Garden Digest: Events to help you to enjoy your room outside

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Cobh Flower and Horticulture Club will hold its next meeting on April 13 where Colm Damery will give a talk on 'Bees and other pollinators on Great Island and how we can help them'. 

Cobh Flower and Horticulture Club will hold its next meeting on April 13 in Cobh Community Centre. Doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm sharp start. Colm Damery will give a talk on “Bees and other Pollinators on Great Island and how we can help them”. Visitors welcome. Admission €5.

Clonakilty Flower Club hosts a floral demonstration with Melanie Harris, Aoifa, on April 14 at 8pm at the GAA complex, Ahamilla, Clonakilty, Co Cork. Decorative and horticulture competitions. All welcome, €10. Find the club on Facebook.

All are welcome to the garden show at Broadford, Co Limerick, on Saturday, April 18, from 9.30am in the local community centre (P56D402). You'll get plenty of advice at the event which features the award-winning creator of Patthana Gardens, Co Wicklow, TJ Maher, and master gardeners David Hannon, Tom Giltinane, and Siobhan O’Mahoney. The show also includes interactive experiences, plant sales, and arts and craft stalls.

Tralee Flower & Garden Club hosts an Easter demonstration by Liz McAuliffe on April 14 at 7.30pm at the Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee. New members and visitors welcome, €10.

Limerick Flower & Garden Club hosts a teaching demonstration with Mary McKee on April 14 at 7.55pm at the Castletroy Park Hotel. Raffle and club competition. New members and visitors welcome, €10.

Lismore Castle is the venue for a cream tea and talk on the castle by the Duke of Devonshire’s butler, Denis Nevin, and a guided garden tour on Devonshire Day, April 19. Tickets, €25, plus booking fee, at Lismore-Immrama.com and Eventbrite

Ladysbridge & District Flower & Garden Club hosts Siobhan O’Mahony, O’Mahony Garden, Ballylanders, Co Limerick, in the Garryvoe Hotel at 8pm on April 20. She will give a presentation on her acclaimed garden (Omahonygarden.com).

Mallow Flower & Garden Club hosts a spring demonstration by Eileen O’Brien (Aoifa) on April 21 at Mallow College of Further Education at 7pm. Visitors welcome, entry €10.

Cork Alpine Hardy Plant Society hosts a talk by Jimi Blake, Hunting Brook Gardens, Wicklow, “Woodland Planting at Hunting Brook”, on April 23 at 8pm at Scoil Mhuire Naofa, Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, T45PF80. All welcome. Visitors €10.

Ballincollig Flower & Garden Club hosts herbalist Sonya McGee, of Ballymaloe Gardens Club, on April 23 at 8pm, at Gaelscoil Uí Ríordáin, Ballincollig, Co Cork, P31 V242. Visitors welcome to the talk, €10.

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