30,000 visitors for garden festival

ONE of the country’s biggest garden exhibitions will be held at Cork Racecourse, Mallow, at the weekend.

Last year, around 30,000 people attended Mallow Home and Garden Festival and numbers are expected to be just as big this year.

More than 200 exhibitors will display a wide range of the latest household and gardening items. Gardening experts, including Peter Dowdall and Dominick Cullinane, will be on hand to give tips.