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Lasting experience

With the sector reinvesting in training and coming together in recognition of the importance of practical experience, Donall Flanagan, lecturer in horticulture with Teagasc,...
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,...
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...
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’...
A smartphone controlling the turf grass.

Precision greenkeeping

Eamon Kealy, turfgrass specialist and lecturer in horticulture at Teagasc, Kildalton, taps into the latest technological advances and finds water and electronics can go...
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...

All the latest news from Bord Bia

GROMόR Bord Bia is delighted to be involved, once again, in supporting the GroMór gardening promotional campaign. With 66 REI Garden Centre Group members, and...
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...
Garden Café Team - (From Left) Peter Donegan, Anthony Heijanga (Guest), Marie Staunton, Sile Seoige, Eugene Higgins

HC Spring 2016 – Horticulture news

NEW ‘GARDEN CAFÉ’ RADIO SHOW SEEKING A SPONSOR A new radio show ‘Garden Café’ is currently under development and seeking interested sponsors. Creator Eugene Higgins...
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...