This Donegan household this evening….
Thank you all so much for everything this year. You’ve been amazing.
Happy Days.
Nollaig Shona
x Peter
Tag: landscaping
For those looking for that instant effect, immediate colour or simply a softening of your space outdoors, sometimes the simplest way to achieve this is through instant gardening. How it works is very simple.
- Planters are pre-made off site with a pre-selected choice of best look plants
- Hand picked to suit your favourite colours and textures
- And chosen with only your business and/ or home in mind
- Carefully positioned, delivered and placed right at your door or place of choice
In this, plant choice will and can vary from individual to business and from desired placing to season. I have personally found that most choose the following:
- Mildly scented yet neutral in colour on business/ office entrances
- herb, salad or/ and fruiting choices by kitchen and eating areas
- stunning, attractive and stand out for openings, ceromonies and occasions
- pretty, instant and welcoming by dwelling and homely places
Planting style aside, in your space you may decide on choosing the following containers
- hanging baskets
- window boxes
- pots and planters
- raised beds
- something that little more unusual
- or a one off just for you
Of course this can be tailored once again to suit your specific space and all fixtures and fittings can be supplied and fitted. I personally like the fact that, if you do feel that after some time that you need that little change…
- not all plants or any [depending on what you choose] will need to be replaced
- the planters won’t need to be replaced at all
- and the same planters can simply be painted a different colour
Although some do choose to ask for something that mild bit different and one off in general most types, styles and wishes can be discussed and ordered by phone or email and designed/ pre arranged to suit your budget. After that, you simply continue on about your daily routine and let me look after the dirty work.
What do you do next….
You can contact me in the following ways:
- send an email to info@DoneganLandscaping.com
- telephone me direct on 087-6594688
- or enquire via the contact page on DoneganLandscaping.com
No matter how unusual the request may be….. I can make it happen for you.
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The bird box has always been something I’ve queried. I don’t know why. I just feel/ felt that they would always be better off making their own. Is that fair to say….? Either or, I wanted two in the garden just for the craic of it. You know, to see would they come.
These two bird boxes were made some weeks ago from an old timber wine box and given a lick of whatever colour was nearest/ lying around paint.
Fairly simple to make, they are also another variation of if I got these as a gift would I be impressed ? You better believe it. I’ve seen sites selling these for upwards of €30 each.
My Total Costs. €0.00
If you fancy having a go making them yourself… bear in mind, the bird really doesn’t care if you have not been meticulous in your efforts and from your aesthetic perspective, depending on your skills, a lick of paint will hide everything a lot.
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The only things I really need to be careful of is that the box itself isn’t south facing. Logic applies here so you don’t cook the birds. Other than that its keep it about 2-3 metres off the ground and although there are site suggestions of when you should put them up…. I’m not going to pay any attention to that. If the winter guys wanna nest in them, it’s there for the taking. If not they’ll be there for the summer fella’s.
The only note I will make is not to tighten the screws too much so you can flip them over and tip out the previous years unwanted nest.
I could give instructions on how these were made, but the photos say it all pretty much.
More birds to help me eat my raspberries next year 😀
image courtesy brian greene
For those who don’t know what the dotconf was – this post on the dot conf may explain better.
But, it is not until after the hindsight has kicked in that one really realises just how and what audioboo has helped. This was kicked off by Bernie, via podcast of course.
I followed Bernie’s path with my thoughts on podcasting and in particular audioboo as my tool of choice.
So what can you take from this? A good start, from a gardeners perspective, can be made by taking a trip over to audioboo.fm and after that it’s up to you whether you choose to add to the conversation or simply listen. Either or one cannot disagree that the listening to alone is giving radio, maybe of a different format, an entirely fresh and most welcome new lease of life.
Of course it would not have been possible without the people behind the scenes….
Personally, I like this little chat of a podcast that was recorded just after Bernie, Mark and myself had completed our deep dive audioboo sessions. On top of the National College of Ireland. 🙂
Still unsure… my numbers below, the coffee pot is on or you can send me an email or leave a comment below 😉
For me personally, I just find it amazing that an entire post is put together by seperate audio clips, taken over varying days that join together and make complete one blog post. Could I have done this one year ago ? Possibly….
Update: I really like Emilys take on the dot conf
UPDATE: 15th Jan ’09
names are now officially being taken for the first garden group gig.The list below was as an expression of interest…. please go to the post below and get yer name on 😉
http://blog.doneganlandscaping.com/2010/01/15/the-garden-groups-first-adventure/
So it was sometime last year that the suggestion came in to set a garden group up…. and I did… but not a whole lot happened with it for so many varying reasons… but thats another story and this is 2010.
It’s a new year and it’s time I got things grooving in this department…..
With that in mind I am setting the date for our first gig on Saturday 30th January or the 6th February 2009. [recent email tells me to await confirmation from venue and for our guide/ host – however this will be more exact/ finite in the next day/s or so….. bear with me 😉 appreciated in advance]
I have a few places and people in mind as a first meeting…. but you reading this may have somewhere that the group could/ should visit – if so go ahead and make yourself famous.
Other than that it is a case of numbers…. If you are interested pop your name down below and watch this space for more info.
My thinking is that it is [for the moment] would entail a personalised tour of a grounds or gardens [that would be interesting!!!….] especially for us! Depending on the how the first goes and suggestions come in then maybe we can see if and how direction changes. Of course no money would be required and maybe if weather was good enough you may bring a packed lunch and we could have a picnic…. I’m waiting for confirmation at this moment in time but should have an answer back in the next few days….. again it’s a little of a numbers game as well…. slightly vague [?] but gardens made good craic is the idea….
As I said in the first post
are you interested in the greeny garden outdoors kinda thing but don’t want to fall asleep within the first 7 minutes seconds ….?
what if we became the hippest bunch of jimmedy crickets ever to cross the green line ?
A bit like the Dublin Twook Club crossed with the photobloggers, but different-ish
All of the great bits of green and horticulture – except in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt [if thats what you like to wear
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