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Ever Wondered What It Takes To Grow A Plant…?

Post author By Peter Donegan
Post date November 1, 2009
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October Bank Holiday Weekend, I went to Kilkenny. I had so much to do….

On my agenda was to meet my good friend & plant inventor Pat Fitzgerald.

I had interviewed Pat for the blog before. I had also worked with Pat on so many of my projects and gardens… but I’d never seen his nursery. The place, his place to be more exact, the place where the plants I have designed into projects, designs and gardens are born, reared and looked after. This is where I started to get excited….

Excited ? About plants…? On a bank holiday weekend…? Have I nothing else better to be doing…? I wouldn’t swap what I love doing so much for anything else in the world 😆

Pat, in my opinion 😉 is a little bit special in the Irish context of horticulture in that 85-90% of his plants are exported to places like Japan & The USA.. thats a total of almost 3.5 million plants as a by the way…. not bad?!!

*disclaimer: I’ve never received money from Pat for anything I have ever done. I simply think he’s got a different and an interesting story. More than that… he’s one of lifes good guys. More importantly, he’s got a sense of humour and enjoys a pint on a Friday night. shame I have to put a disclaimer in at all being honest….

Heres’s the first video I did with Pat… nice story 😉

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10 green oddities…

Phil O kane. Photo Blogger. Absolute Genius. I love this ladybird one. Go to the nature section. Brilliant.
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The hilarious adventures of Ben Kenealy, a patio furniture set and his Dad – it’s amazing how funny life is when a 10% OAP’s discount is at stake.

researchers are considering using radioactive land to grow biofuels reports Susan Kreamer of Gas 2.0 – bicycle?

Galway City Council. Want to rip through Terryland People’s Forest. They believe redirecting the traffic through the park is of more benefit to….. the people. The people don’t think so. Allan summises the story extremely well here. They are also responsible [?!!] for this park [?] and this park [?]

on the subject of turf – croke parks new turf will be grown in Scunthorpe reports the Irish Examiner. One or two tried to make a bigger story out of it. I’m just glad they’re getting on with the game. I don’t believe we grow that kind of turf in Ireland anyway.

I asked if anyone had a an amazing guaranteed Irish product that was super dooper and worthy of a mention? Dee replied 😉 Her website is www.dees.ie; she’s also on facebook as Dees and guess what? Dee is on twitter. Here’s what she said

Organic Guaranteed Irish Wholefoods Burgers, suitable for coeliacs and vegans & Handmade in Cork – Invented by myself Dee.

I am putting all of my photographs on pix.ie – slowly but surely. Genius site. Irish owned and run and the staff are really cool – when I have a wee problem. Thanks lads.

sesame seeds recalled over salmonella report the Irish Times

I’ve also started to throw the odd video that I make up on the donegan landscaping youtube channel

and finally this. Not the greatest quality…. but still extremely funny

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how green is…. joerg steegmueller

Post author By Peter Donegan
Post date July 16, 2009
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Introduced to me through my good friend Darragh Doyle, recently I had the privelige to meet with Joerg Steegmueller of The Dublin Event Guide. Apart from being one of the most interesting people I have ever met, Joerg is also one of lifes genuine nice guys… plus he has a sense of humour 😉

Have a look and see what you think.

ps: normal horticulture resumes on monday 😆
ps: email Joerg dublineventguide [at] gmail [dot] com to subscribe

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a little humour… ?

peter donegan landscape garden hanging basket dublin — hmmmm....

I found this in the back of an old diary [from way back]. I said it was *a little* humour.. and that’s all it is. 😀

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head and shoulders above…

Post author By Peter Donegan
Post date October 17, 2007
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after my last post and my previous attempt at humour. This may make amends for it… just or make things worse? Titled head and shoulders above… this postcard was sent to clients to say thank you for working with us. Although all were grateful of the sentiment, most were not so in awe of my sense of humour!

‘Stick to horticulture‘ replied one client…

slan go foill

peter

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