Talks at Festine Lente
Sunday 7th August 2016 at 2pm to 3:30pm in Festina Lente, Old Connaught Avenue, Bray, Co Wicklow. More details on www.festinalente.ie
Here at Festina Lente Gardens we pride ourselves on keeping a very good quality lawn care program throughout our walled gardens, making sure that they look their best all the year round. Come and pick up hints and valuable tips from one of our Gardeners here at Festina Lente that will give you this information. If you ever wanted to know how and appreciate how to keep a good weed free green lush lawn this workshop is for you. The 90 minute workshop and demonstration will talk you through the various stages on how to achieve this. There will be an opportunity towards the end of the workshop for questions to be asked by participants on any queries and concerns you may have about your lawn.
Topics covered include:
? Moss & weed control
? Lawn feeding
? Grass seed mixtures
? Top Dressings
? Dealing with Drainage problems
Price per person is 20. Click here to book and pay online.
Sunday 21st August 2016 at 2pm to 3:30pm in Festina Lente, Old Connaught Avenue, Bray, Co Wicklow. More details on www.festinalente.ie
Do you have an area in your garden that looks unsightly never looks like anything is hard to keep clean and tidy especially during the summer months when the weeds seem to be growing faster than you can manage to keep under control. Wild flower meadows are an alternative to lawns and boarders and can provide you with a display for many months.
You can grow a choice of:
? Annual Meadow mix
? Perennial Meadow Mix
The workshop will cover how you can recreate a pictorial meadow. Part of this workshop will be a practical demonstration showing how to prepare and sow an area to provide you with wild flowers.
Learn about the following:
? Site Assessment to include soil type aspect etc
? Sowing times Spring / Autumn
? Ground preparation
? Sowing seed mixtures
? After Care / Maintenance of the meadow garden
? Annual verses Perennial seed Mixtures
? Advantages of growing a wild pictorial meadow
Price per person is 20. Click here to book and pay online.
