emailed me again today with the same title wishing me luck in this years Bloom 2008 with this photograph of myself and our new Taoiseach Brian Cowan….
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on Apr 8th, 2008
Friday 4th April saw a host of garden designers meet at the site where the bloom show gardens will be built. If you are near the visitor centre in the peoples park, the garden will be sited just in front of the playground and next to the walled garden of last years Bloom.
So how is [...]
