Growing by design

Straight into a new year and it’s just as we left off in 2014 with Irish horticulture getting stronger and stronger.

In 1996 the Garden and Landscape Designers Association (GLDA) was founded by talented horticulturists, landscapers and garden designers who wanted to give the industry a united voice in Ireland. Garden design was very traditional at the time, but in the intervening years it has developed and grown with the calibre of our designers — we are now holding our own on an international level.

Less rigid adherence to the rules, mixing roses with herbaceous, trees with conifers and even vegetables among the perennials, as opposed to keeping strict areas for particular groups of plants, has led to more relaxed and interesting gardens.