Garden club events March 2017
Waterford Regional Gardening Club offers a tour to Gardens of Kent 5-day, 11 to 15 June 2017 for more details or to request a full itinerary. Please contact Anne on 087-6502067.
Macroom Flower & Garden Club: Spring Gardening Talk and Demonstration with D. J. Murphy (Bandon Garden Centre),on 9 March, at Coolcower House, Macroom, Co. Cork. Plant Sale. All welcome: 087-9821708.
Cork Alpine/Hardy Plant Society: Fionnuala Fallon, Co. Wicklow will lecture on Autumn Flowering Perennials on 23 March. Plants for sale. Lavanagh Centre, Blackrock, Cork at 8 pm. All welcome.
Balbriggan and District Horticultural Society: 23 March, Spring Garden by Christopher Heavey from the Botanic Gardens in the Scout’s Den, Market Green, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, beside Lidl, at 8.30pm.
Alpine Garden Society: 4 March, 2pm, Local Show, Members Plant Sale and workshop, in St Brigid’s Parish Centre, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, and with Irish Garden Plants Society, 16 March, 8 pm, Jimi Blake, A Plantsman’s Pick: exciting long-blooming perennials. National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9.
Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland: Spring seminar, The Wonder of Plants, 4 March, from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm, at the National Botanic Gardens, Dublin 9. Speakers: Martin Walsh, Paul Smyth, Matthew Jebb. More information at info@rhsi.ie.
Howth and Sutton Horticultural Society: in Howth Yacht Club at 8pm, 1 March, lecture by Gary Mentanko of the National Botanic Gardens, The Flora of Arctic Canada.
County Sligo Flower & Garden Club: Charity Gala Night on 13 March in Sligo Park Hotel at 8pm. Floral Demonstration by Diane Gallagher entitled Fragrance of Springtime, admission €15. All welcome.
Dublin Five Horticultural Society: on 9 March, at 8pm, Niall Hatch of Birdwatch Ireland will give
a talk on Birds of Prey at Artane Beaumont Family Recreation Centre, Kilmore Road, Artane, Dublin 5.
€5. Light refreshments and a raffle, all welcome ring 087-2423020.
Irish Garden Plant Society (Munster): Cork Nature Network will talk on Nature in the Garden,
at 8pm, on 7 March, at Northridge House (on the grounds of St Luke’s Home), Castle Rd/Ferney Rd, Mahon, Cork. Plant sale & raffle on the night. €5 for non-members, all welcome.
Templeogue Horticultural Society: Joe Tulie will talk about Spring Gardening in Our Lady’s School, Templeogue, Dublin, on 15 March, at 8pm. €7 for non-members.
Galway Flower & Garden Club presents With a Little Imagination, with Derek Armstrong, Director of NAFAS, UK, in the Westwood Hotel, Galway, on 21 March, at 8pm. Admission is €15 to include tea/coffee and door prize. All are welcome. Contact: mariancolohan@gmail.com.
Foxrock and District Garden Club: on 28 March, New trends for the garden with Vandra Costello at Foxrock Church Pastoral Centre, Dublin, at 8pm. €7 for non-members.
Ballinasloe Flower and Garden Club: 8 March, at 8pm, in Gullane’s Hotel, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, a Flower Arranging Demonstration by Maeve Duke, Rathfarnham, AOIFA.
Kenmare & District Garden Club: A Plant Explorer’s Journal in Myanmar by Billy Alexander of Kells Bay Gardens, Kerry, at 7.30pm in Gateway, Killarney Road, Kenmare on 2 March. All welcome. For directions contact Geraldine 086-3935965.
Maynooth Flower and Garden Club: Angela Jupe will give an illustrated talk on Gardens that impressed me and my favourite plants, on 21 March, at 8pm, in Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, €5.
Clontarf Garden Society: on 30 March, at 8pm, in St. Johns Parish Centre, Seafield Rd, Clontarf, Dublin, Sharon O’Sullivan gives a practical demonstration of flower arranging for Easter. €10 includes light refreshments.
