CONTENTS
NEWS
GENERAL
06 BORD BIA AWARDS
Ireland’s top horticulture businesses
RETAIL
10 THIS COUNTS
Leading retail consultant Liam Kelly explores positive and negative impacts on discount chains on the Irish gardening market and provides some tips on how you can learn from what they do
DESIGN
14 STRIPPED BACK
Renowned garden writer and plantswomen, Helen Rock strips away the layers of the recent GLDA design seminar to reveal some inspiring insights
NURSERY
17 WATER WISE
Paul Kunkels, owner and operator of Irritec, traces the lines of irrigation history and provides some insightful guidance on how to make the right decisions about water use and conservation
20 GAMBLE AND GROW
Barry Lupton interviews one of Ireland’s more well- known and respected nursery owners, John Murphy of Annaveigh Plants
IN PICTURES
24 APRIL IN PICTURES
Rentes Plants Spring Fair, IHNSA Trolley Fair, Pat Fitzgerald Seminar & Northern Ireland Trolley Fair
CONSTRUCTION
28 A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LANDSCAPE TENDERING
Colm Kenny, landscape cost estimating expert, shares some tips and tricks on how to avoid the pitfalls of landscape tendering
31 TIME TO HAND OVER THE KEYS
Peter O’Toole, President of the ALCI and Director of Peter O’Brien Landscaping, articulates some tough questions or Ireland’s aging landscape construction sector
LANDSCAPE
34 INVASIVE SPECIES, THE LAW AND YOUR BUSINESS
Kieran Cummins, environmental law specialist, details the legal issues surrounding invasive species in Ireland and the implications they have for your business
TREES
36 A VIEW FROM THE URBAN FOREST
Trees and development – same old story? An opinion piece written by Aidan J ffrench
INSIGHT
40 A SPECIFIC LANDSCAPE PROBLEM
Featuring Thomas Crummy, Maryann Harris, Ronan Nangle & Terry O’Regan
SPORTS TURF
42 THINNING THE SWARD
Eamon Kealy, turfgrass specialist and lecturer in horticulture at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, sets out a concise strategy for managing areas of heavy rough on Ireland’s golf courses
FLORISTRY
44 WHERE FLORAL ART & HORTICULTURE MEET
By Kitty Gallagher, President of the World Association of Flower Arrangers (WAFA) and organiser of the World Flower Show, Dublin, 2014
