11.00am - 12.00pm

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Historic Gardens - Present & Future
How do we keep historic gardens feeling vibrant and fresh without losing the integrity of the original vision? Join garden designer Catherine FitzGerald from Glin Castle, Neil Porteous, expert consultant gardener for National Trust and OPW, and Colm O’Driscoll, head gardener of Lismore Castle

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Bringing Gardens and Nature Inside
Celebrated floral designer on this side of the Atlantic Shane Connolly will chat with New York’s finest florist Emily Thompson on what inspires their work and their shared ethos of sustainability.

12:30pm - 1:30pm

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Two Growers and a Cook
Cook & co-founder of Ballymaloe Cookery School, Rory O’Connell talks with Tom Petherick, author and expert on sustainable living and biodynamics and Kate Gatacre, a no-dig organic veg grower for London restaurants, chew the cud on the relationship between the cook & the grower.

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Derek Jarman and Prospect Cottage Garden
Jonny Bruce, freelance gardener, writer and planting consultant manages the iconic garden at Prospect Cottage. He talks about the maverick film maker and queer activist Derek Jarman, and the creation of his ground breaking garden on the shingle at Dungeness in Kent which went on to inspire Christopher Lloyd, Beth Chatto and a new wave of gravel gardeners.

2.00pm - 3.00pm

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Building A Natural Swimming Pool
When actor and keen cold water swimmer Dominic West, found the 'Organic swimming pool' pioneer David Pagan Butler via his You Tube channel - it was the perfect meeting of minds. With David's hands on help, Dominic created his own swimming pool/natural eco-system. Learn how to to do it yourself from the master and his pupil.

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Meadows of the World
Seamus O’Brien is one of Ireland's most outstanding modern day plantsmen, renowned throughout Ireland and the UK. He is head gardener at Kilmacurragh Botanical Gardens, where he manages one of the most beautiful and diverse natural meadows in Ireland. Seamus has created a new talk specially for us on the extraordinary meadows of the world with images taken on his travels, such as the camassia drifts in Washington state. He will also be giving us tips on creating a meadow at home.

3:30 - 4:30pm

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The Power of Scent
Cath Kidston, creator of the new beauty and bath brand, C. Atherly, based on the Sweet Geranium (pelargonium) - her long time favourite scent. She will talk with Sadie Chowen, owner of The Burren Perfumery, about scent in the garden and its evocative power.

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From Primordial Soup to Wondrous Diversity
Daragh Lupton, curator at the National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, will take us on a fascinating ramble through 500 million years of plant evolution: how simple life evolved to produce staggering beauty....

5.00pm - 6.00pm

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Gardening for Biodiversity: Waste, topography, alternative soils and dead stuff
John Little, maverick gardener and wildlife advocate, talks about habitat potential, the importance of gardeners and the care of public space.

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Grounded in the Garden
The artist TJ Maher of Patthana Gardens in Wicklow, will talk on creating a beautiful garden in harmony with nature. This will touch on the role of outdoor spaces play, in nurturing us on a personal and spiritual level, the art of colour combination, and on extending the season of interest through clever planting.

6.30pm - 8.00pm

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Lost in the Cedar Wood
Johnny Flynn, actor, singer and environmentalist, teamed up with Nature writer/poet and Professor at Cambridge Universty, Robert Macfarlane, to collaborate on this new album. Johnny will talk to us about the collaborating process and perform some songs from his new album - before setting off on his up-coming tour.

10:30am - 11:30am

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Any Questions - Help from the Gardening Gurus
David Maxwell, from BBC Ulster Gardner’s Corner, will host a panel of experts, to answer all your gardening dilemmas.

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Healing Our Soil
The Land Gardeners: Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld share their knowledge about healthy soil, composting and green manures with cut flower farmer Amelia Raben.

12.00pm - 1.00pm

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Why Organic Gardening?
Kitty Scully from TV’s “Home Grown” and former head gardener at Airfield, Dundrum, and Tom Petherick, author and expert on biodynamics, share a thought-provoking discussion on: 'Growing soil, growing food and growing community'.

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Naturalism & Modernity - a Glimpse into the World of Tom Stuart-Smith's Garden Designs
As head of horticulture at TSS's design office, Edward Shackleton will give us an insight into what it takes to be a pioneering design team. He will takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of their most acclaimed pr

1:30pm - 2:30pm

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Floral Design Sustainably
Say goodbye to importing flowers from abroad and discover how to use what we have around us, with leading floral designer Shane Connolly and cut flower grower Fionnuala Fallon.

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Plant Exploration Today
Modern day plant explorer and renowned plantsman Neil Porteous talks on plant exploration around the world and the thousands of new species which are still being discovered in remote places every year.

3.00pm - 4.00pm

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A Deep Dive into Gardening in the Dappled Shade
Go on an inspiring journey with creative plantsman, Jimi Blake, to discover exhilarating planting combinations for woodland and shady areas.

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Goddess in the Landscape
The awareness of female energy in the landscape of Ireland is rising amongst us all: Manchán Magan will explain.