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Bring your garden to life with a Peppermint Farm glasshouse or conservatory

WCP Staff June, 2023

Since 1999 leading glasshouse supplier Peppermint Farm, based in West Cork, has been installing freestanding greenhouses, lean-to’s, conservatories and pavilions to customers nationwide. Originally started by Achim Hoffmann, on his retirement he passed the helm to another German living in West Cork, Hendrik Lepel, who took over the company with […]

Growing your own food

Noah Chase April, 2023

Over the last few years there has been a huge increase in people interested in growing their own food visiting us here at Deelish and, with the weather warming up, now is a perfect time to start. Not only has the number of growers increased but the average age of […]

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Spring at Future Forests

WCP Staff March, 2023

Spring has definitely sprung at Future Forests says Matt Keane For everyone in the horticultural industry the next few months are by far the busiest time of the year. For us the bare root season starts in November, but peaks in February and March, so it is all go every […]

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Deelish is growing

WCP Staff March, 2023

If you are looking for some inspiration for your own garden, Noah Chase of Deelish Garden Centre in Skibbereen invites you to stop in and say hello. Spring is on her way! Early flowering bulbs are starting to fill the beds and borders; leaves are unfurling and insects are waking […]

Cork garden designer to show ‘cavernoma’ design at Chelsea

WCP Staff March, 2023

Garden designer Anne Hamilton, who shares her time between West Cork and London is aiming for a medal – “the shinier the better” says the designer – at the Olympics for garden designers, the 2023 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Anne has partnered with Taina Suonio, to create the garden, titled […]

Fruit Hill celebrates 30 years of helping people make the move to organic

Mary O'Brien February, 2023

Already the shop of choice for Ireland’s organic producers and gardeners, more and more conventional farmers are turning to Fruit Hill farm – Ireland’s specialist for environmentally-friendly house, farm and garden supplies – to help them make the switch to organic. With over 2000 new applicants to the Organic Farming […]

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