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Stone seating area Greystones

Here is a stone seating area I just finished for a garden in Greystones just outside Dublin City. The seating area was to go into a matur...

Roses are RED. The use of red in the landscape.

As it is Valentines Day today I thought it would be a good time to talk a little bit about one of my favourite colours to use in the land...

Landscape Designer Mary Reynolds

So this post is a first for Stone Art’s Blog: throughout the past two years or so that I have been writing this blog I have highlighted m...

Stargazing in the garden

I have always been fascinated by the night sky, and can happily sit in the garden staring into the vastness of space till the crick in my...

Garden Designers Roundtable: Stone

I have kindly been invited to participate as a guest writer at the Garden Designers Roundtable to discuss the topic of stone. Being both ...

Irish hills on fire with Molinia caerulea ‘Purple Moor-grass’

Driving down to the home place in West Cork is always a treat, especially if I haven’t been home in a while. Living in the city of Dublin...

Snowdrops, Labyrinths and their effects on Alzheimer’s

The other day I was talking about snowdrops and their link to the treatment of Alzheimer’s. The little snowdrop has been linked to an imp...

Theater in the garden

Garden Theatres Although there are many grand Garden Theatres and huge impressive amphitheatres out there in the world, they are not some...

Stone River, by Landscape Architect and Stonemason Jon Piasecki

Stone River is a project by award wining landscape architect and stonemason, Jon Piasecki. Jon Piasecki is a graduate of Harvard Universi...

Everglades Gardens at Leura

A few months ago, I was asked fellow garden blogger Britt Conley from the Photo Garden Bee to partake in a photo meme. For the post I cho...

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