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Our Customer Service staff at O'Donal's will provide advice on plant use, selection, spacing, and planting while you are here at the Nursery. If you need a more definate plan, we can accomplish that for you also, for further information on this services call us at 839-4262 (ext.28 for voicemail). » download our brochure |
Irene joins O'Donal's Nursery, LLC with a 13-year horticulture-career background. Originating from Newcastle, Maine, she began working in the industry as a young teenager as a gardener and at the local retail garden-center, formerly known as Holly Hill, now Cottage Gardens. During that time she really acquired the favored taste for horticulture.
While studying at the University of San Francisco majoring in Communication Studies: Public Relations and Human Behavior, Irene continued to return to Maine, working at Cottage Gardens and then as a Park Ranger at Acadia National Park. Irene permanently returned to Maine from California, resided in Portland. Her desire to work with plants was unavoidable; therefore she promptly resumed working as a greenhouse grower at a local nursery. While finding her niche in the horticulture industry she pursued a degree through the acclaimed horticulture program at Southern Maine Community College. Irene has become proficient through much of the industry working as a, garden laborer, greenhouse grower, garden-center retail representative, and landscape manager and designer and attending horticulture workshops, conferences and trade shows. Landscape designing and encouraging the practice of horticulture as therapy are aspects of the industry that Irene focuses on.
Between the love of working with people and gaining an expertise in horticulture, she has found her place at O'Donal's Nursery. It is a place where introducing the wonders of a great variety of plants and expanding one's knowledge about gardening comes alive.
Thrilled to be a member of O'Donal's Nursery, LLC staff as Landscape Designer and a retail associate, Irene looks forward to any task one presents to her, be it a design for a small intimate setting in an urban location or a broad landscape with topographic and soil challenges to consider. Irene is confident with her knowledge while eager to learn more as mother-nature and the world of horticulture are always evolving.
call Irene at 839-4262 (ext.28 for voicemail).
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