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Galway Garden Festival, Claregalway Castle. Fáilte.

             Get ready for the third Galway Garden Festival 

              on Saturday & Sunday, 14th -15th July, 2012.

       'Glorious Gardens' is the theme of this year's festival.

Specialist Nurseries from all over Ireland will attend and provide an opportunity to purchase rare and unusual plants at reasonable prices. Garden furniture, Pots, Tools, Ornaments, botanical art, sculpture AND garden advice from experienced gardeners will be available.

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

The Festival is open from 11am to 6pm each day. A free Courtesy Bus will be available hourly from Galway city centre Rail Station to the Festival  from 10.30 am each day. Thank you Bus Eireann.

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Speakers for 2012 include celebrated gardeners...

  • Helen Dillon, internationally renowned gardener, lecturer, author and broadcaster www.dillongarden.com
  • Diarmuid Gavin, Garden Designer, Chelsea Gold Medalist, 2011, author and TV broadcaster www.diarmuidgavindesigns.com
  • Joy Larkcom, Author, Plantswoman, Broadcaster, lecturer and Vegetable Expert.

The VEITCH MEMORIAL MEDAL is awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society to

"persons of any nationality who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement and improvement of the science and practice of horticulture".

Joy Larkcom (1993) and Helen Dillon (1999) were each awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal.

     
  Summer is the time for travelling,
The great forest trees at peace,
No whistling wind to stir them,
The woodland’s cloak fresh green,
Streams vaporizing
And even the ground is warm.		 Fó sín samrad sithaister,
sám fid forard forglide
nach fet gaíthe glúaiséba,
glas clúm caille clithaige,
sóit srotha sáebuisci
tes i fótán fó.
 
  From an Early Middle Irish text.
  Trans. Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha

Bígí linn ag an deireadh seachtaine speisialta seo.

Claregalway Castle during 2010 festival.Thanks to Tourism Ireland for their support.
Houses Castles and Gardens of Ireland love the Galway Garden Festival.
 
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Back Garden

The first three letters of the ancient Irish Ogam alphabet were not A, B, C but B, L, N. Every letter of Ogam had a word associated with it, and many of these words were tree-names.

B was known as Beithe ‘Birch’, L as Luis ‘Rowan’, and N as Nin ‘Ash’. The whole alphabet was often called Beithe Luis Nin.

The letters were termed feda ‘trees’, and a single letter-score was called flesc ‘twig’. The Modern Irish word for ‘hyphen’ is fleiscín.--Seanchas.

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone”. --Czeslaw Milosz - ‘Longing’

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything” --Cicero.

“Maireann an crann ar an bhfál ach ní mhaireann an lámh a chuir”. --Seanfhocal

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