Garden Digest: Summer events for your diary

We check out the garden ideas, tours, fairs and online resources available to help you boost your room outside

James Purdy, winner of the Large Show Garden,  at Bord Bia Bloom on Thursday.

Fermoy Flower and Garden club will host Mary Keogh to give a demonstration titled 'Summer Time' on Tuesday, June 3, in the Adair Hall at 8pm. All welcome. Visitors €10.

Eight gold medals were awarded to show garden designers as the five-day Bord Bia Bloom opened on Thursday, at Phoenix Park, among them James Purdy, who won the Large Show Garden prize for his design.

Cobh Flower and Horticulture Club will hold its next meeting on Monday, June 9, in Cobh Community Centre at 7pm. It will be a gardening night and will include a talk on grafting. Visitors welcome. Admission €10.

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

One of the must-see events of the 2025 Carlow Garden Festival in July will be a lively conversation that brings together BBC Gardeners’ World favourite Adam Frost and Ireland rugby star Peter O’Mahony, revealing another passion of this great Munster and Ireland legend — gardening. It takes place at the Arboretum Home and Garden Heaven in Leighlinbridge (R93 P9F4). Time: 7.30pm. Tickets €25.

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