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Thu 02 Feb 2010Time for people in glasshouses to scrub up
URBAN FARMER:Wash the glass, get rid of sick plants: get to grips with grime, writes FIONNUALA FALLON
WITH THE OPW’s plans to reinstate the Jacob-Owen designed glasshouses in the Phoenix Park’s restored walled garden on ice, gardeners Meeda Downey and Brian Quinn have had to make do. So instead of Victorian vineries and pineapple houses, they’ve got temporary use of an old glasshouse in the nearby Klondyke nurseries.
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