Garden Notes: July events for your diary

This is a weekend to enjoy the giftedness of those who create with the spade, the palette knife, the loom, or the lathe — a chance for the soul to catch up.

Innishannon will host its seventh Gardens and Galleries event this weekend. It begins in the parish hall, where you can pick up a map and a ticket for €10, which gives entry to all gardens and galleries. In the parish hall and around the village, there will be a variety of art displays and gardens on view. From the parish hall, you can also board a free minibus which will take you around to the outlying gardens. This is a weekend to enjoy the giftedness of those who create with the spade, the palette knife, the loom, or the lathe — a chance for the soul to catch up.

Rewild, the one-day music, food and arts festival, takes place on the rewilded grounds of the Old Dunloe Golf Course, Killarney, on Saturday, July 12. Rewild was born from the need to nourish our connection to community and honour our relationship to our land. See Rewildfestival.ie.

The RHSI Bellefield is hosting an open weekend on July 19 and 20. Head gardener Paul Smyth will give free tours at 12pm and 2pm, where you’ll pick up expert tips and insights into the garden’s seasonal transformations. Admission is free for RHSI members; guests, €8. Immerse yourself in a garden that evolves with the seasons. The open weekends offer the perfect opportunity to explore this historic setting, meet fellow garden lovers, and support a wonderful cause.

A must-see event, the 2025 Carlow Garden Festival in July will be a lively conversation that brings together BBC Gardeners’ World favourite Adam Frost and 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 (Eircode R93 P9F4), on Saturday, July 26, at 7.30pm; tickets, €25.

Fota House & Gardens now offers an even more memorable visitor experience. A major programme of conservation and restoration has just been completed, to the value of €2.2m over four years, including structural roof repairs, revitalisation of the house’s regency interiors, and the conservation of the McCarthy 19th-century landscape art collection. Victorian garden tours take place at 1.30pm on Wednesdays and Fridays — €10, adults; €8, seniors/students; €5, children.

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