The thoughts and ramblings of a landscape gardener…
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on Aug 15th, 2008
not long to go now. This pic courtesy of ‘C’. Appreciated. See you at the picnic folks! Of course it all started on the rick show… As long as I’m not confused with the lead singer of Franz Ferdinand [great band by the way]… Darren [the legend.. with odd music tastes!] thinks I look [...]
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 31st, 2008
· Helleborus orientalis 1 Litre
· Digitalis purpurea ‘Torpedo Lilac’ 1.5 Litre
· Doronicum caucasicum ‘Little Leo’ 1.5 Litre
· Agapanthus ‘Midnight Blue’ 30-35cm 2 Litre
· Astilbe x arendsii ‘Fanal’ 2 Litre
· Astilbe ‘Gladstone’ 2 Litre
· Brunnera macrophylla 2 Litre
· Carex comans ‘Bronze Form’ 2 Litre
· Carex morrowii ‘Evergold’ 2 Litre
· Cortaderia selloana ‘Pumila’ 2 [...]
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on May 8th, 2008
This morning at 5.45 am after 11 long hours labour, Pour L’amour de Jeux finally gave berth to a 7 tonne, 11 metre long Pink Boat in the Phoenix Park Dublin.
With amazing help from John Farrell, John Friel, Whittens Road Haulage, The Garda Suíochana, Maura Hickey, Colin Browne and Gráinne Walker; this journey was finally [...]
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 2nd, 2008
…. the paint colour has been selected for our main feature for Bloom 2008 and thank must go to D.B. Painters [David Behan Painting & Decorating 0872551928 - pictured above], for looking after this. Whilst Nicola is still on board to hand paint the boats name, the mammoth task of giving rebirth to ‘Mo Cailín [...]
Posted in every post to date, the pink boat - bloom 2008 on Mar 20th, 2008
yesterday was not the most usual of days in my horticultural career! This 1957, 33 foot, 7 tonne boat is the model Royal Cruiser IV that will be used in Bloom 2008, the garden show extravaganza in the Phoenix Park this June Bank Holiday weekend.
It took 7 men, a 30 tonne specialist marine transporter and [...]
