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

September 26th, 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

June 8th, 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 [...]

May 2018

June 1st, 2018|

Having put the garden to bed in November 2016, we started back in mid March to a riot of colour mainly from daffodils and blue and white anemones.  In autumn, using the money we made [...]

Kilgarvan, August 2016

August 20th, 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

June 14th, 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

October 16th, 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 [...]

New Garden Project

January 1st, 2015|

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 [...]