All roads lead to Kerry for Ireland's 'friendliest garden gathering' 

Peter Dowdall is looking forward to the seventh Southern Symposium which is returning to Kells Bay Gardens this month

Kells Bay Gardens.

In the summer of 2014, after seven years in Kells Bay, Co Kerry. Billy Alexander reached what he considered was the “end of the beginning”.

The mammoth task of reclaiming the gardens and restoring the house was in hand and it was time to celebrate and publicise the achievement. A who’s who of gardening royalty assembled at Kells Bay and heard talks from the Oracle of Kilmacurragh, Seamus O’Brien, and the legendary Roy Lancaster.