The GLDA would like to congratulate the winners of this years GLDA Student Award Competition: Overall Winner: Clementine De Cherisey. Prize: iPad, a Trophy, entry to the 2024 Seminar for free and one year free GLDA Student membership to the GLDA Second Prize: Conni...

A new one-hectare park in Dublin's city centre, is a unique spatial composition, which uses construction and demolition waste to create Ireland's first such permanent public space. in Compass magazine, issue '76 (Summer 2022).

This is an ideas competition to explore how landscape architecture and garden designcan provide community space for growing, learning, and socialising. The site for thiscompetition is located within the walled garden in Cabinteely Park, Co. Dublin. The competition is...

UPDATE Our new Instagram Page is at @GLDA_Ireland Please visit us there and follow us. ------ Unfortunately we have to inform you that today the GLDA Instagram account was hacked. At first the hackers made an attempt to de-face the profile, but in the end our profile...

Get your garden design queries answered by the GLDA at Bloom, 2nd-6th June 2022.

Purchase a ticket to watch back all of the GLDA Seminar 2022 here.

If you missed this year’s GLDA seminar, “Designing in Challenging Times, A Shift in Perspective” which took place online on 27 February 2021, it's not too late. All the presentations and Q&A sessions are available to watch (or watch again!) for the next year....

It is with great sadness that the GLDA announces the death of Colm Doyle, MGLDA. Colm first joined the GLDA in 2007, and was accepted as a Full member in 2009.  He was an active member of the GLDA Council from 2010-2012, assisting with the promotion of the design...

Calling all garden and landscape designer students and recent graduates. The Garden & Landscape Designers Association (GLDA) Student & Graduate Design Competition 2022 is now open for entries. Sponsored by The Kildare Gallery and Millbrook Paving, with support...

It is with great sadness that the GLDA learnt of the sudden death of Angela Jupe, FFGLDA.  Angela was the instigator of the Association over twenty five years ago and our first Chairperson when launching the GLDA in 1997.  Without her vision and drive we would not be...

Friend of the GLDA, Agata Byrne, has shared an initiative the Gerard Byrne Studio is involved in with Crann,Trees for Ireland. Their latest project, Easy Treesie, aims to plant one million trees with Ireland’s one million children by 2023.   To help them...

The GLDA is delighted to showcase it’s totally revamped and updated website to the world! It’s been over a year in the planning, designing and building and at last we’ve been able to unveil it to coincide with St Patrick’s Day 2021 - traditionally the day when the...

The last year has certainly been a time for challenges and that prompted the theme for this year’s GLDA seminar, “Designing in Challenging Times, A Shift in Perspective”. The event took place online (for the first time) on 27 February and also marked the launch of a...

Bord Bia has announced that Bord Bia Bloom, Ireland’s largest gardening and lifestyle festival, will not take place in the Phoenix Park from June 3rd to June 7th this year. Due to the ongoing threat to public safety from Covid-19 the festival will take place virtually...