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Sculptural and striking garden seat!
Really cool and purty garden seat in my Bloom 2011 show garden – clothes from Arnotts, flowers from Austen flowers if you are wondering When I first saw the images of these steel garden seats on Alex...
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Construction story at Bloom in the park – Giardino della mostra
Ok, so things just got way too busy at Bloom to give you the rest of the updates on construction. Apologies! We obviously finished on time, thanks to huge efforts and ridiculously long hours over...
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Musings on using water in the contemporary garden
Splish, splash, splosh: the tradition of using water in the garden goes back thousands of years. I have waxed hydrologically about the importance of water in garden design before and it is something...
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A garden anywhere
After spotting this planted roof to a bus shelter on Zaragoza’s Paseo Independencia, it made me realise (again) that it truly is possible to grow a garden anywhere. All it takes is a little...
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How to design your garden
Tim is looking forward to visiting Mullingar, Co. Westmeath on Thursday to deliver a garden design talk in aid of the Carers Association. Please contact the Bloomfield Hotel if you would like a...
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Plan a new planting scheme
An area of planting can be reworked to create a new garden scene Now is a great time of year to rework an existing planting scheme if you have an established garden. Quite mature shrubs can be...
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Roots in to the garden!
I was lucky to have the opportunity to deliver a talk about the use of paths in creating interesting garden designs at Garden Show Ireland yesterday and I would like to thank the organisers for...
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Good garden design can be as simple as getting the right plant in the right...
Whilst last week, we looked at some of the graceful floral forerunners of the spring, such as Snowdrop Galanthus nivalis and Winter Aconite Eranthis hyemalis, if we design our gardens carefully there...
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Crazy about colour!
It may sound obvious but colour in the garden can come from both the plants themselves but also the materials that we construct the garden from. The colours that we choose to use in our gardens can...
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Visit to Ballintubbert gardens
The grand canal water feature at Ballintubbert In the summer, our design studio took a study tour to visit some gardens across the southwest of Ireland. En route to Cork, we stopped to have a look at...
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