Get ready for the Third Annual Galway Garden Festival on Sat and Sun 14th -15th July 2012.

We are preparing the festival for you at the moment. In the meantime, to give some flavour, much of the details for the 2011 festival are included on the site.

Over 45 specialist Nurseries from all over Ireland will attend and provide an opportunity to purchase rare, unusual and special plants at reasonable prices. Garden furniture, Pots, Tools, Ornament and sculpture will also be on offer.

Live Music, Food stalls, childrens’ entertainment, specialist bookshop and more….

The Festival will open from 11am to 6pm each day. A free Courtesy Bus will be available from city centre Rail station to Festival hourly from 1030 am each day. Thank you Bus Eireann.

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Speakers for 2011 will include...

• Gordon D’Arcy, Naturalist
• Dr. John Feehan, University College Dublin, author
• Prof. Allan Foster, Global head, Christian Blind Mission
• Dr. Matthew Jebb, Director, Botanic Gardens, Dublin
• Dr. Anna Jeffrey-Gibson, Kinvara sustainable living
• Mr. Niall Mac Coitir, Author
• Thomas Pakenham, Historian and Arborist
• Mr. Paul Price, Woodwright
• Prof. Oliver Rackham, OBE, Cambridge University
• Prof. William Smyth, Geographer, University College, Cork

Each presenter will speak on the subject of trees.

2011 – International Year of Forests.

2011 has been declared theInternational Year of Forests by the United Nations as the world's governments struggle to agree a sane policy for management of the Earth's Forests. Meanwhile, the health of all, the livelihoods of an estimated 1.6 billion people, the existence of 80% of land based biodiversity and the hope for a climate resilient future are endangered by the destruction of our rich diversity of Forest.

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