Specialising in working with clients on their gardens, providing both expertise and physical help and, if desired, the simultaneous teaching of gardening knowledge and techniques. This is a very individual service and can include:
- Advice, design and planning. Speciality: small spaces, containers, courtyards, seaside gardening.
- Stocktaking, triage and mapping of plants.
- Sensitive and plant-specific pruning.
- Sourcing plants and materials.
- Managing/overseeing larger projects and hard landscaping.
- Written proposals for committees/management companies.
- Reliable (free) back-up for regular clients with information and advice by email/phone.
- greater Dublin area only, with possible exceptions for larger projects. I am a plantswoman and professional gardener of 20 years’ experience. Born and raised on a farm in rural Bavaria – where my mother was a keen gardener – I have been based in Dublin since 1989. My main interest is in plants - their varieties, uses, requirements, habits and quirks. In years of observation and experience I have accumulated a wide and varied body of knowledge in this area, which benefits my work and my customers. My professional life has been multi-facetted: I originally studied languages, with a masters degree in literature and linguistics, and speak English, German, French, Spanish and Greek. After some years working in teaching and interpreting, in the mid-1990s I changed career to become an artist and – in a return to my rural roots – a professional gardener. A life-long diarist, I have always been interested in language and writing and is currently collaborating on two scripts for Tv and a libretto for opera. I am a founder member of the artists collective Marlborough Studios in Dublin’s north inner city and a member of Graphic Studio Dublin. I work in drawing, mixed media and printmaking, and I exhibit my work regularly.
