Lecture at NBG Glasnevin: Dr Mary Forrest on ‘Trees in Ireland – some distinguished natives and honoured guests’. 8th March 2025 at 11am
Trees have been a lifelong interest for Dr Mary Forrest from her time studying in the Botanic Gardens, through cataloging tree and shrub collections in Ireland to her many years as a horticultural lecturer in University College Dublin. Though trees native to Ireland number 17 – 20 species, trees introduced over many centuries from […]
Delphinium ‘Weeshy’s Blue’
Brendan Sayers provides an account of a wonderful Delphinium of Irish origin: Delphinium ‘Weeshy’s Blue’ [pronounced wish she] arose as a seedling sown by Anthony Aloysius Doherty at Pretty See Cottage in County Meath approximately 10 years ago. It grew among other delphinum seedlings and it was not until it was a mature clump that its […]
2025 AGM in Oranmore, Co. Galway – BOOKING NOW OPEN
Members are invited to attend this year’s Irish Garden Plant Society Annual General Meeting based in Oranmore, County Galway on 17th-18th May 2025. Join us for a weekend in the unique landscape of south Galway and County Clare, with visits to nurseries, gardens and The Burren. PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR BOOKING VIA EVENTBRITE […]
Lecture at NBG Glasnevin: The Wonderful World of Fuchsias with Leonie Meehan 15th February 2025
Leonie Meehan established the Irish Fuchsia Nursery in 2018, with the goal of producing top quality, disease free, robust plants which are suited to the Irish climate. In 2023, she won a gold medal at Bloom in the Nursery category. The Irish Fuchsia Nursery in Gorey, Co. Wexford, which is the only specialist Fuchsia […]
Zoom Talk – Growing your own cut flowers seasonally & sustainably’ with Fionnuala Fallon. Thursday 6th February 7.30pm
IGPS Zoom talk with Fionnuala Fallon, ‘Growing your own cut flowers seasonally & sustainably’ Thursday 6th February at 7.30pm Fionnuala is a National Botanic Gardens-trained horticulturist, garden writer, flower farmer and florist with a deep-rooted love of seasonality and sustainability. She has been the gardening correspondent for The Irish Times since 2011. Together with her […]
Lecture at Glasnevin – Insights into Plant Trials for the Trade – Hydrangeas and Sunflowers by Donall Flanagan – 18th Jan 2024
Dόnall Flanagan is the Nursery Stock/Ornamentals Advisor to Teagasc at Ashtown in the Phoenix Park. He will give us some insights into the process by which named varieties of ornamental plants are chosen and are likely to reach our garden centres. There will be surprises along the way! The talk will be at 2pm on Saturday […]
Zoom Talk – Steve Edney – 16th October 2024, 7.30pm
Steve Edney has been perfecting his art for 30 years. After studying Horticulture at Hadlow College and Arboriculture at Merrist Wood College, he spent several years as a highly respected private gardener, tree surgeon and designer. In 2005, he joined The Salutation to helm its huge restoration project, setting out a 5-year plan of restoration […]
Gardens Open for National Garden Scheme NI
Gardens Open For Charity in Northern Ireland in 2024 The booklet detailing the open gardens can now be viewed at the link below, courtesy of NGS NI. https://ngs.org.uk/app/uploads/2024/02/ni_2024.pdf
Visit to Coolwater Garden – Report
On Saturday the 20th of April 2024, twenty members and friends from Clare, Cork, and Tipperary, Dublin, Meath and Wexford were visited this stunning garden near Limerick. Coolwater is an artistically designed garden on only half an acre and steps to the beat of a different drum. No lawns and borders to be found in […]
A New Snowdrop – Galanthus ‘Patrick Tobin’
A very special snowdrop, which has recently been named for IGPS member, former IGPS Chair (2012-2016) and regular contributor to our newsletter, Paddy Tobin. Galanthus plicatus ‘Patrick Tobin’. It is a form of Galanthus plicatus which arose naturally as a seedling in the renowned Primrose Hill Gardens and was selected by Robin Hall, who decided […]
New Irish Heritage Plant Collection at Holywood College
New Irish Heritage Plant Collection at Holywood College (L-R – Billy McCone, Joanna Loane, Nichola Monk and Helen McAneney) “Joanna Loane is adding to SERC’s Holywood Campus garden, with native Irish plants and Irish Cultivars” Aspiring to start an Irish Heritage Plant collection at the South Eastern Regional College (SERC) campus garden in Holywood, Co. […]
Naming A New Snowdrop!
At the annual Snowdrop Gala in County Carlow, regular attendees are Brian and Betty Duncan, making the trip South year after year. February 3rd 2024 saw Brian celebrate a significant milestone, his 90th birthday, and to mark the occasion on January 26th a snowdrop was presented to Brian and Betty to bring them both into […]
