{"id":301186,"date":"2026-02-16T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301186\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:33:10","slug":"how-a-small-family-garden-business-in-wicklow-became-irelands-outdoor-living-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301186\/","title":{"rendered":"How a small family garden business in Wicklow became Ireland\u2019s outdoor living giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From a tiny garden centre in Kilquade to a 60,000\u2011square\u2011foot powerhouse in the Glen of the Downs, OutdoorLiving.ie is celebrating 20 years of transforming how Irish households use their outdoor spaces\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OutdoorLiving.ie's Pat and Damien Kelly. Photo: Leigh Anderson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/246005dc-0368-49bd-a3bd-fe09c9385173.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">OutdoorLiving.ie&#8217;s Pat and Damien Kelly. Photo: Leigh Anderson<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">From the small, family-run business that began in the hamlet of Kilquade, County Wicklow, to one of Ireland\u2019s largest destinations for everything you need to make your outdoor space as good if not better than the indoors, OutdoorLiving.ie is celebrating its milestone 20th anniversary this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Founded in 2006, the business has grown from 5,000 square feet of display space to nearly 60,000 today, and now operates from the larger Glen of the Downs garden centre site, which is the oldest continually running garden centre in Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From a tiny garden centre in Kilquade to a 60,000\u2011square\u2011foot powerhouse in the Glen of the Downs, OutdoorLiving.ie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,10687],"class_list":["post-301186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tom-galvin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}