It has been a pleasure to work with The Lyrath Hotel & Spa in Kilkenny on their outdoor space, they are in the envious position of having the most stunning parklands around the hotel so we were tasked with adding to that around the hotel and improving the fluidity of the landscaping between the old and the new of the hotel buildings. The hotel is magnificent and sits in the Kilkenny countryside beautifully, it is situated on 170 acres of mature parkland, Lyrath has a fascinating history going right back to the infamous Oliver Cromwell who evicted its owners and took control of the estate back in the seventeenth Read More
We were recently described by The Irish Independent as “The Go To People for Hotel & Spa Gardens” which I’m not going to lie delighted us and made us just a little bit smug. We have been very lucky to work with some very prestigious hotels and have been delighted to get to know some entrepreneurial owners and enhance their premises and what they have created, adding a bit of them to the designs and what we class as one of the most important things to Add Value. Creating a garden that is beautiful is all well and good and sometimes that is what you need, maybe for photographs Read More
Today I was asked about my inspiration for a garden that I have built for an article in one of the national newspapers and I had to think back about when I was at planning stage of the design although I remembered the brief and all the elements I put into the garden it was only when I went to pull up an image of the garden that I caught sight of an image that someone else had taken and posted on Instagram that a I recalled the elements and what I had seen when I was putting that together. The element in question was a walkway from Read More