On Wednesday morning 12th September thirty members of Foxrock Garden Club met bright and early for the final garden visit of the 2018 season. We set off for Co. Wicklow on a lovely Autumn morning to visit the gardens of two well known gardeners namely Jimi Blake of Hunting Brook near Blessington and T.J. Maher [...]
32 members took this wonderful trip. We stayed centrally in Brighton and were expertly driven to our various destinations by our ever kind and courteous Graeme. There were two main attractions, the first visited by us being Great Dixter House (mainly designed by Lutyens) and the Gardens, designed by Lutyens and later by the late [...]
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Sean Heffernan, the head gardener at Mount Usher welcomed a group of Club Members on Thursday on our October visit to see the wonderful Autumn Colour. The morning dawned bright and sunny. There are numerous “Champion Trees” to be seen here, from all corners of the world. Sean brought his “garden bible” with [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]