related posts worth reading:
- A who’s who of whats on – click here
- How to get to the Garden Exhibition Centre – click here
- Make a donation online to the Fundraiser- click here
- Any further information – to contact peter – click here
Category: Garden Talks and Events with Peter Donegan
Garden talk guest lectures and events with Landscape Designer Peter Donegan
Have you read all about the event thats taking place this weekend at The National Garden Exhibition Centre. The one you have been donating to so kindly so you can have some peace and quiet in Ireland for a little 😆
Here’s how you get there
By DART
get the DART to bray and then Dublin Bus 184 from outside the DART station you will need to hop off at Burtons 4×4 garage and from there a 3 minute walk [approx] will bring you to Kilquade Church which is directly opposite the Garden Exhibition Centre.
By Bus
Bus Eireann bus number 133 from the City Centre will leave you a 1 mile walk away from the National Garden Exhibition Centre
By Car/ motorbike/ bicycle/ very long walk
If you have a sat nav here are the co ordinates to the Garden Exhibition Centre.
53.111132,-6.090202
If you don’t have satellite navigation. Here are the directions. I took them with Dublin Airport as the starting point.
If you don’t live in Dublin Airport 😉 Just click here and add in your own place of departure. Time from Dublin Airport is about 41 minutes by car.
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Dublin Airport
Co. Fingal, Ireland
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| 1. | Head south toward Swords Rd |
75Â m
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| 2. | Continue straight |
0.3Â km
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| 3. | At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit |
0.5Â km
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| 4. | Slight left at Dublin Rd
Go through 1 roundabout
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0.9Â km
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| 5. | At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto the M1 ramp |
0.7Â km
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| 6. | Merge onto M1 |
1.1Â km
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| 7. | At junction 1, take the M50 exit to N81/N4/N11/N3/N7/N2 |
0.4Â km
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| 8. | At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto M50
Partial toll road
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38.8Â km
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| 9. | Continue on M11 |
3.7Â km
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| 10. | Continue on N11 |
10.7Â km
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| 11. | Turn left toward New Russian Village (signs for Cill Chomhaid/Kilquade) |
0.8Â km
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| 12. | Slight right at New Russian Village
Destination will be on the right
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0.3Â km
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National Garden Exhibition Centre
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If you can’t go – maybe you know someone who can or who could help out on the day. You can make an online donation securely [click here]. Or if you have a blog/ a twitter/ a FB/ a newspaper/ a radio – you could repost this – it really is so very much appreciated
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the guide to the event:
- How to get to the Garden Exhibition Centre – click here
- Make a donation online to the Fundraiser- click here
- the line up and times for the w/e
- Any further information – to contact peter – click here
- for those who attend and have blogs/ twitter/ etc please can you tag your stories and videos with the hashtag #NMTTgarden
and what a fantastic weekend its lining up to be…. please if you have a blog/ a twitter/ a FB/ a newspaper/ a radio – can you repost this – it really is so very much appreciated 🙂
If you can’t go – maybe you know someone who can or who could help out on the day… to make an online donation securely – click here
Saturday & Sunday 12th & 13th of September 2009 sees some of Irelands top horticulturalists come together at the Garden Exhibition Centre in Kilquade to raise awareness and funds for Peter Donegan to travel to South Arica in what is his third year building community gardens. 28 stunning sample gardens, cream cakes and great coffee, pet arena, garden guest speakers with Q& A sessions and live music and a host of activities for family and children. All for the price of a donation.
Because of your 10 cents, your 10 euro or even your very much appreciated 10 minutes I have managed to go there for the last 2 years. This year, this November I’m going again. The event above is gonna be a jam packed family day out with soooooo much to do and plenty for the gardener, the non gardener or the wannabe gardener…. Take a look at what the garden of hope team managed last year….
here’s a taster of what will be on offer and a little information on the charity….
it’s going to be held in the garden Exhibition Centre in Kilquade which is already an amazing place here’s some of what they have to offer….
not only that…. but the very kind gentlemen of The Riptide Movement – a band that are booked to play support for none other than Fleetwood Mac in the o2 😆 are coming along on the Sunday to play some tunes from their debut album….
I’ll keep you updated here….. btw… you can also stick a big fat cheque in an envelope – donate your time or whatever you got going 😉 and or you can click here and throw in your few cents.
I hope to see you there. Thank you 🙂
PS: on facebook events – click here
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remember the red satellite…. ?
for one weekend only it made it’s first ever public apearance…
Many thanks to Conor McCabe of Jason Clarke Photography for these…
I don’t know where Ken disappeared to…. ? anyhow 😉 above is myself, Cllr Emer Costello, Lord Mayor of dublin and Liam from Bagatelle
Of course it was all for the Urban Garden Smithfield [reviewed here] event that took place over the weekend and part of the garden I was built there
Here’s a brief taster of what also took place there…
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The previous article may explain why I got involved in urban garden [click here for previous article] … but I think you’ll find Mary Wier of [and] Dublin City Council organised a day that held in store a lot more than just a good looking horticulturist […that’d be me by the way]. The day really did make a difference.
We do need to make an effort to green up ‘our’ spaces.
I hope you enjoyed it and more importantly I hope ‘you’ took something home with you from the day [apart from a big smile] that will help you green up ‘your’ space.
