December In The Garden

And what an end to November and a start to the month it has been…
Firstly to those affected in any way by the adverse weather conditions…. my sincerest best wishes to you all, I hope it sorts itself out as soon as possible. To those who chose to stand up to the Green Party politicos  [especially [...]

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the NMTT gardeners family weekend line up

related posts worth reading:

A who’s who of whats on – click here
How to get to the Garden Exhibition Centre – click here
Make a donation online to the Fundraiser- click here

Any further information – to contact peter – click here

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fingal support for the NMTT gardeners w/e

A most welcome story in this weeks Fingal Independent in support of my trip to South Africa [click here for more info] included this beautiful picture of my delightfully tanned legs in it…. how I let myself down sometimes
Thanks lads really appreciated.
Donations can be made here

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getting to the NMTT family gardeners weekend

Have you read all about the event thats taking place this weekend at The National Garden Exhibition Centre. The one you have been donating to so kindly so you can have some peace and quiet in Ireland for a little

Here’s how you get there
By DART
get the DART to bray and then Dublin [...]

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Garden Group Gets Grooving…

I put out a post 9 days ago to see if people would be interested in a garden group…. ?
The response was great – but most replies came in via email. Which is still cool. But like all of you… theres that whole thing called work and more important – I’d also like this to [...]

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how green is…. joerg steegmueller

Introduced to me through my good friend Darragh Doyle, recently I had the privelige to meet with Joerg Steegmueller of The Dublin Event Guide. Apart from being one of the most interesting people I have ever met, Joerg is also one of  lifes genuine nice guys… plus he has a sense of humour [...]

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dis – assembling a garden shed…?

I don’t need help asking for directions… I don’t need you to help me… and I’ll take that shed down with one swift blow of a sledge hammer….
Want to do ‘man things‘ this weekend?
But you ‘have to‘ do it ‘nice and neatly‘ …?
….and don’t forget to ‘tidy those tools away when you’re finished….‘
When I was [...]

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small gardens [more] ideas

I had a root through the statistics on the web-blog recently and it seems that for the most part one of the greatest interests is in that of small gardens and getting some ideas….
With that in mind I rumaged through the archives to find some images that may help you a little better along the [...]

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the war memorial park

I don’t think I’ve been to this park since I was about 18 years old. For no apparent reason. [It is where I was once employed.] But it has to be said, if there is a park comparable to poetry…. This *is* it! I’ve missed it…
The history, the story, the layout, in it’s entirety… I [...]

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the farmers market, portmarnock

On Sunday[17th May '09] I took a trip out to my folks home town. I had heard about this new one… but I was unsure. I have this image in my head that there’s a lady who goes out on a Friday, takes a few turnips from the garden, pops ‘em into a tweed satchel [...]

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