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...
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...
HC Spring 2016
Contents
NEWS
02 HORTICULTURE NEWS
EVENTS
06 Horticulture Trade Events
BORD BIA
07 All of the latest news, events and updates from Bord Bia
RETAIL
11 THE REAL COVER STORY
Liam Kelly explores...
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...
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...
Dublin’s invasive action plan
Maryann Harris, Senior Executive Parks Superintendent shares Dublin City Council’s new action plan for dealing with invasive alien species
Dublin City Council(DCC) is the first...
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...
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’...
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...
Coillte Gift Native Trees to ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Award Winners for 2020
Coillte are delighted to partner with ECO-UNESCO for this year’s Young Environmentalist Awards – gifting over 100 native saplings to this year’s winners.
ECO-UNESCO’s Young...