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A new horizon for horticulture at UCD

As the incidence of Covid-19 disease in the country continues to diminish the number of track and trace centres required have been reduced. As...
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Our Garden – The Great Escape of COVID-19 The Covid-19 pandemic has been an immensely difficult time for people living in Ireland and around the...

New safety guidelines onsite

Design by Nature has successfully conveyed to sectors of the infrastructure industry and some of the main contractors they work with that all sites...
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Hygeia’s nature safe range and BioGold Vigor

After the recent rainfall, now is the ideal time to put goodness back in soils and also provide plants with all the nutrient requirements...
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5 Steps to grow your business online – Rory O’Connor

Rory O’Connor explains how going digital can help your garden retail business thrive, despite the pandemic Digitalisation has never been more relevant to businesses within...
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The art of digging holes – Terry O’Regan

Retired landscape horticulturist, Terry O’Regan, continues his series of articles reflecting on his adventures in the landscape sector I cleared out the office belonging to...
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Design lessons from a pandemic – Patricia Tyrell

Patricia Tyrell speaks to fellow GLDA members on their thoughts during the lockdown and on the future of horticulture post-COVID 19 As lockdown came into...
THE RARE GREEN-WINGED ORCHID (ANACAMPTIS MORIO) APPEARED IN A PORTLAOISE HOUSING ESTATE LAWN WHEN MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL WERE KEPT OUT BY LOCKDOWN RESTRICTIONS. CLASSED AS ‘VULNERABLE’ IN IRELAND’S 2016 RED DATA LIST OF VASCULAR PLANTS, THIS MEANS IT HAS DECLINED BY AS MUCH AS 49% IN ITS AREA OF OCCUPANCY. PHOTO: DR FIONA MACGOWAN, CONSULTANT ECOLOGIST AND BOTANIST.

Corona time and ecological recovery – Féidhlim Harty

Writing during the lockdown, Féidhlim Harty asks, has the pandemic been all bad for the planet or society? Last year, both British and Irish governments...

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