Open gardens in aid of Marymount Hospice this week includes Maurice and Gertie O’Donoghue’s garden at Carrignavar on today and tomorrow, June 28 from 2pm to 6pm and the Fitzgerald garden, The Rectory, Templebreedy, Crosshaven on July 5 from 2pm to 6pm.

A talk by Mary Angela Keane, historical geographer, on ‘Springtime in the Burren’ takes place on April 9 at Ashton School at 8pm.

Kanturk Flower and Garden Club will meet on March 11 in the Temperance Hall Kanturk at 8.00pm. 

Cork Garden Club will present a talk by Angela Jupe of Bellfield House and Gardens on the topic: ‘Design Ideas for the Garden & Plants for Structure’ on February 12 at Ashton School at 8 pm.

Coachford Flower and Garden Club presents an evening of Christmas flower arranging with Denis O’Donovan in Breathnach’s Courtyard Café on Wednesday, December 10. Visitors are very welcome.

The Glucksman Craft and Design Fair is on today and tomorrow and is well work a visit as it will showcase high quality, Irish craft and design in the award-winning building at UCC, Cork. 

Grow it Yourself (GIY) meets at O’Donovan’s Hotel in Clonakilty on Monday, Oct 13 at 8pm. 

Blackrock Flower and Garden Club will host DJ Murphy on Tuesday, October 7 for a talk and demonstration at the Ursuline Secondary school at 7.30pm. All welcome.

* ACE at UCC and the Irish Heritage Trust will offer a summer short course at Fota House: ’A History of Gardens’ with Dr Nigel Everett which will run for 6 weeks, starting on June 10.

* John and Helen Fox will host a garden party at ‘Glencairn,’ Underwood, Rochestown, today from 11am to 5pm and local band, Ré Nua, will provide music from 3-5pm.

* Kanturk Flower and Garden Club will meet on Wednesday May 14 at 8.00pm with guest speaker Rachel Budd, Organic Horticulturalist. Everyone welcome, €5 with refreshments served.

* East Cork Flower Club are holding a demonstration with Angela Heffron, AOIFA on Monday, April 7, at 8pm in St. John the Baptist National School, Midleton.

¦ Macroom Flower & Garden Club Spring Floral Demonstration & Gardening Talk on Hellebores & Spring Bulbs Thursday, March 13 at 8.00pm, Coolcower House.

¦ Cork Garden Club presents a talk by Ciarán Burke, of The Garden School, on: ‘The Spring Garden — Colour and Design’, at Ashton School, Cork, on February 13, at 8pm.

¦ Coachford flower and garden club are hosting a Christmas demonstration: ‘Have yourself a very Merry Christmas’, with Margaret Ahern, in the Village Inn Coachford, on Dec 4, at 8pm.

¦ Kanturk Flower and Garden Club will meet on Wednesday, Nov 13, with guest speaker Madeline McKeever, of Brown Envelope Seeds. All welcome, €5.00.

The versatile rosehip can be put to a host of culinary and medicinal uses, says Kitty Scully.

The weed invasion, the dread of every gardener, is an offensive that must be stopped.