The Sodshow Meets Revenue.ie – A Home Renovation Incentive Scheme Special

The SodShow, Ireland's Best Podcast 2013 and only garden radio show. Live every Friday @ 3pm – or alligator in podcast.

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The Sodshow meets Mervyn Colville of Glasevin Cemetery

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Seamus Bridal and Mothers Day Demo

Seamus florist sundries are holding our bridal and mothers day demo on sunday the 9th march at 11.30am. We are delighted to have Ian LLoyd from the uk school of floristry doing it this year. You are sure to get loads of fabulous new ideas and tips for the upcoming season, as Ian is a leading wedding florist in the Manchester area and holds numerous wedding workshops in his school every year.

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HortiTrends Weekly News & Comment - Today 29 of Irelands Top Nurseries Exhibiting at IHNSA Trolley Fair - 25th Feb

Come see Irelands leading Nurseries Today in Punchestown. Got some news? Drop by the HortiTrends stand and tell us your plans for 2014 or email joseph@horticulture.ie

HortiTrends Weekly News & Comment - Dobbies WOW - Rentes Spring Fair Today - IHNSA Plant Fair Next Tuesday - 18th Feb

We have been on the road promoting the new trade journal Horticulture Connected. Yesterday was Trolley Fair Northern Ireland. Today we will be joining Rentes Plant Fair which has established itself as the go-to event to kick off the plant buying season in Ireland. Interestingly even though yeterdays NI Trolley Fair clashed with the first day of Rentes own show, it did'nt stop them from having thier own stand at that event. Its all about the marketing which should be constant and in my oppinion is most effective when you have nothing to sell. More on that next week. Also on that trip north I stopped in to Dobbies and had a good chat with Richard the horticulture manager.

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The Sodshow meets The Best of Buds Florists, Cork

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HortiTrends Weekly News & Comment - HORTICULTURE CONNECTED Out Now - GLDA Strip - 4th Feb

The magazine is now out and thank you to everyone for the feedback (mostly positive) so far. We went through many different stages including 'Labour of Love' to 'Giving it Up' and back to 'Labour of Love' again, once we got the clearance from the editor Barry Lupton and proofreader Koraley Northen, that it was good to go. We are in general happy/ecstatic with our first edition but will be adapting rapidly to the feedback that has already been given, so expect to see changes in the second edition for which we have already pre-sold advertising.

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Showrooming .... A Growing Trend - John Stanley

We are all aware of how important showrooming is becoming ion the consumers mind. At the Italian Conference recently, another speaker highlighted just how important it was becoming.

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HortiTrends Weekly News & Comment - Leading Nurseryman Calls for Action and Industry Appeal - Last Chance to Recieve Launch Edition of HORTICULTURE CONNECTED magazine -20th Jan

In Leading Nurseryman Calls for Action and Industry Appeal to Minister on draft RDP Consultation Document there is potentially more losses ahead for Irish tree growers, unless they can make their voice heard. There was great fanfare last week as it was announced that Ireland now has a €10 billion Irish food export sector. Therein lies part of the problem, as ornamental horticulture it not top of any agenda for this government, due to a lack of understanding of the true value of ornamental horticulture to the overall economy.

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HortiTrends Weekly News & Comment - 15th Jan is Adverts & News Deadline for HORTICULTURE CONNECTED New PRINT magazine - Irish food and Drink Exports Approach €10 Billion - 13th Jan

The usual time I put in to the weekly comment is all going into address research. Its been a number of years since Ireland's last trade magazine HLI was published and the marketplace has changed beyond recognition. HORTICULTURE CONNECTED magazine is busy compiling an up-to-date list of addresses for key businesses and people in the horticulture sector across the island of Ireland.

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Teagasc Vegetable Seminar 2014 Latest News

• Full House with Attendance of Over 150 for Opening Speaker Lorcan Bourke of Bord Bia.
• Lorcan Bourke Reports that Vegetables and Fruit are Number 1 & 2 in Top 10 Most Important Supermarket Catagories.
• Pesticides are Number 1 Consumer Concern When Purchasing Fruit & Vegetables According to Bord Bia Research.
• Alice McGlynn of Bord Bia Highlights the Importance Now and in the Future, of the Origin Green Horticulture Sustainability Programme.

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European Tree of the Year Contender Blows Over in Storms

It may go down in history as the tree that died for Ireland. A giant grey poplar, it had stood for 200 years in the gardens of Birr Castle, by the side of the river Camcor. Then, in the early hours of Thursday, it came crashing down, a victim of the storms.

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IHNSA Trolley Fair Latest News

• Hughes Roses Launch 'Celebration Range' of Roses Including 'Mum in a Million'
• NAD Offering a Wide Range of Specialist Horticulture Products Backed Up by Unsurpassed Technical Expertise.
• Container Centralen Makijng Your Products Move at IHNSA Trolley Fair
• Bord Bia promoting Amenity Horticulture Spring Seminar Taking Place Alongside the Amenity Horticulture Quality Awards on the 12th of March

The Sodshow Meets Paul Smyth of The Young Horts

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Art Tunnel Closing Down Party

Sadly the lease for the Art Tunnel has not been extended and we will be out of there by middle March. Come and celebrate 2 years of Art installations by emerging artists and community groups at our last opening. Last installations are by Paul Quast and Michelle Bourke- Girgis as well as an electric Community installation. See attachment Come and see and celebrate. Drinks courtesy Dice Bar:

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HortiTrends Weekly News & Comment - Garden Centre Catering & Garden Press Events - Positivity in the Air - 11th Feb

We have had a very positive response to the our new trade journal HORTICULTURE CONNECTED so far and are already working on your feedback for the April edition. Thank you to everyone who has subscribed. We are committed to improving the content by investing your subscription fees back into creating a magazine that will be both informative for everyone who is passionate about horticulture whilst also being a useful business tool. Sign up for a Paid Subscription HERE if you really suphort what we are trying to achieve. Ideas and comments to Barry Lupton - editor@horticulture.ie

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HortiTrends Weekly News & Comment - Small Business Open Day - 3000 Copies of Horticulture Connected Magazine in the Post This Week - 27th Jan

The Bord Bia Small Business Open Day 2014 'Understanding a Changing Marketplace' takes place on the 29th of January. Its aimed more so at the edible side of horticulture but is focusing on valuable business lessons for anyone in amenity horticulture also. You can find more information in BordBia - Small Business Open Day 2014.

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McCausland Opens Much Anticipated Play Park in Downpatrick

The new facility, which was financed by the Northern Ireland Executive through the Department for Social Development's Neighbourhood Renewal Investment Fund, provides a state of the art play area for the children of the Flying Horse Estate, The Model and The New Model Estates.

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The Sodshow Meets Damian Corless Part 2

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SodShow - Peters Top 5 Great Outdoor Garden Books of 2013

The SodShow, Dublin's only garden radio show. Live every Friday @ 3pm – or after tea-time in podcast.

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