News & Events
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Heritage & Irish Daffodils Walk & Talk
Assumpta Broomfield & Mary O’Brien. This Saturday 18th April 2015, 12.00. Noon. Tour of the garden and talk and also - Displays of flowering heritage bulbs in pots.
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Assumpta Broomfield Snowdrop Expert
Assumpta Broomfield will be giving a Walk and Talk around the garden on February 22nd at 12 noon.
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The gardens at Burtown will reopen this February
The gardens at Burtown will reopen this February 8th - February 22nd from 10.00am-4pm daily. The gardens will then reopen for the season on April 12th 2014.
The gardens and woodland are full of old varieties of snowdrops in natural plantings, with large swathes of aconites, hellebores, cyclamen, and early bulbs.
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Culture Night / Weekend at Burtown
On Saturday 21st September at 12.00pm there will be a free tour of the gardens. At 3.00pm Eileen MacDonagh will give a walk and talk about her stone sculpture which is set in the meadow walks.
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Carlow Garden Festival: Saturday 27th July - Monday 5th August
Sunday July 28th - Visit the gardens at Burtown in the company of Seamus O’Brien curator of Kilmacurragh Botanical Gardens. This informative walk and talk will focus on plant identification, cultivation, pests / diseases and the use of plants in garden design. The walk starts at 12.00pm and entrance costs €10.00