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PHOTOS BY: MARYANN HARRIS (POPPINTREE PARK)

Dublin – A city of wetlands

Maryann Harris, Senior Executive Parks Superintendent, Dublin City Council presents a number of recent landscape projects which place horticulture at the forefront of flood...
Ruth Monahan

Logistical Aesthetics

Operating a successful horticulture business is both an art and a science. This is no better represented than in the field of floristry, a...
BLOOM 2016 PADRAIC WOODS: SHARING THE LOAD BY PADRAIC WOODS’ EXPLORES THE COMPLEX ISSUES OF MENTAL HEALTH IN IRELAND

Ready to Bloom

With May just around the corner, Bloom Show Garden Manager, Kerrie Gardiner explains how a number of new initiatives will help to make this...
JOHN MULHERN

Apprenticeship 2.0

John Mulhern, Principal of College of Amenity Horticulture, National Botanic Gardens explains how the history of horticultural training may well define the future of...
PHOTO BY: CLIVE NICHOLS

Ebb & Flow

Patricia Tyrell, Chairperson of the Garden and Landscape Designers Association, reviews the hugely successful 20th-anniversary design seminar The GLDA’s 20th Anniversary Seminar ‘Ebb & Flow’...
2016

Design and build Outlook 2016

From conversations with people working in all aspects of the design and build sector, it would seem we have reason to be optimistic. Enquiries,...
STIOFÁN NUTTY

The Horticulture Industry Forum

Independent consultant and HIF Coordinator, Stiofán Nutty, explains how fresh produce growers are uniting under the new body to benefit all The idea of forming...
One of the GroMór posters being used across the country.

Growing momentum

Sandra Doran of Retail Excellence Ireland tracks the success and challenges of GroMór in 2015 and sets out plans for how the industry-driven initiative...
A rainbow ombrella. PHOTOS BY COSPV

The real cover story

Retail consultant Liam Kelly explores the benefits of a covered plant sales area and best-practice in design and location WHAT A WINTER From last November to...
Peter Alley; PHOTO: FRANK ALLEY

Remembering Peter Alley

REMEMBERING PETER ALLEY One of the great things about the horticulture sector is the people involved, and earlier this year we lost one of the...

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Dublin
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