I started my horticultural career as a teenager with my first summer job involving the production of peat blocks with Bord na Mona for the tulip industry in Holland. Realising that I would like to get involved more in horticulture I spent the remainder of my summers as a teenager working for Abbeylara Landscapes in Longford.

As  art  was  my  strongest  subject  in  school I decided to combine my love of art  and horticulture  by  applying g for  Landscape  Horticulture  at  University  College   Dublin. During my summer breaks from university I worked for Clontarf Landscapes, the Parks Department of South Dublin County Council, Dowling Landscape Services and spent a year with Summerhill Landscapes in New York.

On completion of my studies I took up a position as a Landscape Architect in Cork where I worked on a variety of projects from the very small to the very large.

I put forward an entry in the small garden section of Bloom in 2009. For those of you who don't know, this is the largest garden show in Ireland and takes place each year in the Phoenix Park. It has been billed as the Irish equivalent of the Chelsea Flower Show. This garden was called About Your Garden and gave birth to this new business

After Bloom I was asked to build a garden for the Mallow Garden Festival, probably the oldest garden show in the country.This garden show is unique as the gardens are left in place to allow the public to see how the gardens mature and change. I took the pergola from Bloom and transported it from the Phoenix Park to Mallow Race Course, along with some of the cobbles I used as paving and the gates. This resulted in a small garden that won a gold!

Three years on I have become the first and only person in Ireland to exhibit at both Bloom and The Mallow Garden Festival in three consequtive years. I have another bronze medal from Bloom and a gold medal and silver medal from The Mallow Garden Festival under my belt.