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MyPlant · 1M ago

Todays Babylon

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon also known as Hanging Gardens of Semiramis and the walls of Babylon (near present-day Al Hillah in Iraq) are considered one of the original Seven Wonders of the World. They were built by Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC. He is reported to have constructed the gardens to
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MyPlant · 2M ago

Old Irish Primroses go international

Kennedy Irish Primroses Old Irish Primroses abroad.What a month of activity for a new Irish Plant introduction! Primula Drumcliff and Innisfree are now widely available in USA, Europe and Japan. These are the first two varieties of the Kennedy Irish Primrose range. Following last years St. Patrick’s
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MyPlant · 8M ago

Is Gardening again becoming a necessary life skill?

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MyPlant · 8M ago

Plantarium 2011 and stuff

Things have been hectic over the summer months, difficult to dicipline time aside to write any blog posts. We have just completed another Plantarium show in Netherlands. Plantarium seemed a quieter show this year yet quality and quantity of serious enquires were up on last year. This years show aga
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MyPlant · 1Y ago

Is Gardening again becoming a necessary life skill?

The co-incidence.In this blog post I am re-posting a piece I first posted on http://www.myplant.ie/ back in May 2009. A few weeks after I first posted this the article was hacked and my website brought down by a virus planted on the site by hackers. My site hosting and maintenance guys said the atta
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MyPlant · 1Y ago

The gifting of a Kennedy Irish Primrose

It isnt often one of our plants gets such a wonderful first outing that they are given as a gift from our country to the first Lady of the United States of America. So I felt I must share this news with everyone.I am honoured to announce that on 17th of March, St Patricks Day, a special basket of o
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MyPlant · 1Y ago

FitzGerald Nurseries wins Innovation Award

Irish Times InterTradeIreland All-island Innovation Awards. Leaders in their field, FitzGerald Nurseries Ltd have been nominated for their system, which have been designed to develop plants, marketing, micro-propagation production systems and routes to international markets for their plant ranges de
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MyPlant · 1Y ago

National Innovation Award shortlisting

FitzGerald Nurseries Ltd has been shortlisted for a National Innovation Award from a nationwide and Island wide group of small, medium and large multi-national companies.This is great honour for us. Especially as small family farm based rural business to be included with mainstream high tech multi-n
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MyPlant · 1Y ago

Kennedy Irish Primrose Collection

Announcing the Kennedy Irish Primrose collection.A unique collection of Primroses bred over 35 years from old Irish varieties.I am pleased to reveal the hard work and dedication one of Ireland’s leading amateur primrose breeders, Joe Kennedy, has been acknowledged with the help of FitzGerald Nurseri
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MyPlant · 1Y ago

Update on Sweet potato growing Trial in Ireland.

UpdateNovemeber 2010.We harvested the Sweet Potato in late October and yield per plant averaged 1.5 kg but on the good rows we got up to 2 Kg on some plants. As we planted on the flat we reduced yield per plant so next seasons plants will definitely go into drills. this season we were not able to
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