Last night saw the long awaited finalists list for the Blog Awards Ireland 2013 released. We are delighted to have made it as a finalist in the Great Outdoors category which is sponsored by Agriland. I wanted an image which summed up the great outdoors rather than just the finalists logo, and for me at […]
Nominated in 3 categories and surprisingly shortlisted in all 3 categories. Well the plan of Secret Garden celebration Vino is still a possibility, although the wasps have decimated the grapes here, so I may have to buy a bottle and make a Secret Garden label. In the meantime I took a picture of three rather […]
Well on the same evening as my Lime Canvas news I came home from a hard weeks work. The latter part of the week is my social work time so I always like to catch up on the garden centre news. A letter was awaiting for me and I expected it to be full of […]
At present this is the only image I have to show for our surprise win of ‘The Greenest Garden Centre’ at the Garden Retail Awards 2012 which took place on Wednesday night at London’s Grosvenor House in Park Lane. We were unable to attend and look what happens when you don’t attend, you go and […]
Saturday night delight!!!!! Firstly and obviously due to the large image to the left, we have made it as finalists in the SME category of the Blog Awards. Not bad going since there was over 60 blogs nominated in this category and as my previous post stated I did not expect to make the shortlist. […]
September has seen us nominated in the Web Awards 2012 in the Most Beautiful Website in Ireland category. We were also nominated in this category in 2011 but we did not make it as shortlisted finalists, maybe this year. We do have a rather lovely website if I say so myself courtesy of Charlotte of […]
It seems that someone who reads my blog (The Strive for a Greener Garden Centre) felt we were worthy of a nomination for this years Blog Awards in the Best Eco/Green category. So sat here with a cuppa I have a inner glow but in reality I know I use the blog less than I […]
It thats time of the year when polystyrene is manufactured into the of shape social media brand logos and possibly air guitars although I expect there may be new designs at this years Bord Gais Energy Social Media Awards. Having made it to the finals last year for the category of Facebook Page for a […]
Double delight this week as we have been shortlisted for the National Entrepreneurial Business Awards as well as The Green Awards 2012. We are delighted particularly as this will be our 10th year and is a reflection of the hard work of the whole team who have made The Secret Garden what it is today. […]
(27th September 2011) First we would like to say……. for the person, people or company who nominated us in the Irish Web Awards 2011 in the most beautiful website category which is a real reflection of the work that Charlotte of Charlotte’s Web Design created for us earlier this year. We have also been nominated […]
We did it, and we did it courtesy of the comments and interactions from our likes so a big thank you. Roll on the awards on the 26th…..
