The Moores of Glasnevin: the Irish Rhododendron Story
Thursday 30th October at 7.30pm – 9.00pm
Seamus O’Brien – Online (Zoom) Lecture
Seamus manages the National Botanic Gardens, Kilmacurragh. He is a member of the RHS Woody Plant Expert Group and is Chairman of the Irish Branch of the RHS Rhododendron, Camellia and Magnolia Group. Seamus is a long-standing member of the IGPS.
Dr David Moore and his son, Sir Frederick Moore, were the greatest Directors of the Royal (now National) Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin in Dublin; between them they managed the garden from 1838 to 1922, by which time the only botanic garden that could match it for botanical and horticultural excellence were its sister gardens at Kew and Edinburgh.
From its earliest years Glasnevin was involved in the introduction of Rhododendron species to British, Irish and European gardens, introducing Rhododendron arboreum subsp. zeylanicum to cultivation in 1836 and continuing the process further through the collections of the great plant hunters like E. H. Wilson, Joseph Rock, George Forrest, Captain Frank Kingdon Ward, and those of Lady Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe.
A zoom link will be emailed to all IGPS members prior to the event.
