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Barry Lupton talks to Fintan Brennan about the establishment and maintenance of the greens at Portmarnock Hotel and Golf Links.
It never fails to amuse the horticultural community how office-bound employees continually tell us how lucky we are to work outdoors. Typically we’re informed of our good fortune on those rare splitting-the-stones days of mid-summer. Strangely, no matter how hard we search; we can never locate any of these envious pen pushers on a cold January morning when the rain is failing horizontally and you’re battling with 4 pounds of mud on each foot!
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Barry Lupton meets the Head Gardener of Lissadell House
Even the most infrequent visitor to the north west will be familiar with Lissadell House. Commissioned by Robert Gore Booth in 1833, Lissadell was conceived by English architect Francis Goodwin and constructed with locally cut limestone in the neo-classical Greek Revival style. An important architectural statement of its time, it went on to become a hub for local activity, employing over 200 people in its heyday, and was a significant inspiration and rest stop for William Butler Yeats.
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Barry Lupton reviews developments at Hunting Brook Gardens
The roots of horticultural education can be traced back to the middle of the eighteenth century when a rise in the popularity of the cultivation of plants for predominantly aesthetic purposes stimulated a demand for educated horticulturalists. At that time the Royal Dublin Society were offering premiums to men willing to set up plant nurseries and in 1789 they began offering fees of £10 to any nurseryman willing to take on an apprentice whose training would include the grafting, planting and rearing of trees. Six years later the RDS purchased a parcel of land in Glasnevin and established an institution that would become the home of Irish Horticultural education.
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