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Retail adaptation: Changing to meet evolving consumers – Eamonn Wall
Eamonn Wall, plant manager at Arboretum Home & Garden Heaven, sheds light on how changing plant buyer behaviour is shaping garden retailing and providing...
Digital growth… How Irish growers and retailers are responding to new...
Horticulture Connected is delighted to feature perspectives on technology use in the Irish sector by two of our most highly regarded early adaptors, Roy...
Revitalising the consumer’s passion for plants – Liam Kelly
Garden retail consultant, Liam Kelly articulates a problem undermining the future of Irish horticulture and presents some creative solutions for how we might collectively...
HC Print Autumn 2014
CONTENTS
NEWS
04 HORTICULTURE NEWS
RETAIL
09 ON THE INSIDE LOOKING OUT
See beyond gardening retail to best practices in other sectors by Liam Kelly
12 CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE
Rachel...
Unheralded arrival of a national landscape strategy? – Terry O’Regan
In the midst of the Kenny and Burton ‘Come Dancing’ performance of the cabinet shuffle and the furore over the ‘Farthing Brook’ on-off farce,...
The female of the species – Michael Gaffney
Entomologist and IPM researcher, Dr. Michael Gaffney puts the problematic vine weevil under the microscope and details just how research he is conducting at...
The cowboys meet their end – Thomas Crummy
ALCI Chairman Thomas Crummy outlines the formation and strategy of the new umbrella association for Irish landscape professionals
The Irish Association of Landscape Industries (IALI)...
Autumn 2014 – Horticulture News
IOH ACHIEVES CHARTERED STATUS
In July 2014 the new Chartered Institute of Horticulture (CIH) came into being. It replaced the Institute of Horticulture (IoH), which...
How to design and build a show stopper
HORTICULTURECONNECTED talks to the experts
Creating a gold medal-winning show garden requires many things: time, energy, skill, knowledge, experience, determination, creativity, commitment, a thick skin...
Landscape contracts: the small prints – Colm Kenny
Landscape estimating specialist Colm Kenny explains the important role landscape contracts play in underpinning quality, equity and profits and why their use and misuse...