Spread a Little Happiness in Ireland - John Stanley

Last year at the Irish conference I mentioned a Facebook promotion that garden centres had developed in Australia. The Irish industry took this idea on board and this spring launched a campaign "Spread a Little Happiness".

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McCausland Officially Opens “The ‘Coole Garden”

The community garden project, branded locally as “the ‘Coole Garden’, has been developed as a result of funding of £28,141 by the Northern Ireland Executive, through the Department for Social Development’s Neighbourhood Renewal strategy. The project which contains visual and sensory elements, aims t...

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RHS Bursaries

The RHS offers a number of bursaries each year to assist horticulturists in financing specific projects, including overseas travel.  Priority is given to professional horticulturists and student gardeners, but applications are also considered from serious amateur gardeners, botanists and other r...

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Innocent and GIY Sow & Grow Schools Campaign

To all those who entered, Thank you..
A huge thank you to all the schools that got involved, we are very impressed by the amazing growing and creativity.  The Winners were chosen based on some important criteria; making growing fun, imagination and creativity, integrating growing into class work,...

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DARD Horticulture Management Notes - June 2013

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Apple scab season
As any plant pathologist will tell you, three fundamental factors must coincide  for disease to appear and spread successfully. The disease causing agent,  for example, spores of the apple scab fungus, Venturia inaequalis, must  occur at the same time as the sus...

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