They are slow growing and reasonably compact so are ideal for a small garden or on a terrace and their evergreen green-grey foliage is a great lift to a garden.

The brief for this project in the Westgrove Hotel in Clane, Co Kildare was to create a garden at the hotel entrance. We met with the owners of the hotel several months ago and they asked us for ideas for  gardens and outdoor areas around the hotel and how we could enhance the appearance of the hotel.  It was clear to us that the hotel was conveniently located on a busy ring road around the Town and needed some maturity to make the road less visible and to block any road noise too. We set about designing a garden that would work as a stunning entrance but also as  Read More

How many truck loads does it take to re-stock a nursery? Four truck loads of new plants arrived onto the nursery yesterday, yes four full artic loads of trees and plants. Not that the nursery was empty but to plug some of the gaps that were starting to show and add some new and interesting plant material to our current stock.  It’s always really busy but exciting too unloading lorries, firstly all the guys not he nursery get into full throttle as they unload with a teleporter and a forklift carefully as each tree needs to be moved with care and attention so that it doesn’t  Read More