Gavin to judge student garden design contest

Landscape designer Diarmuid Gavin officially launched this year’s Kilsaran’s student design competition last weekend in search of Ireland’s next garden design star.

Now in its third year, the competition attracts entries from horticulture, garden design and landscape architecture students nationwide. The designs vary from the traditional and contemporary to the decidedly wacky, with the brief asking students to design an original, practical and easily-built garden while using Kilsaran’s hard paving and walling products ...