Garden makeover for Kilgarvan House
St. John of God Carmona Services provides a range of day and residential services and supports for children and adults with an intellectual disability in South Dublin.
Our group of volunteers is restoring the garden at Kilgarvan, on the Upper Glenageary Road, one of Carmona’s long term residential houses.
Kilgarvan September 2023
The garden at Kilgarvan has continued to mature since our last post in 2021 – the photos attached have recently been taken. Our plant sales in Emer’s garden have been [...]
Kilgarvan May 2021
In the three years since our last update, Emer had a very successful plant sale in 2018 and again in 2019, as a result of which we were able to further improve Kilgarvan and [...]
Kilgarvan, August 2016
Emer had a very successful plant sale in June and as a result of this and of a further very generous donation we now have another wooden bench to match the existing one. There has [...]
Spring-Summer 2016
Before we put the garden to bed in late autumn, we had planted a lot of bulbs and corms - mostly daffodils, tulips, eranthis and anemones so when we started back after St. Patrick's Day [...]
Mid October 2015
Emer’s plant sale on 13th June was a great success and the proceeds enabled us to get working in earnest on the project. Thanks to one of our group, the hugely overgrown griselinia at the [...]
Initial Clearance, Saturday February 21st 2015
Last Saturday 21st February Brendan and a group of volunteers came to clear the garden. My family members and their friends worked their backs off all day and achieved amazing results. Brendan had already pulled [...]
New Garden Project
As many of you will know we finished up our previous garden outreach project at The Alzheimer's Society Orchard Day Care Centre garden in early summer of last year, where we helped clear, plant and [...]