“Overall this is a comprehensive landscape plan covering many different areas of biodiversity & nature conservation and protection in the garden setting. It offers enormous potential for educating the educators and passing on the knowledge of these biodiversity-friendly practices to be potentially followed in 166 schools throughout the region… ” Dr Fiona Mac Gowan, BSc, PhD Consultant Ecologist & Botanist
Gardening for Food, Health or Pollination?
Are you working in a community or organisation that is looking for some garden design pointers? Dee Sewell, qualified Landscape Designer, has worked with several clients providing ethical garden design for communities of people and pollinators, or providing herb garden planting designs for health and wellbeing.
These include:
- Carlow Town Development Forum
- County Carlow Development Partnership
- Kilkenny Leader Partnership
- Healthy Tipperary
- The Wellwood Centre, County Carlow
Pilot plot for Carlow’s urban biodiversity strategy is looking great thanks to @Greensideupveg ‘s great design & patient supervision of Carlow Town Dev Forum volunteers 🤗 Hopefully the first of many! @Carlow_Co_Co pic.twitter.com/omkgIg9TQt
— Emma Geoghegan (@EmGeoghegan) April 27, 2019
Garden & Planting Design
Helping several groups to design and build their own gardens, Dee has provided landscape, planting and concept plans to organisations that include:
- Carrick-on-Suir Library Community Fruit Garden
- Barrack Street Carlow Biodiversity Garden
- Goresbridge Community Garden, Kilkenny
- Carlow Older Persons Forum, Carlow town
- Leighlinbridge Community Garden
- Gleann na Bearu Community Garden
- St Francis Farm Detox Garden
- Rathvilly Community Garden
- Hacketstown Biodiversity Garden
