2016-17 Club Meetings
The first Club Meeting of the 2016-17 season will be on Tuesday 27th September 2106, 8 pm in Foxrock Parish Pastoral Centre. 'Planning a Small Garden' by Brian Wood from Murphy and Wood Garden Centre, Glenageary
Trip to Sligo and South Donegal July 2016
On Sunday 3rd July 45 members left for a hugely enjoyable four day trip planned by Lucille and Toni to visit gardens mainly in Sligo and south Donegal. We were based in the Sligo Park Hotel where the staff looked after us very well - at least one of us has already booked a return [...]
Day Trips to Carlow Garden Festival – July 2016
On Saturday 23rd, July, 24 members of our club travelled to the Arboretum Garden Centre in Tullow to hear Diarmuid Gavin at the opening of the Carlow Garden Festival. Diarmuid gave us a very entertaining talk on his life as a garden designer from his early years when he was struggling to make ends meet [...]
Spring-Summer 2016
Before we put the garden to bed in late autumn, we had planted a lot of bulbs and corms - mostly daffodils, tulips, eranthis and anemones so when we started back after St. Patrick's Day we had a great splash of colour. Some of the annuals that we had planted last year had survived the [...]
Day Trip to Co Meath – 15 July 2015
We were blessed with good weather for our visit to Co. Meath - just a short hop across the M50 from Foxrock. The morning was spent in Jane McCorkell’s stunning garden, Bramley Cottage, Killsallaghan. Jane told us how she had planned and planted the series of garden rooms with large perennial borders sitting perfectly into the landscape and [...]
Day Trip – September 2014
Our last trip of the Season was to Counties Kildare and Wicklow in September. Robert Wilson White greeted us on arrival at our first stop, Coolcarrigan House and Gardens, Coill Dubh, Naas. He plied us with coffee and cake before taking us on a tour of his gardens, with its lovely selection of mature trees, [...]
Day Trip – June 2014
In June we took a trip across the Liffey to North County Dublin, visiting St Anne’s Park Raheny to enjoy a guided tour of the gardens, finishing in the gloriously flamboyant and beautifully scented Rose Garden. After lunch in the Tir na nOg Cafe, it was back on the coach again as Nigel took us [...]
Day Trip – April 2014
Our first trip of the year in April saw us visit Counties Carlow and Kildare. First up was Altamont in Tullow where, after listening to a brief history of the Estate, we were taken on a tour of the lovely gardens - a blend of formal and informal planting with sweeping lawns, woodland walks, and [...]