GLDA Seminar 2025

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Tickets are on sale now for the GLDA’s 29th Annual Design Seminar entitled:

Building Resilient Landscapes for a Changing Climate

This year the Seminar will explore the crucial role that our gardens and open spaces play in creating a sustainable and liveable future for our communities. As urbanisation intensifies, there are proposals to reduce garden sizes in newly built housing.  Our outdoor spaces have the immense potential to have a positive effect on our lives, support biodiversity and mitigate the effects of climate change.

Date:     Saturday, 22nd February 2025

Venue: Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport Hotel Conference Centre (click for map)
                Northwood Park, Santry, Dublin D09 X9X2

Time:   Registration opens 8am.  Seminar 9am-5.30pm.

 

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Henrik Sjoman Associate Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Scientific Curator at Gothenburg Botanical Garden and Honoree Research Associate at Royal Botanic Garden Kew. His work is mainly focusing on developing knowledge of site adapted plant use for urban environments including private gardens as well as public parks. How the capacity of different trees will vary in context to its environment and in delivering important ecosystem services has become the prime driver in Henrik’s work and as such how to extend the knowledge of diversifying our treescapes in parks and gardens.
Wendy Allen  an experienced multi award-winning UK garden designer, consultant and trainer who specialises in creative, biodiverse rain gardens and rain planters as part of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS). Wendy designed many rainscapes for UK Rivers Trust ‘Action for the River Kennet’ (ARK) where she led teams of ARK volunteers within communities and schools to build the projects, which all have a positive benefit for people, rivers and biodiversity. Wendy now shares inspiration, nature based solutions and techniques in talks, lectures and workshops.

Charlotte Hitchmough, has spent her career working in ‘watery’ things, beginning in the water industry, moving to the research councils and then to the Rivers Trust movement. She is Director of Action for the River Kennet and for eight years served on the board of the Rivers Trust. Throughout this time, she has developed and managed award winning projects to protect and improve rivers and their catchments. She is particularly interested in nature based solutions, and how communities and individuals can reduce their impact on every part of the water environment from water scarcity to pollution and flood risk.

Adam Whitbourn. Anyone who has visited the gardens and grounds surrounding Blarney Castle, which extend to over 70 acres, will know that it is no mean feat to be the Blarney Castle’s Head Gardener. Adam Whitbourn took up this role in 2009, and for the last 15 years, in conjunction with the estate owner Sir Charles Colthurst, he has been instrumental in transforming the gardens into one of Ireland’s finest horticultural gems.

Ann Marie Powell, Ann-Marie Powell’s multi-award-winning garden design practice has seen outdoor spaces as places with exciting possibilities for over twenty years. Based in the U.K., her studio can’t get enough of plants, bold colours and textural contrasts, creating garden habitats that invite a resilient, evolving ecology instead of the traditionally decorated garden. Sustainability is a fundamental value of our approach; she and her team strive to design naturally energetic and bold landscapes to become havens for an abundance of insects and wildlife where our clients live in harmony, up close and personal with the natural world.


Tickets (price includes buffet lunch plus tea/coffee refreshment breaks)

Venue Details (click map to enlarge)
Staying at the Hotel
The best rates tend to be available by directly with the hotel. Call the hotel (01 862 8888) to ask for GLDA seminar rate, but compare the cost by checking the hotel’s online booking system too as rates may vary.

 

Directions & Parking
There is limited paid parking available at the hotel car park with no on-street parking in the area. An alternative is to reserve parking at Dublin Airport (7km away) and take the free Crowne Plaza shuttle bus which runs every 30 mins from Zone 16 in the Coach Park at Dublin Airport. Please follow the signs for Zone 16/Coach Park from either Terminal. For further directions visit the Crowne Plaza website.

 

Public Transport
Dublin Bus Routes: 16 / 41 / 41b / 41c

BYOB … Bring Your Own Bag!
Be sure to bring your own bag (no, it doesn’t really have to be a GLDA one) with you to seminar so you can take home a selection of suppliers’ brochures which will be available on the day.

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