SAP wins at Bloom 3/6/2010

Press Release June 3, 2010

Jane McCorkell & SAP Landscapes Ltd win ‘Best Large Garden’ at

Jane McCorkelland SAP Landscapes Ltd. are delighted to announce that their ‘Rain Garden’ has won a Gold Medal at Bloom, the Irish Garden Festival in Phoenix Park. The Garden was also selected by the judges as best Large Garden to win the prestigious ‘Best in Category’ .

Jane Mc Corkellgraduated with a degree in Landscape Horticulture from Writtle College, Essex, and completed a one year gardening apprenticeship at RHS Wisley, Surrey. After a number of years in industry, Jane graduated with a Masters degree in Landscape Architecture from UCD.

Today, Jane practices full time as a landscape architect and horticultural consultant for domestic, overseas, and commercial clients. Services offered by the company include consultancy, design, landscape planning application and project management.

Jane previously received recognition for her design work with gold medals at Bloom in 2007 and 2008.

SAP Landscapes Ltd is Ireland’s leading Landscape Contractor. SAP has constructed some of the signature Irish landscapes of the past 30 years, most notably St Fiachra’s Garden at the National Stud, Co. Kildare; the Citywest Business Campus; the grounds of the Four Seasons Hotel, Ballsbridge, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Enniskerry and the Kileen Castle Golf Course.

SAP Landscapes Ltd is also Ireland’s largest Grounds Maintenance Contractor and provides year-round grounds maintenance services for a wide range of Commercial, Industrial, Institutional and Private clients.

SAP has worked with Jane to develop the ‘Rain Garden’ to promote it new Environmental Contracting business unit that supplies and installs rainwater harvesting systems and small to medium domestic waste treatment plants from size PE6 to PE18. “the project isn’t complete ‘til the landscaping’s replete.” SAP Nurseries supplied all trees and hardy plant material used in the construction of ‘the Rain Garden’.

The SAP Group is one of Europe’s largest Horticultural suppliers and Landscape Contracting groups. It has operations in Ireland, the Netherlands and Poland. It exports trees and plant material to the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Benelux and Eastern Europe.

If you would like to know more about Jane or the SAP Group, please contact Aaron O’Reilly on 00353 86 857 6094.

SAP Group

Ballygoran

Maynooth

Co. Kildare

Ireland

www.sapgroup.com

From Left to Right: Alan Smyth, Senior Operations Manager, SAP Landscapes Limited; Jane Mc Corkell, Landscape Architect; Aaron O’Reilly, Business Development Manager.

The Rain Garden.