Garden Digest: Summer shows, festivals and club events

Check out all the garden visits, tours, talks, campaigns and online resources for the room outside

Sat, 10 May, 2025 - 07:12

CLUB NOTES

Cobh Flower and Horticulture Club will hold its next meeting on Monday, May 12, in Cobh Community Centre at 7pm. It will be a teaching night with Sandra Jackson. Visitors welcome. Admission, €10.

East Cork Flower Club will meet on Monday, May 12, at 7.30pm in St John the Baptist NS, Dungourney Road, Midleton. Speaker Susanne Raven will give a talk on ‘The benefits of mowing by scythe’. The night includes a members’ competition. Visitors, €7. Tea/coffee included.

Clonakilty Flower Club will hold its gala charity night on Monday, May 12, at 8pm in the GAA Complex, Ahamilla, Clonakilty. Demonstrator is Harumi Langford of AOIFA. Proceeds in aid of CoAction (remembering Ella Cahill) and the AOIFA national charity, Breast Cancer Ireland. The event includes a sales table and refreshments. Admission, €20.

Kinsale Garden & Flower Club will host Eileen of Brien of the club, along with Kinsale fashion boutiques Mad For Style, Ms Ellie’s Boutique, and Hattitude, as they present ‘Fun with Fashion and Flowers’ in Actons Hotel, Kinsale, on Wednesday, May 14, at 8pm. Proceeds are in aid of the Friary Renovation Fund. Tickets available from the Friary Office, on the door, or by contacting Nicola Desmond at 086-8515371 or Eileen O’Brien at 021-4773256.

Ballincollig Flower and Garden Club will host a talk titled ‘Desirable Shrubs for Flowers, Foliage and Other Effects’ by Mary Keenan, Gash Gardens, RHSI. It takes place on Thursday, May 15, at 8pm at Gaelscoil Uí Ríordáin (Eircode: P31 V242). All welcome. Non-members, €10. Includes light refreshments. Raffle tickets, €5. Club annual membership, €40.

SUMMER SHOWS AND FESTIVALS

The Garden Show is taking place in Broadford, Co Limerick, today in the local community centre (Eircode: P56 D402). It will include insightful talks from a diverse range of speakers on sustainable floristry, soil care and composting, designing and planting a mixed garden, and edible plants. There will be a guided walk to the local arboretum from Éanna Ní Lamhna, a plant auction, and much more.

Mallow Home & Garden Festival takes place on May 23, 24 and 25.

Cork Summer Show will offer floral art, horticulture, and fruit and vegetable competitions which are now open on corksummershow.com. The Cork Summer Show, organised by the Munster Agricultural Society, takes place on June 14-15 at Curraheen Showgrounds, Cork.