There’s certain trigger words that elicit ooohs and aaahs in flower circles. Peony. Sweetpea. Chelsea. Bloom in the Phoenix Park is Ireland’s version of Chelsea, and Bord Bia have done a good job developing this into a major event pulling in well over 100,000 visitors every year. But Chelsea still carries more cachet, and this
Charity Begins At Home We are delighted to be supporting Julianstown Youth Orchestra performing at the City North Hotel, with a donation of two of our beautiful bouquets to present to their conductors on the night. Every month we make a contribution to a local not-for-profit organization. Last month we were delighted to supply bouquets
Peony Season In May we’ll be flat out harvesting peony roses from our 16,000 plant orchard. The first variety is always the cerise Flame. We have experimented by planting peony in one of our tunnels for the first time to see if we can get earlier production at the start of the season, but Darragh
Why don’t more Irish farmers host open days? This was the question I was asking myself after throwing our own gates open to the public last spring. Admittedly, I was anxious about how things would work until the day itself. The public’s expectations can be daunting, especially in an era when farmers are questioned on
When I was in my teens I was mad about showing cattle. We had pedigree Holsteins and the herd had a registered prefix called after the farm itself, Elmgrove. When I started dabbling in buying a few fancy calves and embryos of my own I dreamed of setting up my own world renowned prefix. I
It took a while for the penny to drop over the last couple of months. As soon as I started construction on my farm shop, people were asking if we’d be serving coffee. I would nod enthusiastically and mutter something inane about us heading that direction. But all the while knowing that I was really
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