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Plant fairs.

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  • 13-04-2018 10:00am
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    my3cents
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    Thought this may be of interest, just looked it up myself as I always try and get to the spring plant fair at Fota Island. Note there may be an entrance fee.

    https://www.irishspecialistnurseriesassociation.com/2018-calendar-isna-plant-fairs-other-plant-fairs-and-garden-shows/ main text copied and pasted below...

    PLANT FAIRS 2018

    ISNA PLANT FAIRS

    APRIL 1st and 2nd, Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin 15

    APRIL 8th, Claregalway Spring Fair, Claregalway Castle, Co Galway

    APRIL 15th, Airfield Estate. Dundrum, Dublin 14

    MAY 25th, 26th, 27th, Mallow Homes and Garden Show, Mallow, Co Cork

    SEPTEMBER 16th, Fota House and Gardens, Carrigtwohill, Co Cork

    OTHER PLANT FAIRS & GARDEN SHOWS 2018
    Some of our members will be participating in the plant fairs and garden shows listed below.

    APRIL 22nd, Fota House and Gardens Spring Show, Carrigtwohill, Co Cork

    APRIL 29th, Clare Garden Festival, Ennis, Co Clare

    MAY 4th, 5th and 6th, Garden Show Ireland, Antrim Castle, Co Antrim

    MAY 13th, Rare and Special Plant Fair, Burtown House, Athy, Co Kildare

    MAY 20th, Mount Congreve Garden Show, Waterford

    MAY 31st to June 4th, Bloom in the Park, Phoenix Park, Dublin 15

    JUNE 10th, Laois Garden Festival, Spink, Co Laois

    JUNE 16th, Tullynally Castle, Castlepollard, Co Westmeath

    JUNE 17th, Limerick Garden Festival, Milk Market, Limerick

    JUNE 23rd and 24th, Galway Homes and Garden Show, Galway

    JULY 1st, Lissadell House Garden Show, Ballinful, Co Sligo

    JULY 7th & 8th, Galway Garden Festival, Claregalway

    JULY 14th & 15th Rose Festival, St Annes Park, Raheny, Dublin 5

    JULY 15th, Blarney in Bloom, Blarney Castle, Co Cork

    July 22nd, Strokestown, Co Roscommon

    JULY 29th, RHSI Garden Show, Russborough, Co Wicklow

    AUGUST 5th, Farmleigh Autumn Plant Fair, Phoenix Park, Dublin

    SEPTEMBER 9th, Claregalway Castle Garden Show, Co Galway


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    my3cents
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    RE: Fota House APRIL 22nd Admission is €8 but iirc parking is free. 11am - 4pm and if past experience is anything to go by there are often queues to get in and if you are really looking for interesting plants be there early. https://www.facebook.com/pg/FotaHouse/posts/ .


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    macraignil
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    I was thinking of going to the Fota House plant fair this year having never gone before. Would you recommend it? Is it private sellers offering the interesting plants or is it more nurseries are setting up stalls? What sort of prices are they looking for usually?


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    my3cents
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    macraignil wrote: »
    I was thinking of going to the Fota House plant fair this year having never gone before. Would you recommend it? Is it private sellers offering the interesting plants or is it more nurseries are setting up stalls? What sort of prices are they looking for usually?

    Highly recommended, its mostly small specialist nurseries selling stuff you wouldn't get in a garden center. iirc its something like 70 odd sellers.

    Lots or really rare stuff, but the really rare stuff does sell very quickly.


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    my3cents
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    Just back from Fota House Plant Fair, nice morning out and we are at least €200 lighter :rolleyes: Plenty of work to do next week as if we didn't have enough to do in the garden.

    Next one we are probably going to is Mount Congreve Waterford 20th of May, its really a bit late in the year for planting stuff for us (ground dries out very quickly in the summer) but you never know what you will find. Chatting to the guys at Future Forests (futureforests.ie) they said if I emailed them a list of stuff I wanted they could bring it to Mount Congreve to save me paying for mail order delivery, so might be taking them up in that.


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    my3cents
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    In addition to the list above I found these on the back of a leaflet I picked up at Fota House

    MAY 25th-27th Fri-Sun Mallow Garden Festival (exhibitions.ie)

    JULY 15th Sun Blarney in Bloom (blarneycastle.ie)

    SEPY 16th Sun Fota Autumn Plant Fair (fotahouse.com)


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    macraignil
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    my3cents wrote: »
    Highly recommended, its mostly small specialist nurseries selling stuff you wouldn't get in a garden center. iirc its something like 70 odd sellers.

    Lots or really rare stuff, but the really rare stuff does sell very quickly.

    Thanks for the recommendation. There was quite a good selection of plants to choose from. Not all of them as competitive as I would like but got a few good additions for the garden.
    All the best.


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    my3cents
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    macraignil wrote: »
    Thanks for the recommendation. There was quite a good selection of plants to choose from. Not all of them as competitive as I would like but got a few good additions for the garden.
    All the best.

    There were some mad prices fair enough, think I saw some of the big Echium pininana for €25 but they were selling :rolleyes:


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