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* 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.

For further details, please visit our website www.ucc.ie/en/ace-sc2/

* Kanturk Flower and Garden Club’s annual outing will take place on Sunday, June 8, visiting three gardens in Co. Waterford, including Mount Congreve, with evening meal in Dungarvan. Full details, costs, etc, available from Bridget on 087-9086904

* Macroom Flower & Garden Club Members’ Social Evening/ Garden Visit will take place on Wednesday, June 4. Coach pick up Macroom at 5.30p.m. Group departure for World Show is on June 19 at 8am from Macroom (Dunnes Car Park) for overnight trip. Further information contact 087-9821708 or 086-3046608

* Fermoy Flower and Garden club will host Jimmy of ‘Every Blooming Thing’ to give a demonstration on church flowers on Tuesday next in the Adair Hall at 8.00pm All welcome. Visitors €5 euro.

* Peter Dowdall will run two gardening classes next week at The Pavilion Garden Centre. On Wed June 4 at 10.30am the topic is: ‘Tips for low maintenance gardening’ and on Sat June 7 the ‘Family Gardening Project’ takes place at 10.30am. For more info see www.thepavilion.ie

* Dhuvarren Garden opens this bank holiday weekend for the season and times and directions can be obtained from www.dhuvarrengarden.com.

*Powerscourt Gardens in County Wicklow has been voted into third place in the World’s Top 10 Gardens by National Geographic. Upcoming events include its Rose Festival and an outdoor performance of ‘The Jungle Book’. www.powerscourt.com

* Graepel Kinsale, the Cork-based engineering company, has the unique distinction of being involved in Hugo Bugg’s winning Waterscape Garden, in this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. Graepel supplied the exceptional Picture-Perf Walkway which was an integral feature of the award-winning layout.