Rosie Maye will host a small group of IGPS members for a Workshop on propagating your stocks of Irish Heritage and other plants. We can look forward to seeing her show us some basic methods[…]
Lesley Simpson and Moira Concannon are friends and neighbours who garden together in adjacent properties, a late Georgian house and a converted barn. Come and enjoy the wonderful display of daffodils and other bulbs in[…]
Mark Gregory is the Managing Director of Landform Consultants Ltd based in Surry, a landscaping company comprising landscape architects, garden designers, and a highly skilled landscape workforce. Mark has build 107 gardens at the RHS[…]
Seamus O’Brien, Head Gardener of the National Botanic Gardens, Kilmacurragh, recounts the adventures of a trip he led in July 2022 to the mountains of Ladakh, where he and his group studied a high altitude[…]
Catherine has worked in horticulture all her life and has enjoyed all manner of horticultural roles, from crop production to retail sales, nursery and garden work. For the past 22 years she has worked at[…]
The story of great Irish gardens is often one of highs and lows, the flourishing of a vision coupled with the money to make it happen sometimes followed by decay or almost total erasure. Find[…]
June’s presentation will show how creating that magic moment is what gardening is all about. Sometimes a fleeting moment in spring when all the tulips are at their very best with perfect light creates that[…]
Caher Bridge Garden in the Burren was begun in 1999. It started as Carl Wright’s little project to tidy up the front of the house with little gardening knowledge and no interest in garden design.[…]
Paul Maher and Edel McDonald both worked at the National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin until their retirement in 2019: Paul as Curator of the Gardens; Edel as Propagation Foreman. Both are long standing members of[…]
In 1915 the Irish Times called Charles Frederick Ball ‘one of the best known botanists and horticulturists in Ireland’. He had been Assistant Keeper of the Royal (now National) Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, editor of the[…]
As our first ‘in person’ talk in over two years, IGPS Leinster is delighted to have Stephen Butler discuss his experience as the former Curator of Horticulture at Dublin Zoo as well as his new[…]
Description The gardens belonging to Cherry Townsend extend to five acres and have evolved over the past twenty years. They include a cottage garden, orchard, vegetable and herb garden and a recently planted prairie border.[…]
Barmeath is a flamboyant castle set in over 10 acres of historic gardens overlooking Dundalk Bay. Home to the Bellew family since the 1670s, the main design of the garden is by Thomas Wright of[…]
Grey Abbey House is considered to be one of the finest Georgian country houses in Ireland and has remained in the possession of the Montgomery family since 1607. The central portion of the house was[…]
IGPS Northern Group’s 2022 plant sale will be held at Clotworthy House, Antrim Castle Gardens, Antrim on Saturday, 21st May 2022 between 11am and 4pm. Due to Covid-related uncertainties, it was decided that we link[…]
A warm welcome awaits you in the Library of the Castlecourt Hotel on Friday evening following check-in. Enjoy the opportunity to catch up with each other after our long absence. Saturday begins with a 9 am departure[…]
Come before 11 where you can enjoy tea and scones before exploring the garden at Coolaught. This 2.5 acre garden was planted and developed by the Deacon family for generations. Paths lead to the front[…]
Coolcarrigan is a 15 acre garden outside Naas, Co Kildare. Following storm damage in the 70s, a major restoration took place with the assistance of the eminent plantsman, Sir Harold Hillier. Coolcarrigan holds a collection[…]
Logan Botanic Garden, situated on the Mull of Galloway just 20 miles across the Irish Sea from Co Down, is one of four gardens comprising the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. It was voted ‘Best Garden[…]
This is a Zoom talk and the link will be sent to members as the date (1st March) approaches. Neil is an historic garden consultant and plantsman who has worked in and on several of[…]