13.5 the lucky number for 2014
ALCI President Peter O’Toole outlines how work undertaken by the association to secure landscape work as part of the Home Renovation Incentive Scheme could...
How to design and build a show stopper
HORTICULTURECONNECTED talks to the experts
Creating a gold medal-winning show garden requires many things: time, energy, skill, knowledge, experience, determination, creativity, commitment, a thick skin...
Tree specification – The basics – John Murphy
In the first of a series of articles, John Murphy, respected nurseryman, and owner of Annaveigh Plants addresses a growing knowledge deficit by getting...
Employment Opportunities in the Office of Public Works
Head Craft Gardener at Garinish Island, Co. Cork
Competition Reference: 2021/018
Applications are invited for the above positions. Competition details and application forms are available at...
A view from the urban forest – Aidan J ffrench
Trees and development - same old story? This opinion piece is written by Aidan J ffrench from a personal perspective, formed by the daily...
Change underfoot
Dr. Christy Boylan examines how Ireland’s parks and green spaces are evolving to meet the new challenges
The original concept of public parks was influenced by the...
Revitalising the consumer’s passion for plants – Liam Kelly
Garden retail consultant, Liam Kelly articulates a problem undermining the future of Irish horticulture and presents some creative solutions for how we might collectively...
A long story – Barry Lupton
Barry Lupton interviews Mark Long
Living Flavours was one of Irish horticulture’s success stories. The product of hard work, determination, innovation and nerve, its rise...
Where floral art & horticulture meet – Kitty Gallagher
By Kitty Gallagher, President of the World Association of Flower Arrangers (WAFA) and organiser of the World Flower Show, Dublin, 2014.
Floral art is one...
Trends in the landscape of man
Tony Williams, President of the Irish Landscape Institute, outlines how challenges and opportunities facing his profession may impact upon the horticulture sector and our nation as...