Trim 2025 – the carbon [r]evolution begins

Before you read this – read Trim 2025 to go carbon neutral
In what may have seemed, to some, like an almost niaive scenario to percieve… it now seems that young Martin Tighe literally has started what is now the most enviable vision ever to evolve worldwide and this one from a town in Ireland called [...]

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Cape Garden Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

Whilst building the garden in the Wallacedene Township in South Africa, I would first like to note that I was a part of a team. A very large team. And I simply played a part.
To that there where so many really good people I met out there. One in particular was a really good guy [...]

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irish conker championship 2009

I said I’d go to Freshford to compete in The Irish Conker Championships …and I did. How did I get on…? Absolutely 110% had an amazing time…. I loved every second of it…
How did I get on in the competition….? Honestly? K.O. ‘d in the first round
I hadn’t trained….
Is it serious [...]

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a gardeners camera…

I thought I had the ultimate camera for a gardener, landscaper, outdoors kind of guy. I did. It broke. I now have the better solution.
The old and now broken Olympus camera [was reviewed here].
A piece of equipment of any kind for any man a horticulturist should really be that little more indestructable. I know that’s [...]

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looking for a painter & decorator in dublin…?

Do you remember the pink boat story….?
I remember when I discovered our ’sponsor’ actually was not ‘going to be involved’.
My head went in my hands. A new low had arrived. Then it was decision time. Could I actually build a garden. With no money. One of my first calls – I rang Dave. He [...]

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