Naming A New Snowdrop!
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by Andrew Gee
1M ago
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 the world of the famed galanthophiles. The snowdrop in question is a late, large flowering G. elwesii variety and is highly scented. It is long flowering and has large olive-coloured ovaries. A simple horse shoe inner green marking is also noted. (L-R Hester Forde, Brian ..read more
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AGS Dublin Group Show April 27th
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by Marie Curran
1M ago
The AGS Dublin Group Show will be held on the 27th of April, from 1.30pm to 4pm. Venue: Cabinteely Community School, Co Dublin, D18 VH73. €3 admission (members & children free). (Image courtesy of Andrew Gee) The post AGS Dublin Group Show April 27th appeared first on Irish Garden Plant Society ..read more
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AGS Ulster Group Show April 6th
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by Marie Curran
1M ago
This years AGS Ulster Group show will be held on the 6th of April, from 11am to 4pm. Venue: Greenmount College, Co. Antrim, BT41 4PU. Admission £4 (members free). (Image courtesy of Andrew Gee) The post AGS Ulster Group Show April 6th appeared first on Irish Garden Plant Society ..read more
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The Annual Snowdrop Gala 2024
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by Marie Curran
1M ago
Article and images courtesy of Áine-Máire Ní Mhurchú The Annual Snowdrop Gala at Ballykealey House and Altamont Gardens, County Carlow occurred a week earlier than previous years on the 27th of January. With the mild weather it tied in perfectly with the early blossoming of many Snowdrops and other winter flowering shrubs and bulbs. On the Friday night before Gala day, early arrivals were treated to a wonderful talk by Tom Coward, Head Gardener at Gravetye Manor, East Sussex. The historic gardens here were created by the ‘wild gardening’ enthusiast William Robinson during the 19th Cent ..read more
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AGM Weekend in County Down 18th & 19th May
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by Marie Curran
2M ago
The magnificent Clandeboye Estate in north County Down will be the venue for this years AGM and will be followed by visits to nearby private gardens over the weekend of the 18th & 19th of May. The 2000 acre estate on the outskirts of Bangor, 12 miles north-east of Belfast, contains formal and walled gardens, woodlands, a lake and around 620 acres of farmland. Dating from 1674 and owned by the Dufferin and Ava family, its historic parklands were laid out by the 1st Marquis 1226-1902). The AGM: Registration and refreshments will take place in the grand Banqueting Hall, one of the early 18th ..read more
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Balbriggan and District Horticultural Society garden talk and demonstration
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by Marie Curran
2M ago
on PRUNING by Dominica Mc Kevitt head gardener in Ardgillan Park. The demonstration will include pruning roses, fruit trees, vines, shrubs and climbers and will take place on Thursday the 18th of January at 8:30 p.m. in the scouts Den market Green balbriggan K32 DH66. Admission is €5 and includes tea and biscuits. There will also be a plant and seed swap and a raffle. Other plants will also be available for sale or by small donation. Everybody is welcome.  For more information Tel 087 7520506. Dominica Mc Kevitt has been head gardener in Ardgillan Park for many years and has vast expe ..read more
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Greening a city: the opportunities and challenges of creating a liveable Amsterdam
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by Marie Curran
2M ago
Space to grow – How our gardens and open spaces can help us achieve a liveable future. Tickets for the GLDA Seminar on Saturday 24th February are on sale now on the GLDA website. Ton Muller is head Landscape Designer at the Municipality of Amsterdam. He works as a designer and planting expert on a wide range of complex urban projects. His work brings together themes such as biodiversity, city climate, community building and water management. More frequent hosepipe bans will ensure we will all look to have more drought tolerant gardens, but recent flooding in Ireland has pointed to the ne ..read more
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Evaluation of indoor horticulture to support the mental health and wellbeing of neurodivergent communities
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by Marie Curran
2M ago
A fully funded PhD position is currently available at Ulster University, in the Faculty of Life and Health Sciences on ‘Evaluation of indoor horticulture to support the mental health and wellbeing of neurodivergent communities”, Life and Health Sciences. People who have Autism, ADHD, ADD, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Dyspraxia are often referred to as being neurodivergent. This refers to their brain being wired differently from the mainstream population of individuals, affecting their ability to participate in activities or interact with others in the community. This population of peopl ..read more
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Taxus baccata ‘Lutea’
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by Marie Curran
3M ago
The first Irish Heritage Plant (IHP) to be recorded is a variation of our native yew. The upright form with vertical branches which was found growing on a hillside close to Florencecourt, County Fermanagh, is known worldwide as the Irish yew. It is not the only unique variation of the native yew, but its poisonous foliage and berries saw it mostly grown in churchyards and cemeteries, its tall columnar form like sentinels for those laid to rest. Yew is a dioecious species meaning male and female flowers are produced on different plants. Taxus baccata ‘Lutea’ is, like the Irish yew, a female of ..read more
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Galanthus ‘Kildare’
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by Marie Curran
3M ago
While the snowdrop seems to exert a special fascination on many members of the gardening public and there are plenty of books about snowdrops, comparatively little coverage is given to those snowdrops that have been found, or bred, and named in the gardens and nurseries of Ireland. One of the choice Irish snowdrops that we grow is Galanthus ‘Kildare’; it is a really good virescent (Ed. an overall greenish appearance so has green on the outer segments) snowdrop and frequently produces two scapes from one bulb. This cultivar is considered to be a G. nivalis x G. plicatus cross and was found by t ..read more
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