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Friday 3 October 2021 Tickets: €50 or €45 with Friends discount Join the Lismore Castle Gardens team for a hands-on festive wreath-making workshop. Construct and decorate your own Christmas Wreath using foliage from the Castle Gardens. Materials will be provided. Mulled wine and seasonal treats included. There will be two sessions on the day. Please…

STRAT AND SCARF Spring is traditionally thought of as the time to start sowing your seeds and this is true for many genus of plants, but so many more prefer and even benefit from autumn or winter sowings. There are many reasons why you’ll have success sowing at this time of year, the main one…

In the garden the winter Aconites, Witch Hazel and Sarcococca are in flower, regarded as some of the first to flower and the harbingers of spring. Being out in the garden you notice that it never really stops. It quietens down but is never still. Buds are fattening as the remnants of last seasons flowers…

This is an image of the Vinery in the upper garden here at Lismore Castle. It was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton and built in 1853. The 6th Duke of Devonshire had carried out extensive works on the castle through the early part of the 19th century and instructed Paxton, his Head Gardener at the time,  to…

Five years ago, the team here at Lismore set about turning the previously lawned orchard into a meadow. It was one of the first jobs that Darren Topps, our Head Gardener, implemented on his arrival and since then more areas have been turned over to 'wild' grassed areas. Darren brought with him a deep knowledge…

"You must be looking forward to a bit of downtime for the Winter"   ...... sigh. How many gardeners hear this and how often.. every year! Most of the time we can all shrug it off and calmly explain to the unfortunate indoor cats the reality of the situation. Sometimes though, when we've been out in…