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 [...]

Mairin hosts an open day at her garden at 3, The Birches, off Torquay Road, Foxrock. Donation at the door in aid of the Capuchin Day Centre.      

A chance to visit Elaine's garden at 15 Clonkeen Road, Deansgrange in aid of the Laura Lynn Foundation. Tea & Coffee will be available.  

At Wildegoose Nursery in Shropshire, Laura and Jack Willgoss specialise in growing choice hardy perennial plants.  Having studied together at RHS Garden Wisley, they had a dream to find and restore an abandoned walled garden and run a nursery of their own.  Wildegoose, set in the Shropshire countryside, is a small independent nursery, garden and [...]