Those of you who enjoyed Linda's excellent talk during the year will be delighted to hear that the Club will visit her garden on Saturday, 19th August at 11.00 am. Linda Murphy is a keen gardener with an arts background who, having completed a Masters in Landscape Architecture at UCD in 2000, joined the staff [...]

Dave is an award-winning daffodil grower running Esker Farms with his partner Jules in Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Dave has a degree in Horticulture, previously he was a teacher for 16 years. He started growing daffodils in autumn 2011 and has competed in daffodil shows around the world and won many awards. He will take [...]

Fresh from his prestigious gold medal win at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Billy has already been acclaimed by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) for his rare and exotic fern displays.  His gardens at Kells Bay Gardens are home to one of the largest private collections of exotic tree ferns growing naturally in the microclimate [...]

Award-winning flower artists, Roisin Graham and Marie Laird are joining us to demonstrate a variety of floral Christmas decor! All of the arrangements will be raffled on the night, in aid of the Club's charity fund. Join us for a festive social evening after the demonstration!

Nick Bailey has worked across many sectors of horticulture over the last 30 years, including nursery stock production, garden management, garden design, teaching, public speaking, horticultural consultancy, writing and broadcasting.  He studied horticulture at Hadlow College, continuing his studies there to obtain a first class honours degree in Landscape Design in 1995 awarded by the [...]

Rosie Maye, aka The Insomniac Gardener, has been gardening the three acres around her home near Slane, Co. Meath for over 20 years.  She has created a woodland garden, an ornamental meadow and a Mediterranean courtyard among the ruins of old farm buildings. Rosie writes about gardening in the Irish Garden as well producing a [...]

" The Schachen Alpine Garden was opened in 1901 as an outstation of the Munich Botanic Garden and and is one of the oldest alpine gardens in the Alps.  Situated on the northern flanks of the Wetterstein Range, above the Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the garden has the ideal combination of a cool, moist summer and snow-covered winter [...]

Orlaith has been with the RHSI for three years, where she is administration and development officer. Passionate about ‘edimentals’: ornamental plants which are also edible, she is an organic gardening teacher with a background in forest gardening and permaculture.

Assumpta Broomfield graduated with distinction from the National Botanic Gardens in 1998 .  Assumpta has a special interest in Roses, having collected many old cultivars for propagation, securing their survival.  A well-known and popular speaker, she will discuss the importance of the rose in gardening, including some tales of eccentric women and anecdotes about great [...]