Events

Carlow Garden Festival’ “Garden Tour of Delta Sensory Gardens”

Delta Sensory Gardens & Garden Centre Strawhall Estate, Carlow

Marie Staunton leads a garden tour around Delta Sensory Gardens showing how gardeners can mix texture and colour to create wonderful and exciting combinations. Regularly voted as top visitor attraction in Carlow on Trip Advisor, this journey takes the visitor through the series of multi-sensory gardens including the formal Rose Garden, the Five Senses Garden, the Circle of Life and the Stolen Child Garden, which have been created by Ireland's leading garden designers to indulge every one of the senses.

Carlow Garden Festival’s “Great Dixter – Past, Present and Future” with Fergus Garrett

Huntington Castle and Gardens Clonegal

Fergus, chosen by Gardens Illustrated as one of the 30 most influential living garden designers and horticultural educator in Britain, talks about the history of Great Dixter, the 15th century manor house and its restoration by the famous arts and crafts architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens. In a wide ranging talk, he explores the influence of Nathaniel Lloyd on its infrastructure and design