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Interested in a career in horticulture?

Can you see yourself working as a garden landscaper/designer, garden maintenance, floristry, in a garden centre or nursery, or running your own gardening business?

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Though plants should form the backbone of our gardens, including features and decorative objects can add the finishing touches and give an insight to the personality of the gardener.

Top gardeners to beat a path to Carlow

Carlow’s Floral Festival Trail promises enthusiasts lots of floral fun and facts from Saturday August 2nd – Sunday August 10th. The festival features workshops, information lectures and demonstrations by some of the top names in Irish gardening circles in addition to arts and crafts demonstrations, musical performances and street entertainment. Dermot O’ Neill, Eanna Ní Lamhna and Helen Dillon, are joined by river specialist and environmentalist Dick Warner and historic gardens consultant, Finola Reid.

Weeds, Worms and Wellies

Children and gardens can be quite a vexed issue, both from the gardener’s perspective and from the child’s. On the one hand, footballs crashing through the borders, bald or muddy patches on the lawn, trees damaged by climbing or swinging from the branches, shortcuts taken through hedges, fruit canes denuded before any of the fruit can get to the kitchen can all make you tear your hair out. On the other, enforced lawn mowing and weeding when you’d rather be doing something far more interesting can engender boredom and resentment. Most important, of course, is the issue of safety in the garden, particularly with smaller children in mind, and especially if you have a pond or grow potentially poisonous plants. (I’ll look specifically at safety in the garden in a later column.)

home ground

It has been a strange gardening year so far. In my garden at least, plants are beginning to flower that have already flowered earlier this year while some spring shrubs are only coming into flower now. I’m not complaining, though, as flowers at any time are welcome. Another thing that is very noticeable this year is the beautiful scents in my garden. Such a variety of perfumes from lilies, buddleias, etc. They really brighten my days.

gardening with Anne McKeon

The winter garden can be a very peaceful garden offering a break from the routine gardening chores of summer lawn mowing, hedge cutting, weeding, etc.

gardening with Anne McKeon

As the growing season slows down and prepares to rest for the winter months ahead, gardening takes a change of direction. Foliage is beginning to change coats, putting on its rust and red shades of autumn; annual bedding plants are dying off while perennials on the other hand are storing up food supplies for the dormant season ahead. All things considered autumn enters and leaves in a blaze of colour.

River Oaks

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This property is incomparable with any other property for sale in its location and with an asking price of just €289,000 also makes for a bargain buy in today’s market. Well positioned in the River Oaks estate it has tarmac driveway with manicured lawns to the front and superb rear garden complete with paved patio area, paved walkways, rockeries, and charming summer house.

Flower Power the Big Value Garden Centre and Florist

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Flower Power The Big Value Garden Centre and Florist formerly of the Car Boot Sale Yard, Castleinch, Kilkenny and now located just off the Carlow/Dublin Road roundabout has top quality gardening products on sale at unbelievable prices.

gardening with Anne McKeon

I know that many of you dread this time of year, raking lawns and rockeries, clearing pipes, and sweeping driveways, all in an effort to remove the falling leaves that have lodged there. Falling leaves are, as you know, all part of life’s cycle though. Plants, as with people, slow down at this time of year and shed excess baggage. This is all in preparation for winter, when it is the time to rest. Sound familiar?

 

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