European Heritage Day 9th September 2023– Two Gardens

Text and images courtesy of Billy McCone Although it was a stretch of our volunteer resources, the IGPS were represented at two sites opened for European Heritage Day. At Pogue’s Entry Garden in Antrim, volunteers Diane Sprules and Yvonne Penpraze enjoyed showing the garden to visitors.  At Helen’s Bay, County Down, IGPS held a plant […]

A Fond Farewell

Meeting up at Conrad McCormick’s Garden at Ballycastle was an opportunity to say a last goodbye to the past IGPS web site manager Audrey O’Kane, before leaving for Nottingham Trent University. Audrey, originally from Hong Kong, had worked in Germany and New York before moving to Downhill, Co. Derry. After recent placements in the National […]