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Landscape Expectations
As most of Ireland’s most successful meadows are sown and managed by landscape professionals, we offer special terms and support agreements for our regular landscaping customers and we teach new market entrants how to grow our products.
We once considered a customer as regular, if they returned to buy every second year, these days regular customer return a few times every sowing season, such is the demand. On average 20-30% of our regular sales turnover arises from the Landscape Contractor Sector. But as landscapers work on infrastructural projects that turnover is not reflected in our regular trade.
Our Meadow Mixture range was designed for landscape sector in the 1990’s and is still popular today, inexpensive when compared to UK similar, reliable and with 3 year guarantee and support.
Landscapers also deliver our bespoke solutions, often ordered for difficult conditions, such as sowing wet raw subsoil or very steep banks. Landscape designers and their contractors when delivering a project, are up against very high expectations from clients or customers. Our team offers thoughtful explanation, we often have to ‘plant’ every ones ‘expectations’ firmly in the ground. And no, we don’t mind talking to your clients directly if asked or taking the ‘blame hit’ when something goes wrong.
Far too often we get asked to talk to this or that client who wants a full single colour meadow, all red or blue. We explain that the small range of red or blue flowers in the native collection need completely different conditions to each other, at very best one or two flowers of the same colour flower in the same season and as our meadows are long season flowering, so why would we supply something that does not work, (it does, if money grows on trees) !. We also get asked for seed mixtures to be flowering for a wedding day, often two weeks before the wedding or in a recent cases, swon in autumn to flower the following September! But what if, it rains and they all shut up their flowers! there’s no end to our problem avoidance, sorry problem solving.
Another well worn question is can wildflower be sown into grass?, Yes and No, depends, see the Wildflower Growers Manual or FAQ’s for the answer.
If you are new to wildflowers we recommend trying ‘Picker’. our ‘appy’ thingy that silently, (promise ‘no weird voices’ or pop ups) guides your journey to selecting the best for site and conditions.
Our Service : When on the job, there’s a hold up, dispute or change of design that changes other factors in relation to wildflowers and nature, DBN are famous for arriving like a bunch of fresh flowers to cheer up any situation to directly explain what’s required and what will result, cos we give hope in some of the hopeless situations created by those who think wildflower seed is the same as grass seed, that it can be simply chucked on to any old weed soil. Sure, by now due to our years of training, explaining, assisting to insuring against failure, we have made wildflowers a mainstream Amenity Landscape option, and in long term better, cheaper and far more bio-diverse than lawn. we are skilled at explaining the whats, wheres and whys, to inform purchase managers, accountants, engineers, contractors and delivery drivers and of coarse to the public. Even with Infrastructure projects our involvement has been a game changer. Case study, Read More…
Landscaping with Brambles! Every landscaper knows the tenacity of a blackberry bush, thorny. long reaching, fast growing, but ever reliable and not going away, that’s us the ‘brambles’ pushing out, in new and personal ways, one customer at a time, we are brambles flowering in front of the new ecology that’s forming behind all the ground work we have done in the past 40 years.
As Sandro faces into retirement, he’s leaving behind a skilled team, he has even set up the competition to ensure the industry stays going. His parting remarks, when ever we can get rid of him will no doubt be that the industry was going know where until the landscapes took the wildflower grower baton from the first cohort to grow our products, Ireland’s private gardeners, who only have so much space.
Once professionals, mainly landscape contractors became familiar with the entire process of the product, they were the best at sowing it. OPW and Country Council Parks department staff also succeeded around the same time in the early years of the 21st century. Professionals raised the ‘cutting! bar’ on what could be achieved, for they had the skills, machinery and large areas of meadow to sow.
So great is the interest in our product because it grows, we have offered our EduCat service to train well know firms such as Sap Landscapes, Peter O’Briens, Hawthorn, Radharc, Mizen and many more landscape firms, who are regular customers. From Ardcairn landscapes where we teamed up to grow a ecological solution for toxic ash waste all the way across the spectrum of opportunity for wildflowers in our markets down to the totally personal experience that the great landscaper Andrew Craig brought to his very personal garden designs where our flora was incidental, not dominant, his words not mine.
So please enjoy our this new section on our web its written for a wide audience across the landscape sector.
Did You Know About ScaryCrow? The resident crow living in this website was once a very Scary-crow working with a landscaper growing wildflower gardens in South Dublin in the late 1970’s, many installations were also organic, mulched over newspaper and cardboard and some also produced food in simple introductory edible landscaping formats. ScaryCrow says, DBN was always a leader, so far ahead in those early days at the beginning of the Age of Nature when this business was previously called Organic Earthworm.  ScaryCrow stood out in the field, there to delivere Ireland’s first permaculture workshops and large scale permaculture design in Catherdanial, Permaculture is a design tool to organise placement of elements and there interaction in the landscape. ScaryCrow squawked as DBN designed our business on permaculture ideas and grow our farm crops as close to natural principles as economic factors allow.
We even hold opendays for you to visit a meadow and see our crops
Experience you can trust
In bygone days, we delivered Europe’s first ever Outdoor industrial safety plan for Wavin Ire, designing for large industrial storage yards and landscape, road access and water run off. It all adds up to our experience, experience you can trust , because we no longer compete for landscape contracts for your business and only send our team out when asked by contractors or for special ecological or environmental reasons, usually when the contractor is pressed for time or resources.
Squawk, these days we recommend gardeners and landscapers to customers so we have included a Map, for you to add your wildflower projects.
Look out for ScaryCrow throughout his web, his dark presence will lighten up your journey.
