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The Homeland store in Ballina has been named the DIY Garden Centre of the Year at Bord Bia’s Garden Industry Awards.

The Irish Red Cross is appealing to Galway gardening enthusiasts to take part in Open Gardens 2014.

The Organic Gardener recently won two prestigious awards at events held in Galway. The company won an award in the Best of Galway Awards in the home and garden section. Meanwhile Fergus Whitney, director of the business, won a Junior Chamber award for moral and environmental leadership.

Renowned gardener Lorna McMahon will once again open her garden, Ardcarraig, to the public on the last three Sundays in May in aid of the Galway Mental Health Association.

At the newly established Clare Garden Festival, which will be held on the last Sunday in April, visitors can expect an impressive programme of expert talks, a great garden, an artisan food fair with stallholders from all over Ireland, music, children's gardening and entertainment, and a gardeners’ raffle in aid of Clare Crusaders.

The Garden School offers courses in horticulture and gardening and is an approved exam centre for Royal Horticultural Society Qualifications.

A free hedging advice weekend will take place this Saturday and Sunday September 15 and 16 in all Horkan’s Garden Centre stores.

Ireland’s four main horticulture industry associations — the Association of Landscape Contractors of Ireland (ALCI), the Garden Centre Association of Ireland (GCAI), the Irish Hardy Nursery Stock Association (IHNSA), and the Garden and Landscape Designer Association of Ireland (GLDA), in conjunction with Bord Bia, are encouraging garden centres, and landscape and garden designers in Galway to take part in an autumn gardening campaign this September. The campaign aims to encourage and educate people on the advantages of gardening during the autumn. Planning is already under way for a number of exciting events and activities due to take place across the country.

Minister of State for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring officially launched the Clew Bay Garden Trail on Friday last. The concept of the trail was drawn up by a number of local residents and garden enthusiasts and gives a unique opportunity to visitors and local people to view a varied selection of private gardens in Mayo.

The wonderful smell of Christmas is in the air with the arrival of the first shipment of Nordman fir Christmas trees at Dangan House Garden Centre.