The Royal Horticultural Society’s annual flagship event, the Chelsea Flower Show kicked off on Tuesday morning. Widely regarded as the top flower and garden show in the world a medal at this festival which runs this week at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea can send a career to that of a superstar in the Horticultural world.

The Show Gardens in the Phoenix Park last week were as good as Chelsea, writes Peter Dowdall.

A special doggie bus will ferry pet pooches and their owners to this year’s expanded Cork Summer Show.

The Sustainable Seafood Garden hooked the top prize at Bloom yesterday.

Some garden shows have deeper roots than others but all have grown and thrived, writes Peter Dowdall.

Kerry furniture designer Tricia Harris stretched the idea of a ‘room outside’ to an entire house at this year’s Bloom festival that opens today.

Ray Ryan anticipates big interest in small gardens when the Bloom festival puts creative horticulture in the spotlight from this Thursday

Some people feared that Bord Bia had taken on too daunting a challenge when it decided to organise a world-class garden show in Dublin.

Discussions on the future of the food industry, featuring more than 30 experts, will form a new addition to next week’s Bloom Festival in Dublin thanks to the Grow It Yourself movement.

What happens when two student comedians from Dublin are let loose with a video camera at the Bloom Festival?

Thousands of families from across the country are making their way to the Phoenix Park in Dublin for Bloom.

Gardaí are planning a major clampdown on speeding this weekend in a bid to reduce the amount of fatalities on the roads during the lethal summer period.

THE Celtic Tiger has a lot to answer for.

An award-winning garden created for Bloom 2014 has been given a permanent home in the heart of Limerick to mark the city’s status as Ireland’s first National City of Culture.

Officials from the Revenue Commissioners are to attend the annual Bloom festival in the Phoenix Park to make sure all traders are compliant with tax law.

A Cork teacher is behind a very popular garden festival, writes Colette Sheridan.

Forget about the wild life in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. This June bank holiday weekend, it’s all about the wild flowers — among other blossoms — at the annual Bloom Festival.

Bank holiday weekends generally don’t inspire the feeling that there really is “no place like home” — unless you’re headed for the Bloom festival in Phoenix Park where homage to The Wizard of Oz may take centre stage.

Irish city centre drivers had a shock to the system yesterday after their normally snail-paced congested routes were transformed for an ear-cracking 160km/h Formula One exhibition.

Results in the EU Fiscal Treaty referendum are flowing in fast this afternoon and it looks like the country has passed the 30th Amendment to the Constitution.

One of Ireland’s largest maritime festivals kicks off in Cork tonight marking the start of a bumper bank holiday weekend of water and land-based activity.

Ireland's largest gardening food and family festival has started in Dublin today, with tens of thousands of visitors expected between now and Monday.

FORTY years after they helped set up an ICA guild in Cill na Martra, Mary Scriven and Eileen O’Connell were on hand for recent events at which the anniversary was celebrated in a display of cuttings, photographs and craft exhibits.

PERSONAL loss has an unlikely link to a prestigious international design award for Cavan-based free-range egg producer Clonarn Clover.

LOOKING more in terror than in bloom, President Mary McAleese stole the show at a Dublin flower festival.

The fifth annual Bloom Festival kicks off today and runs over the next five days.

A GARDEN designed by people who are or were homeless will feature at this year’s Bloom festival in a bid to break down common stereotypes.

THE sky’s the limit, the Earth is the canvas, natural materials are the tools and the imagination is the architect.

FESTIVAL fever infected the country this bank holiday weekend with events taking place celebrating cat-themed comedy, gardening, jazz, maritime culture and traditional music.