The Irish Garden Plant Society (Munster) will hold its next meeting on October 6 at the SMA Hall Wilton, starting at 8pm. 

Peter Dowdall on a piece of sylvan magic on the eastern Cork fringes.

Bandon Flower Club is holding an open work night in The Munster Arms Hotel on Monday, January 19, at 8pm. 

The GIY ‘Get Ireland Growing Fund’ in association with AIB is open for applications but the deadline is nigh — January 23 is the closing date. 

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.

* Dungarvan Flower and Garden Club Presents an evening, ‘Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer’, an illustrated lecture, with plant collector and gardener, Hester Forde at Park Hotel, Dungarvan on Wednesday, May 7 at 8pm.

¦ Grow It Yourself (GIY) Cork will explain how to construct your own raised bed and will also demonstrate seed planting and other gardening tips today on the Grand Parade, Cork, from 10am to 4pm.

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

¦ Innishannon Flower and Garden Club will host herbalist, Colette Healy on Jan 15 at 8pm in Barrett’s Lounge.

The end of 2013 was for hibernation, but the month of January and the first snowdrops, will encourage us back into the garden, writes Peter Dowdall

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