GLDA - Key Persons
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- Designer Profile
- Member of the Garden & Landscape Designers Association
Alan is a full member of the Garden & Landscape Designers Association.
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- Chairman of the GLDA ( Deceased )
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- Chairman
- Designer Profile
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- Vice - Chair, Hon Secretary )
James Comiskey started his horticultural career at thirteen years old in his first summer job with Bord na Móna. He then gained invaluable experience with landscaping companies during the rest of his summer holidays as a teenager and during his time at University College Dublin.
This practical hands on experience gave him a unique grounding as a landscape architect. After graduation James took up a position with Ketch Landscape Architects. Within three months James was promoted to the role as production manager. As part of various multi-disciplinary design teams throughout Ireland, two projects of note that James was involved in were Dunboy Castle and Hotel Europe. Dunboy Castle was set to be Ireland's first six-star hotel and was the largest restoration project of its type ever undertaken in Europe.
In 2010 James founded About Your Garden, offering turnkey landscape design and construction services to the private domestic market. As his reputation grew projects became larger and more complicated resulting in the requirement of input from external contractors. James has also experienced a growing demand for specialist services from invasive species remediation to landscape design reports in support of various commercial and residential planning applications. This has resulted in a more collaborative approach in recent years with other companies to deliver exceptional outdoor spaces.
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- Designer Profile
- Founder and Designer at the Company Cityscape Gardener
Kevin is the founder and designer at the company Cityscape Gardener. He works on both residential and commercial projects and encourages his clients to enjoy the benefits of plants as he creates garden spaces for today's lifestyle. Kevin views the garden as an essential part of the home. He believes that by extending the home into the garden by continuity of style and life habits that we can enjoy gardens regardless of their size. His style is mainly contemporary but is flexible in any area of garden design. He works closely with his clients to ensure he fully understands their needs and caters for those needs by delivering choices from a wide range of materials from plants to hard landscaping.