¦ 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.

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