Bloom Event Schedule 2025*

*Event timetable is subject to change

 

 

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Garden Stage - sponsored by Zarbee's

11:00 - 11:45
Thu May 29th

Diarmuid Gavin

My Plot and Other Garden Stories

12:00 - 12:30
Thu May 29th

Andrew Wilson, Mark Gregory, Karen Foley, Paul Maher and Feargus McGarvey – Show Garden Judges

In conversation with Bloom Garden Judges on Judging Show Gardens

12:45 - 13:30
Thu May 29th

Adam Frost

Where do I start, new to gardening

13:45 - 14:15
Thu May 29th

Garden Stage Sponsor Zarbee’s – Leonie Cornelius

Gardening for Wild + Well

14:30 - 15:15
Thu May 29th

Creating The Most Beautiful Plant Combinations In The Garden

Jimi Blake from Hunting Brook Gardens

15:30 - 16:00
Thu May 29th

Mary Keenan, Gash Gardens and The Irish Garden

How to plant a garden - creative plant combinations for year round interest

Dunnes Stores Quality Kitchen Stage

10:15 - 11:00
11:30 - 12:15
Thu May 29th

Brian McDermott, Chef and Cookbook Author

Recipes for the season

12:45 - 13:30
14:00 - 14:45
15:15 - 16:00
16:30 - 17:15
Thu May 29th

Edward Hayden, TV Chef and Cookbook Author

Edward's summer favourites

Horticulture Is Life Stage

10:00 - 10:30
Thu May 29th

Mushrooms the Fascinating Fungi

Donal Gernon and Joy Clarke

10:30 - 13:30
Thu May 29th

Incredible Edibles School Tours

Deirdre Doyle

14:00 - 14:30
14:40 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:00
Thu May 29th

Why should you study horticulture?

William Kenny

Seafood Kitchen

11:00 - 12:00
Thu May 29th

Trisha Lewis

Cooking demo

13:00 - 14:00
Thu May 29th

Trisha Lewis

Cooking demo

15:00 - 16:00
Thu May 29th

Trisha Lewis

Cooking demo

Sustainable Living Stage

10:30 - 11:00
Thu May 29th

“Food waste to Fertiliser” How to create the circular economy

Harp Renewables - Gerry McDonnell & Joe Cowley

11:15 - 12:00
Thu May 29th

Greener Living – Cleaning and Gardening with Fewer Chemicals

Mywaste.ie - Pauline McDonogh, Regional Waste Planning Officer, with Eimear Hutchinson, social media influencer and communications manager in agricultural research.

12:15 - 13:00
Thu May 29th

Ireland’s Garden Birds

BirdWatch Ireland - Niall Hatch

13:15 - 14:00
Thu May 29th

Circular economy, sustainable solutions

European Commission & Zoe Kavanagh, CEO Repak

14:15 - 14:45
15:00 - 15:30
Thu May 29th

Seals of Ireland

Seal Rescue Ireland - Nicole Doyle

15:45 - 16:30
Thu May 29th

Is Buying Irish Food More Sustainable? Origin Green & Bord Bia Insights, Rising Food Prices, Buy less buy better

Grace Binchy, Bord Bia Trends & Insight Specialist, Thia Hennessy, Professor of Agri-Food Economics at UCC, Katie Davies, Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Institute, Fiona Ward, Healthy Ireland.

16:45 - 17:15
Thu May 29th

The value of native plant species in the garden

National Biodiversity Data Centre - Ruth Wilson

Budding Bloomers Stage

09:30 - 09:55
10:10 - 10:35
Thu May 29th

Story Time with Aisling Breen

Aisling Breen

10:50 - 11:15
Thu May 29th

Healthy Heros

Talk

11:30 - 11:55
12:10 - 12:35
Thu May 29th

Healthy Heros

Healthy Heros

12:50 - 13:15
Thu May 29th

Musical Fun with The Bloom Buskers

The Bloom Buskers

13:30 - 13:55
14:10 - 14:35
Thu May 29th

Planting Fun With Paddy Courtney

Paddy Courtney

14:50 - 15:15
Thu May 29th

Westcountry Willow

Westcountry Willow

15:30 - 15:55
16:00 - 16:25

Entertainment Stage

12:30 - 13:00
Thu May 29th

Larabel

Busker

13:15 - 14:00
Thu May 29th

Bobby Mc

Jazz

14:15 - 15:00
Thu May 29th

Those Empty Vessels

Folk

15:15 - 16:00
Thu May 29th

The Tea Lane Jazz Band

Jazz

16:15 - 17:00
Thu May 29th

The Liberty Boys

Traditional

Agri Aware Farm Feature

12:00
Thu May 29th

Agri Aware – Shearing

Shearing demonstration

13:00
15:00
16:00
Thu May 29th

Agri Aware Shearing

Shearing demonstration

Botanical Hub Demo Space

10:15 - 11:00
Thu May 29th

Bloom of Summer – Designs for your Home in Garden

Floral Art with A.O.I.F.A.

11:20 - 12:10
Thu May 29th

TBC Make a Floral Crown Drop-in Workshop

Institute of Flowers

12:30 - 13:00
Thu May 29th

Things I Wish I Knew at the Start of My Houseplant Journey

Erin Thomas, Hopeless Botanics

13:15 - 14:00
Thu May 29th

Practical Care of Orchids in the Home

Irish Orchid Society

14:15 - 14:45
Thu May 29th

Make a Buttonhole Drop-in Workshop

Institute of Flowers

15:00 - 16:45
Thu May 29th

Bloom of Summer – Designs for your Home in Garden

Floral Art with A.O.I.F.A.

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