Tamsin Westhorpe, freelance writer and curator gardener of stockton bury gardens – ‘Life as a garden writer’
Tamsin has over 25 years’ experience in the horticultural industry. Her career has seen her edit ‘The English Garden’ Magazine, contribute to national newspapers and magazines, lecture at Kingston Maurward College in Dorset and care for parks and gardens. She is now a freelance writer and curator and gardener of Stockton Bury Gardens in Herefordshire. [...]
Diarmuid Gavin, Garden Designer and TV Presenter – ‘Creating Gardens,Home and Away’
March 30th at 7.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m Diarmuid Gavin, Garden Designer and TV Presenter - 'Creating Gardens,Home and Away'
Timothy Walker, Botanist – “On Top but Never in Control”
"On Top but Never in Control" Timothy Walker was previously Director of Oxford Botanic Gardens. This is the story of making his wife's small town garden. Zoom Talk, hosted by Wexford Garden & Flower Club
Conrad McCormick, garden designer, freelance garden journalist and environmentalist – ‘Fantastic foliage and phenomenal flowers.’
Conrad is a garden designer, freelance garden journalist and environmentalist. He has appeared on the RTE/BBC NI Gardening Together TV show and regularly contributes to BBC Radio Ulster's Gardeners Corner programme. He has a passion for unusual and exotic plants which he grows in his suburban North Antrim garden.
Rosie Hardy of Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants – “From Back Garden to Chelsea Gold”
"From Back Garden to Chelsea Gold" Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants was founded in 1988 by Rosy Hardy. Anyone who has visited Chelsea Flower Show will surely have spent time looking with envy at their stand. Herbaceous plants in garden settings - they have won 24 Gold medals so far Zoom Talk, hosted by Wexford Garden [...]
Mary Keenan, owner of Gash Gardens & Nursery, horticultural consultant, garden writer and lecturer – ‘What I have learned from Gardening’
Mary Keenan B.Agr.Sc (Landscape Horticulture) Gash Gardens & Nursery, Castletown, Portlaoise. Co. Laois R32K068 Email: gashgardens@gmail.com Telephone: 087-2737883 https://gashgardens.ie/ Mary Keenan, together with her husband Ross Doyle, is the owner of Gash Gardens & Nursery in County Laois. She has been gardening and growing plants for over 40 years. After qualifying with a degree in [...]
A.G.M. – 1st June 2021 @ 7.30pm
TUESDAY, 1st June 2021, 7.30pm to 8.00pm A.G.M.
Dan Hinkley, Plantsman & Plant Hunter – ‘Connoisseurs Table’
Dan Hinkley is an American plantsman, plant hunter, garden writer, horticulturist, nursery man and lecturer. He is known throughout the world as one of our foremost plant explorers and plantsmen and is committed to sustainable horticultural practices and raising the collective awareness of the diversity of plant life on Earth, as well as the magic [...]
Dr. Timothy Walker, Botanist, Gardener & Lecturer – ‘Plants, Borders and Gardens’
Dr. Timothy Walker is a Botanist, Gardener and Lecturer. He read Botany at University College Oxford and upon graduation worked as a trainee at University Oxford Botanic Garden. He subsequently studied at Askham Bryan College York, did a traineeship at Savill Garden Windsor and completed a diploma at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. In 1995 he [...]
Helen Picton, The Picton Garden & Old Court Nurseries – ‘It is NOT time for bed yet’
Helen Picton is a specialist grower of autumn flowering asters. The Picton family operates Old Court Nurseries and The Picton Garden in Herefordshire, England. The nursery was established by Ernest Ballard, the first nurseryman to popularise autumn-flowering asters. The Pictons hold the Plant Heritage National Plant Collection of autumn-flowering asters, with more than four hundred [...]